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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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`
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
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