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B. Levi Ball House; Bannerman House; Thomas and Maria Blackman Bartlett House; Barton Hall (Alabama) Bass-Morrell House; Bass–Perry House; Bates-Geers House
Barrington Hall is one classic example of an antebellum home.. Antebellum architecture (from Antebellum South, Latin for "pre-war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. [1]
Residential buildings completed in 1840 (2 C, 3 P) S. ... Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in 1840" The following 56 pages are in this category ...
By the middle of the 19th century, with the invention of the steam-powered scroll saw, the mass production of thin boards that were cut into a variety of ornamental parts had helped builders to transform simple cottages into unique houses. At the time, standard sized gingerbread elements were manufactured at low cost in the American East Coast.
In Missouri I-houses were built from about 1820 to 1890. The style was brought to the US by the Scots-Irish. Because of the popularity and simple form of the I-house, decorative elements of popular architectural styles were often used. Through the 1840s, front porches and any decoration were primarily designed in the restrained Federal manner.
The Millford Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1840. The style was employed in ecclesiastical, institutional, and residential buildings. Virtually all the buildings in the style are characterized by the use of columns or pilasters, usually from the Greek orders. "Bilateral symmetry is the rule," with the main portion of the buildings being "block ...
In his grand mansion in upstate New York, he had indoor plumbing (a luxury in 1840s America), a bathtub made of malachite and a toilet bowl made of Wedgwood, a fine English porcelain.
Regarded as one of the finest examples of Greek Revival residential architecture in the United States. [16] Another house type, the Creole cottage, came from the areas along the Gulf Coast and its associated rivers that were formerly part of New France. It was always one-and-a-half stories, with a side-gabled roof, and often had upper floor ...