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What Style of Homes can you Find for Sale in Columbus
July 1st, 2008 categories: About Me?, Bexley, Clintonville, German Village, Grandview, Real Estate News, Short North
As fascinated as I am in home styles, I’m no architect. When I describe the architecture of my listings or homes I am showing, I find it helps buyers appreciate their value. While they both have “old brick homes,” Victorian Village and German Village have very different housing stock. Although I can tell a cupola from a parapet, or an eyebrow window from a palladian, I’m sometimes stumped or unsure and don’t like to throw something out there for the sake of looking like I know what I’m talking about.
July is home styles month here on Columbus Homes Blog and I’ll be reviewing different styles with intermittent posts over the coming weeks. Every house, no matter how plain, has a style. Style comes in part from ornamental details like columns and moldings and in part from structural features, such as the placement of the windows and the pitch of the roof. Yet, identifying that style can be a baffling process. Is it Spanish Colonial or Mediterranean Italianate or Federal And, what about the newly constructed home that seems to break all the “rules”
Most houses do not fit precisely into any one category. Older homes may have gone through many renovations, taking on the features of several different architectural trends. Newer homes often combine ideas from a variety of styles and historic periods. Details help to give homes style, character and romance. In Columbus, you can find many different styles in many different neighborhoods and while there may be more to choose from in Clintonville than Hilliard, even a newer community has homes with character.
More often than not, I find other Realtors, especially suburban Realtors, have no idea what style a home is. Painting a broad stroke here, to tell the style of a home begin by closely observing a few key characteristics. This simple checklist below identifies some main features to look for. Although there are no pat answers, each of these features suggests styles to consider.
1. What shape is the house, overall
- Rectangular and symmetrical: National, Colonial, Neoclassical, Greek Revival, Italianate
- Square and box-like: American Foursquare
- L-shaped: Folk and National styles
- Complicated and asymmetrical: Queen Anne and other Victorian styles, Chateauesque
- Rounded corners: Pueblo, Art Moderne
- Single story or 1½ story: Cape Cod, Ranch, Craftsman, Cottage styles
2. Does the roof have any of these features
- Unusually steep pitch: Gothic Revival and other Victorian styles, Tudor
- Unusually low pitch: Craftsman, Prairie, Ranch, Monterey, and Spanish styles
- Flat: Italianate, Beaux Arts, Pueblo, Mediterranean, and Modernistic
- Gambrel: Dutch Colonial
- Mansard: Second Empire and other French-inspired styles
- Hipped: American Foursquare, Colonial styles, Victorian styles
- Salt box: Colonial
- Flared eaves: French styles, Craftsman, Prairie
- Round towers: Queen Anne, Romanesque, Chateauesque, French styles
- Cupolas: Italianate, Greek Revival, Second Empire
- Rounded parapets: Mission
3. Is the house sided with any of these materials
- Adobe: Pueblo, Monterey, Spanish Colonial Revival
- Stucco: Mission, Tudor, Spanish styles
- Rough stone: Romanesque
- Patterned wood shingles: Victorian styles
- Half-timbering: Tudor, Stick, Queen Anne
- Cedar shingles: Victorian Shingle, Craftsman, Tudor
4. Does the house have any of these window types
- Multi-paned: Adam, Georgian, Neoclassical
- Diamond-paned: Tudor, Prairie
- Palladian: Adam, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical
- Round or elliptical: Adam, Neoclassical
- Oriel: Tudor, Gothic Revival, Chateauesque
- Casement: Tudor, Craftsman, Dutch Colonial, Spanish styles, modern styles
- Pointed: Gothic Revival
- Rounded with “eyebrow” hoods: Italianate
- Fanlights: Adam, Neoclassical, Colonial Revival
5. Do you notice any of these details
- Dentil moldings: Georgian, Adam, Colonial styles
- Garlands or floral ornaments: Federal, Adam, Beaux Arts
- Turned spindles: Queen Anne, Carpenter Gothic, Folk Victorian
- Zigzags or chevrons: Art Deco
- Shutters: Cape Cod and other Colonial styles
- Round, fluted columns: Greek Revival, Adam, Neoclassical, Beaux Arts
- Square or trapezoid porch supports: Craftsman, Prairie, Mission, American Foursquare
- Little or no ornamentation: National and Folk styles, Cape Cod, Ranch, Modern styles
*This post has beenn Adapted from an article by BY JACKIE CRAVEN that appears on realtor.org from a post circa January 1, 2004.