Styles

1. 1625–1725First PeriodThe oldest houses: post-and-beam frames, steep roofs and one great chimney.2 buildings with a page · 2 more in the inventory
2. 1700–1790ColonialThe plain central-chimney and gambrel houses of the 1700s, built by the pattern rather than the pattern book.45 buildings with a page · 54 more in the inventory
3. 1720–1790GeorgianSymmetry arrives: the five-bay front, the centered door and the classical cornice.69 buildings with a page · 96 more in the inventory
4. 1780–1830FederalNewburyport's signature style: the three-story brick house, the fanlight and the balustraded hip roof.149 buildings with a page · 243 more in the inventory
5. 1825–1860Greek RevivalThe house turns its gable to the street and puts on a temple front.80 buildings with a page · 310 more in the inventory
6. 1840–1880Gothic RevivalPointed arches and steep gables, from board-and-batten cottages to polychrome churches.9 buildings with a page · 15 more in the inventory
7. 1840–1930Renaissance RevivalThe Italian palazzo as a model: a symmetrical block with a heavy cornice and arched windows.1 building with a page
8. 1845–1885ItalianateBrackets under the eaves, tall windows with hoods, and the downtown brick blocks of the 1850s to 1880s.100 buildings with a page · 411 more in the inventory
9. 1860–1885Second EmpireThe mansard roof: a full extra story hidden under a steep, dormered slope.32 buildings with a page · 9 more in the inventory
10. 1860–1890StickBoards applied over the clapboards to suggest the frame inside.2 buildings with a page
11. 1860–1900Victorian EclecticLate-nineteenth-century houses that borrow from several styles at once.19 buildings with a page · 161 more in the inventory
12. 1880–1905Queen AnneAsymmetry, towers, patterned shingles and a porch that wraps the corner.47 buildings with a page · 91 more in the inventory
13. 1880–1905ShingleA continuous skin of shingles pulled over broad roofs and simple, massive forms.1 building with a page
14. 1880–1900Richardsonian RomanesqueRough-faced stone and deep round arches, in the manner of H. H. Richardson.1 building with a page · 2 more in the inventory
15. 1880–1955Colonial RevivalThe old town's own styles revived: Georgian and Federal forms at a larger scale.15 buildings with a page · 78 more in the inventory
16. 1895–1930Classical RevivalMonumental columns and porticos, for banks, public buildings and a few grand houses.5 buildings with a page · 1 more in the inventory
17. 1905–1930CraftsmanLow roofs, deep porches and exposed rafters: the bungalow and the foursquare.4 buildings with a page · 52 more in the inventory
18. Since 1945Postwar TraditionalCapes, colonials and ranches built after 1945 in a simplified traditional dress.1 building with a page · 2 more in the inventory
19. Any periodVernacularBuildings built to a plain builder's pattern, with the trim of no particular style.24 buildings with a page

Bars show when each style's buildings were built:Before 17751775–18301830–18601860–19001900–1945Since 1945

Styles are as recorded on each building's page; where a page names two styles, the building is listed under the one that fits its date. Dates are the years the style was usual nationally; each style page says when Newburyport built it.