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Architecture

Annapolis is definitely a melting pot.... there are so many different styles here!

One of the things that makes Annapolis unique is that there is no cookie-cutter architecture here!   Check out the many different styles we have here in our city! These are all pictures I took from homes right here in our neighborhoods.  If you have a home that has a different architecture style that isn't here, please email it to me and we'll include it! 
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ARTS & CRAFTS: Arts & Crafts style homes prevalent in Eastport was a British & American movement to revive handicrafts. Evident in Annapolis in the early 19th century.

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BUNGALOWS OF EASTPORT: The Bungalow is a one story house, small with an open or enclosed front entrance. Usually made of wood. This Eastport Bungalow was once a general store.
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CAPE COD OF EASTPORT: A small symmetrical 1 ½ story house with central entrance and steep gable roof. Popular because it was easy to build and economical.
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COTTAGE: The Cottage is distinguished by its brick front, steep gable roof, small dormer windows. Although original design was from England starting in the early 11th Century
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DUTCH COLONIAL: Dutch Colonials are prominent in Murray Hill. Typically a 2 story to 2 ½ story with a gambrel roof and eves that flare outward. Other features include double hung windows & Dutch front entrance door. This style is indigenous to America.
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EASTPORT FARMHOUSE
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FEDERAL STYLE: This Federal style house is multistory, symmetrical & box shaped. Typically constructed of brick or clapboard, has at least one chimney protruding through the roof and windows with small glass panes. This is an early style house from 1780-1830.
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FEDERAL: Here's another example of a Federal Style home
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GEORGIAN STYLE: The Paca House was built in the Georgian style architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.
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GREEK REVIVAL:In Annapolis the Greek Revival style is not well represented because in the early nineteenth century, when the it was fashionable, the city was in a period of economic decline. The State House is one of the few in the city.This style copied the Greek temples with columns, architraves, friezes and cornices. This style was prominent in the late 18th century and early 19th century in the US.
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ITALIANATE: The Italianate style house has gently sloping roof, overhanging eaves supported by decorative brackets, exterior is primarily brick, narrow windows with balustrade balconies, front doors introduced with glass inserts. Built in the mid to late 19th Century
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PALLADIAN STYLE: Palladian architecture was named after the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580). Hammond-Harwood House is the only existing work of colonial academic architecture that was principally designed from a plate in Andrea Palladio’s Quattro Libri. The house was designed by the architect William Buckland in 1773–74. It was modeled on the design of the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy in Book II, Chapter XIV of I Quattro Libri dell’Achitettura. (Thanks wikipedia!)
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PRAIRIE HOUSE IN EASTPORT: This early twentieth century American house in Eastport is long with a low roof line and rows of windows. The house design is of individual areas of size, varying light and function unlike the traditional rooms. Frank Lloyd Wright dominated the period of time as a contemporary designer
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QUEEN ANNE: Originally designed in England, the Queen Anne style started in the US in 1870. Some features that distinguish the Queen Anne house are; the wrap around porches with turned posts & decorative brackets, differing window sizes, asymmetrical façade, bay windows, turrets, projecting gable and second floor balcony.
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SALTBOX: This is a typical 2 ½ story Saltbox Colonial distinguished by square or rectangular shape, steep gable roof that extends down to the first floor. Features include clapboard construction, large double hung windows & large centralized chimney. No windows in the rear was to ward off the cold winter winds
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SECOND EMPIRE: The Second Empire is distinguished by its Mansard Roof, a double Parisian slope. Americans in the mid 19th Century were looking for a change and wanted what was in vogue.
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SHIPLAP: The Shiplap House on Pinkney Street is so named for it's shiplap siding. Sorry Chip and Joanna, this shiplap is circa 1715
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EASTPORT SHOTGUN: The Shotgun House built primarily in the early twentieth century was a long narrow 1 story house with front porch, whose gable roof faces the street. A vent is on the front of the gable and frequently column bracket ornamentation. The Shotgun House name came from the idea that ”if you shoot into the front door you will hit something in the back yard”.
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TUDOR REVIVAL: Unique to the Historic District is this Tudor Revival style with two front gables & Tudor front arch a simpler version of the English Tudor homes. Popular in the US in the late 1800’2s and the early 1920’s. The original Tudor style of the 16th Century had medieval pane windows, oriel windows, bay windows and a porte cochere.
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VERNACULAR: Throughout the City of Annapolis and especially in the Historic District there are houses that are of the Vernacular Style, which were built between 1837-1930. Vernacular is defined as an architectural style that was designed based on local needs, availability of construction materials and reflecting local traditions. A non-professional architect or no architect at all would have designed it. Some may have incorporated features of other styles without designing the house in that style.
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VICTORIAN: This 19th Century American High Victorian is distinguished by its square shape with symmetrical bays in the front, small chimney protruding through the roof and narrow columns supporting a entablature. Originally from England popular in Italy where it influenced some of the features.

    Have a building you'd like us to research in Annapolis?  Send us a picture and we'll do our best to figure it out for you!

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