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  2. List of architectural styles - Wikipedia

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    Frederick C. Robie House, an example of Prairie School architecture. An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable. A style may include such elements as form, method of construction, building materials, and regional character.

  3. Category : Buildings and structures completed in 1920

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    C. Cadiz Downtown Historic District; California Theatre (Pittsburg, California) Camp Four (Fort Smith, Montana) The Cenotaph; Chatham Naval Memorial; Chattri, Brighton

  4. Category : Buildings and structures completed in the 1920s

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    Buildings and structures completed in 1920 (20 C, 134 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1921 (21 C, 130 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1922 (21 C, 115 P)

  5. Googie architecture - Wikipedia

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    Classic Googie sign at Warren, Ohio drive-in. Googie's beginnings are with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s. [16] Alan Hess, one of the most knowledgeable writers on the subject, writes in Googie: Ultra Modern Road Side Architecture that mobility in Los Angeles during the 1930s was characterized by the initial influx of the automobile and the service industry that evolved to ...

  6. Art Deco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As a result, the United States soon took the lead in building tall buildings. The first skyscrapers had been built in Chicago in the 1880s in the Beaux-Arts or neoclassical style. In the 1920s, New York City architects used the new Art Deco style to build the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. The Empire State building was the ...

  7. Category:1920s architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    H. Hall of Justice (Los Angeles) Hanalei Elementary School; Hawaii Theatre; Heinsbergen Decorating Company Building; Herman Building; Hollyhock House; Hollywood Athletic Club

  8. Storybook architecture - Wikipedia

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    Harry Oliver's Spadena House (1921), also known as the Witch's House, Beverly Hills, California. Storybook architecture or fairytale architecture is a style popularized in the 1920s in England and the United States. Houses built in this style may be referred to as storybook houses.

  9. Cliff May - Wikipedia

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    California Ranch-style modern house Cliff May (1903–1989) [ 1 ] was a building designer (he was not licensed as an architect until the last year of his life) practicing in California best known and remembered for developing the suburban Post-war "dream home" ( California Ranch House ), and the Mid-century Modern