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Colorado's Historic Architecture & Engineering - Web Guide

This web guide is intended to complement the Field Guide to Colorado's Historic Architecture & Engineering.  It is for users needing a quick reference with other relevant web links.  Categories are organized as:

  • Materials
  • Styles
  • Forms
  • Special Use Types

 

Materials

Hispano Adobe -- Linear Plan House   Sod Construction
Hispano Adobe -- Center Passage House   Territorial Adobe
Pioneer Log    

Styles

Art Deco   Mission
Beaux Arts   Moderne
Carpenter Gothic   Novelty
Chateauesque   Prairie
Classical Revival   Pueblo Revival
Collegiate Gothic   Queen Anne
Colonial Revival   Renaissance Revival
Craftsman   Romanesque Revival - Richardsonian Romanesque
Dutch Colonial Revival   Rustic
Edwardian   Second Empire
English-Norman Cottage   Shingle
Exotic Revivals   Spanish Colonial Revival
Googie   Swiss Chalet
Gothic Revival   Tudor Revival
Greek Revival   Usonian
International Style   WPA Art Deco
Italianate   WPA Moderne
Jacobean/Elizabethan   WPA Modernist
Mediterranean Revival   WPA Rustic

Forms

A-Frame   I-House
Basement House   Lustron
Bi-Level   Minimal Traditional
Bungalow   Neo-Mansard
Cape Cod   Ranch
Central Passage Double-Pile Residence   Split-Level
Classic Cottage   Terrace
Early High Rise   Vernacular Architecture Guidance (PDF)
Foursquare    

Special Use Types

Barns & Agricultural Structures -- Bank Barn   Commercial -- False Front Commercial
Barns & Agricultural Structures -- Round-Roof Barn   Commercial -- House with Commercial Addition
Barns & Agricultural Structures -- Transverse Frame Barn   Gas Stations -- House with Canopy
Bridges -- Timber Stringer   Gas Stations -- Cottage
Commercial -- Nineteenth-Century   Gas Stations -- Oblong Box
Commercial -- Early Twentieth Century   Privies -- WPA Privy

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