1. Architectural Styles
It’s all in the details

2. Architectural Styles in Elgin
• Greek Revival • Queen Anne
• Gothic Revival • Shingle Style
• Federal • Colonial Revival
• Folk • Georgian
• Italianate • Tudor Revival
• Second Empire • Neoclassical
• Stick Style • Craftsman
• Prairie

3. Greek Revival 1825-1860
• Front gable shaped to look like the
pedimented façade of a Greek Temple
• Small attic windows (frieze band windows)
• Front door surrounded by narrow sidelights
and transom
• Cornice emphasized with a wide board

4. Greek Revival
Pedimented façade of a Greek Temple

5. Greek Revival
Italianate influenced brackets
Front facing
gable
Multiple
pained
windows
Front door surrounded by side lites 162 College
and transom

6. Greek Revival
1934 HABS
Door with side
lites and transom
443 E. Chicago

7. Egyptian Revival 1830-1850
118 Tennyson

8. Gothic Revival 1840-1880
• Steeply pitched roof
• Front facing gables
• Steep cross gables
• Decorated verge boards
• Pointed, arched windows
• Open cornices with rafters exposed

9. Gothic Revival
Steeply pitched cross gables Drip mold
Verge Board
Pointed Arch
Windows
Front facing
gable
Rafters
exposed
373 Park Quatrefoil

10. Gothic Revival
277 Gifford Pl.
Verge boards
Clustered 373 Park
Pointed arch Drip mold
columns

11. Gothic Revival
Steeply pitched cross
gables
Pointed arch
windows
402 N. Spring

12. Gothic Revival
Spire pointing to the Gods
Steeply pitched roof
Verge board
Open rafters
155 S. Gifford Carriage House

13. Gothic Revival
Pointed arch
Parapet gable end
wall - Flemish
Renaissance
influence
Gothic influenced brackets
- quatrefoil 552 E. Chicago

14. Italianate 1840 -1885
• Low pitched, hipped roof • Tall narrow windows
• Symmetrical façade • Porch posts often square
• Often cubic in form with chamfered edges
• Widely overhanging eaves • Large pane of glass in
• Decorative brackets front door
• Heavily rounded crowns • Heavy spindles on porches
on windows and doors or no balustrade (porch
railing) at all

15. Italianate
Hipped
roof
Brackets
Cubical in
form
Chamfered
posts
434 E. Chicago

16. Italianate Gothic
influenced
roof - steep
and cross
gabled
Paired
brackets
Balustraded
porch roof Tall windows
with round
tops
Heavy spindles
Glass in
the doors 155 S. Gifford

17. Italianate Porch Post
Common brackets
in Elgin
Stop Chamfer
156 S. Gifford

18. Italianate
Heavy window
hoods
Segmented arch
Large pain of glass in the doors
Paired brackets

19. Italianate
364 E. Chicago
155 S. Gifford

20. Second Empire –1855-1885
• Mansard Roof (dual pitched hipped roof)
• Dormer windows on lower slope
• Often have patterned shingles in the roof
and cresting

21. Second Empire
363 Prairie
Dormer
windows
Mansard
roof
Quoins
Decorative
Cobblestones
brackets

22. Dormer
Second Empire Window
Mansard
Roof
Decorative
Corbels
Oriel Bay
The Murphy House 327 DuPage

23. Second Empire
Rinceau
316 Kimball

24. 260 Gifford Pl.
Second Empire
317 Raymond
117 Tennyson Ct.

25. Stick Style 1860-1890
• Cross gabled steeply pitched roof
• Decorative trusses in the gable
• Wooden wall cladding interrupted by
patterns of horizontal, vertical or diagonal
boards raised from the wall surfaces for
emphasis (stickwork)
• Porches have diagonal braces

26. Stick style
Stickwork
Eastlake and Queen
Anne influences
259 Villa

27. Stick Style
Stickwork
Queen Anne
influence
126 Hill

28. Colonial Revival 1880-1955
• Accentuated front door with decorative
crown, pediment, pilasters, fanlights and
sidelights
• Symmetrical
• Corner pilasters
• Dentils and modillions

29. Colonial Revival
107 N. Porter

30. Colonial Revival
Dentils
Pilasters
Bay window 34 N. Porter

31. 34 N. Porter
Colonial Revival

32. Colonial Revival
Accentuated
front door
Broken
Pediment
Pilasters
409 DuPage

33. Colonial Revival
Dentils
Pilaster
Bay Window 16 Rugby Pl.

34. Tudor Revival 1890-1940
• Steeply pitched roof
• Front facing gable
• One or more cross gables
• Half Timbering
• Tall windows with multiple panes
• Massive chimney

35. Tudor Revival
Half timbering

36. Front facing Large
gable Tudor Revival chimney
427 DuPage

37. Tudor Revival
Half timbering
Massive Chimney Cross gables
Steeply
pitched roof
Front Facing gable
1182 Cedar

38. Georgian 1700-1830
• Paneled front door with decorative crown
supported by pilasters
• Cornice emphasized by decorative moldings
such as dentils
• Windows in symmetrical rows

39. Georgian
Small panes Pediment Pilasters
4 S. Gifford

40. Interesting Details at 4 S. Gifford

41. Georgian
Paneled
door
Dentils

42. Neoclassical 1895-1950
• Full height porch with classic columns
• Symmetrical

43. Neoclassical
Pediment
Full Height porch
Classic Ionic
columns
Symmetrical
402 River Bluff

44. Queen Anne 1880-1910
• Irregular shape – no symmetry
• Patterned shingles
• Bay windows
• Towers
• Several different materials to make different wall
textures
• Half have delicate turned porch posts
• Lacy, decorative spandrels
• Gingerbread and Eastlake detailing

45. Queen Anne
Asymmetrical
Several textures
Tower
Patterned shingles
Original porch had
turned posts
409 Douglas

46. Queen Anne
Patterned
shingles
Different
textures
No symmetry
Decorative
spandrel
Turned post
470 Park

47. Free Classic Queen Anne
• 35 % of Queen Anne's
• Classical columns and no spindle work
• Palladian windows
• Cornice line dentils

48. Palladian
Window
Dentils
Classical
columns
Free Classic Queen Anne 426 Prairie

49. Free Classic Queen Anne
Shingle style influence
Dentils
Asymmetrical
Tower
Art glass
Classic columns and
no spindle work
600 E. Chicago

50. Folk Houses 1850-1890
• Designed without a conscious attempt to
mimic current fashion
• Built to provide basic shelter with little
regard for changing fashion`

51. Folk Style
436 Fulton 128 Hilton

52. Folk Style
432 North
389 Prairie

53. Folk Style
368 Prairie
380 Prairie

54. Shingle Style 1880 - 1900
• Irregular steeply pitched roof
• Large porches
• Shingle walls without corner boards
• Asymmetrical façade
• Decorative detailing used sparingly
• Often have a tower
• Porch posts are often clad in Shingles
• Most commonly found in coastal New England

55. Shingle Style Steeply
pitched roof
Shingles
without corner
boards
Tower
Posts clad in
shingles 33 N. Porter

56. Shingle Style
Shingles
without
corner
boards
Porch posts clad in
shingles 419 DuPage

57. Tower
Shingle Style
Asymmetrical
Irregular,
steeply
pitched roof
Large porch
303 River Bluff

58. Craftsman 1905 - 1930
• Low pitched roof
• Wide, unenclosed overhang
• Roof rafters exposed
• Decorative beams or braces commonly
added under the roof
• Tapered, square porch columns often
extending to ground level

59. Craftsman
Wide overhang
Low pitched
roof
Tapered, square
porch columns
often extending
to ground level
155 N. Channing

60. Craftsman Decorative
braces under
the roof
Unenclosed
overhang
375 North

61. Prairie 1900-1920
• Low pitched roof, usually hipped
• Widely overhanging eaves
• Emphasis on horizontal lines
• Massive square porch posts
• Geometric patterns of ssmall-panme
window glazing

62. Prairie Large overhangs
Hipped roof
Massive square Stained glass
porch posts Horizontal lines 54-56 N. Liberty

63. Prairie
Stucco
Low porch
emphasizing the
horizontal
Massive square
porch post
155 S. Gifford

64. Prairie Low pitched,
hipped roof
Widely
overhanging
eaves
Horizontal
lines
259 River Bluff

65. Italian Renaissance 1890-1935
Low pitched hipped roof of clay tiles
Asymmetrical
Arches above
doors
Prairie Influence
Small wings
940 Douglas

66. 121 Villa Bungalow 107 Geneva
109 Geneva 250 S. Channing

67. American Foursquare
Sub group of Prairie 1900-1920
• Hipped roof
• Simple square plan
• Symmetrical façade with front entry
centered or off center
• Hipped dormers
• Full width single story porches

68. American Foursquare
Hipped dormer
Hipped roof
Symmetrical
facade
Simple square
plan
Full width
porch
137 N. Channing