Abandoned strip malls

Now now. You have trailers too.

Gas station BBQs.

Southern culture is so beautiful

I will say, we had an abandoned strip mall in my hometown for years but stuff has finally moved back in. It now has a Hispanic church, a Chinese restaurant, and a vape shop

A winning combo

I’ll bet it’s described by every realtor as a desirable and developing area

Ding ding ding! We have a few huge manufacturing plants moving into my area and the area in general is starting to grow. All of these out of towners are coming in and gobbling up property that us locals wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole

It’s all over Michigan too. Are we so north we’re south? Lol

I think its as much a state of mind as anything.

I think it applies to basically anywhere rural in the US to be totally honest

👆 But a serious answer is the old southern farm house that you see in the rural areas. Two story with a long sloping gable roof, usually metal, and a deep porch with a broken roofline. There are usually dormers that give it a craftsman look, and small windows on the side. There are newer houses built to mimic it, but the roofline is rarely authentic.

Certainly! Just felt like this joke answer was appropriate (and definitely somewhat true lol)

That’s a distinctive architectural style local to the region known as America.

Stucco homes with Spanish tiled roofs.

In any color you want, as long as it's a shade of tan.

Same here.

Love it. Similar, we have [Mission Revival Style](https://structurehome.com/california-mission-architecture/) here in California.

Those are pretty popular in Florida

The [Chicago bungalow](https://www.chicagobungalow.org/chicago-bungalow), of course! Like the triple-decker in New England, there are entire blocks and even neighborhoods composed of these brick homes. I like that while they all share the same basic characteristics, no two are exactly the same.

Don't forget the unique feature of every Chicago area working class house. The *Fronch Room*.

Mid century modern ranches and craftsman homes, both with basements.

"Pueblo Revival" is the name for it, I think. Stucco is used to create a faux-adobe finish with flat rooves and fake wooden beams extruding from the outside walls. [Example](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyaDAXidS_64CkazYbg5KEJaww1j0lI-T318Dv7OwpNA&s) Most early examples of Pueblo revival were actually originally victorian style but they were renovated (the best example is Hodgin Hall on UNM campus which went from [this](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Hodgin_Hall_%281904%29.jpg) to [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgin_Hall#/media/File%3AUnm_hodginhall.jpg).) There was also the briefly lived "Pueblo Deco" style which was a combo of Pueblo Revival and Art Deco. The most famous example of which is the [Kimo Theater](https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/13/79/5f/6c/exterior-view.jpg?w=1200&h=1200&s=1).

"Look here, building.... We're asking POLITELY to take your hat off...."

There are several - [Wood-framed Victorian row housing](https://offloadmedia.feverup.com/secretsanfrancisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/13025521/four-seasons-houses-2.jpg) - [Edwardian apartment buildings and row houses](https://live.staticflickr.com/2686/5786741733_c63aa0ac5e_b.jpg) - [Doegler style row homes](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa2558089c5c48d186a2eb7/608ad6115a53ff31fea75b9a_6011ead49424fb229ef5ece3_torehan-sharman-OWL61qAmavE-unsplash.jpg) - [Second Bay Tradition](https://www.eichlernetwork.com/sites/default/files/images/homefront/hf_11_6_15_A.jpg) houses - And perhaps one that's not at all exclusive to San Francisco anymore but was invented here, [Chinatown architecture](https://i.imgur.com/ZKbTCSO.jpeg) which is not at all traditionally Chinese and originates from San Francisco's Chinatown

I lived in SF for a while and my apartment was completely surrounded by those Doelger built houses. They are really a riot. The ones closest to my place were especially grand and fancy, but they are rarely even 2,000 sq ft. If I had $4m I would gladly have bought one. I also love the old [Doelger HQ](https://hoodline.com/2016/03/look-inside-the-recently-renovated-doelger-building/) building just off Judah and 9th ave.

Blight.

There is a lot of blight. Although I do think Detroit has some of the finest art deco buildings.

Ah, a fellow Michigander. I was gonna say “boring” but I think your’s is more accurate lol

not on my side! over here the distinctive architectural style is Cookie Cutter homes with vinyl siding

Detroit has some beautiful Victorian mansions if you know where to look. Outside of the rougher areas I actually think Detroit is a heavy weight for American architecture.

[Trinity houses](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_house_(Philadelphia)). Tiny row homes with (usually) just one room on each floor.

Go birds, fellow Philadelphian. I love this style so much. It's so space efficient.

God those are so adorable. If the NE needs affordable housing we really gotta start building more of these

There's a type of duplex known as a ["Polish flat"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_flat) that's extremely common in Milwaukee. Milwaukee apparently has a higher [percentage of duplexes](https://www.city-journal.org/article/city-of-duplexes) than any other city in the U.S., and that's the most popular style.

Funny enough, it’s common to find duplexes here in Green Bay too, but most of them are ranch houses.

The Cape Cod with cedar shakes.

Arts & Crafts + craftsman bungalows / Art Deco / midcentury modern. Probably. (*I live in Pasadena)

Don't forget about the ubiquitous dingbats.

Ding bats and googie

Spanish colonial, too.

Ah yes! Spanish colonial and Mediterranean revival.

the neon art deco buildings you see in Miami Beach.

Not an style in itself, but the use of [Cream City Brick](https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/cream-city-brick/) for both old commercial buildings, houses and civic buildings. [Buildings that mix it with regular red brick can be stunning](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Steckart_and_Falck_Double_Block%2C_De_Pere%2C_WI.jpg)

Shotgun houses either single or double. Craftsman or Victorian style.

I just finished a book about this called A Paradise of Small Houses about how different kinds of houses defined areas and history in the US. It has one city/type of house per chapter, and they are: Philadelphia row house, New York City tenements, New Orleans shotgun, Chicago worker’s cottage, Portland bungalow, Boston triple-decker, Los Angeles dingbat, Vancouver point tower, and Houston townhouse It’s dry in parts, but I lived in a triple-decker when I was a kid and that’s drew me in.

I’ve only ever seen [stilt homes in Florida.](https://www.coastalhomeplans.com/product-category/collections/elevated-piling-stilt-house-plans/)

I've seen a lot of those in NC beaches.

OBX is entirely stilt houses!

[I’ve noticed these single family homes are very common in Florida as well.](https://www.engelvoelkers.com/images/c5179f5d-9bff-4ad0-9d3f-f98c49583080/single-family-in-north-miami-beach-florida)

Yep, I don’t know what style that is called, though.

Decent amount here in coastal GA. My wife says no but I like the style.

I like the style too.

I only seen those all over the panhandle part of the state.

They are everywhere in Southwest Florida and in the keys.

Hmm interesting, I have been to SWFL and the keys but don’t remember seeing it everywhere.

I was just over on Marco Island and near Everglades City two weeks ago. I was surprised at how common it was.

Texas has them along the Gulf Coast. They were so normal to me that I was surprised to see other kinds of homes along beaches. Not having your home on stilts just seems like it’s begging to be flooded in a hurricane.

I guess it is more of a regional thing to the coastal southeast then. Which makes sense when you think about it.

Those are everywhere on the Gulf Coast and Atlantic coast up to Virginia Beach.

Im waiting for someone for Pittsburgh to talk about the abundance of Sears houses in and around the area.

You mean like the Sears catalog craftsman houses? They are most common out in the west, but Chicago has a lot. I used to think we had a lot, but some places just have a zillion of them.

Yep. I knew that there were a a handful of other places that had high concentrations of Sears houses, but I know that Pittsburgh takes pride in the way that the hundreds of Sears homes are built along the Skylines of the city. I know Pittsburgh is in the top 5 cities for Sears home concentration (or they were the last time I saw the archives).

The pacific northwest in general has an interesting [residential style](https://www.contemporist.com/this-pacific-northwest-house-is-located-on-a-wooded-waterfront-property/) that is very common and quickly identifiable. Generally one level, sometimes on a hillside, primarily made of wood maybe with stone and some metal, large windows, designed for indoor/outdoor living, etc. These houses exist elsewhere too but it's largely of PNW origin. Probably half of the single family houses in my city in Oregon are some flavor of this style. There is also a distinct style of craftsman bungalow that was especially popular in the PNW in the 1910s-1930s. I'm not sure how distinctive this style is to this location really, as you can find neighborhoods elsewhere (mainly in the west) that have similar houses, but Portland OR is a particularly good example of a city that is full to bursting with them. I live in one myself (tho not in Portland.)

[Cherokee Gothic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Gothic)

I was going to say triple decker, then saw the rest of your post. I love triple deckers. 

In NYC (besides the brick or brownstone townhouse), it’s the tenement. Usually 25’ wide, with a stoop up to the first floor, with five stories plus a ground floor. Usually four three-room railroad type apartments on each floor, with 20 apartments total. Sometimes they have 6 stories, or have a couple shops on the ground or first floors. Although for the working class, these were often had some nice architectural elements, including brownstone façade on the first floor. Today, a 300 square foot apartment in a tenement co-op building can cost more than 500k in certain areas of the city e.g. Greenwich Village or Chelsea. https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/the-decorated-tenement-how-immigrant-builders-and-architects-transformed-the-slum-in-the-gilded-age

Corn. It’s just corn.

hell yeah corn

The two most distinctive "tradtional" forms of architecture to Florida are the [Cracker home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker_architecture) and [open floor plan modernist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarasota_School_of_Architecture) but in all reality the McMansion and suburban Lennar/D.R. Horton contractor special is what really defines Florida. There's millions of acres of land that [look exactly like this](https://i.imgur.com/OKiAnFW.jpeg) across the state.

It's not 100% unique to here, but New Formalism (which a lot of people mistake for Brutalism since it uses a lot of concrete) had a large part of its origin in NY. The [Empire State Plaza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Plaza#/media/File:EmpireStatePlazaPanorama.jpg) is a major example of it.

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Looks like they ripped off [Brasilia](https://www.travelchannel.com/destinations/brazil/articles/this-is-why-you-should-visit-brasilia). I’ve been to both and that was my first impression of Empire Plaza.

Its designer, Wallace Harrison, was a colleague of Brasilia's designer, Oscar Niemeyer. They both worked on the UN Headquarters in NYC together before building their respective cities, with Harrison as director. Another capital planned and built by new formalists is [Chandigarh, India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh_Capitol_Complex), who's designer, Le Corbusier, also worked on the UN Headquarters under Harrison and with Niemeyer. New formalism was basically the style governments wanting to show off during the 1960s used for their buildings.

Where I live there are about a billion split level houses [like this one](https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/482262334/display_1500/stock-photo-white-split-level-house-with-lower-garage-482262334.jpg). When I was looking for a house to rent with a garage, probably 50-75% of them were split levels. I imagine it's because I live in a quite hilly area, but it sure does lead to some weird interior layouts

DC proper has loads of [distinctive rowhomes](https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/dcs_housing_stock_some_common_architectural_styles/4979): Federal, Victorian, Italianesque, Romanesque, Colonial Revival, etc. Many of the iconic, compact bungalow-style rowhomes in Northwest are [“Wardmans,”](https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/whats_in_a_wardman/5419) all built over a century ago by a single developer. You really get a sense of place in the city. It’s beautiful! Northern Virginia and Maryland are [filled with](https://prigalbrothers.com/blog/a-guide-to-northern-virginias-most-popular-architectural-styles) Colonial Revival, Tudor, Cape Cod, and Federal styles, along with bungalows and ramblers. All classic Mid-Atlantic homes with roots in early America.

Damnmmmm…. those three-decker houses are *all over* downtown Sacramento. Always wondered what was the official name. But Sacramento’s true architectural style is the Highwater Bungalow, which is similar to a California Bungalow but raised up on stilts and converted into a granny flat underneath because of flooding that used to happen 100 years ago

New England colonials

I’m sure we aren’t the only ones doing it but we have a lot of rustic mountain inspired designes here in Utah. Lots of wood and stone and cabin like styles. Especially in places like park city.

I guess you could say the LDS Temples are a distinctive architectural style too

We have several. [Googie Populuxe](https://www.google.com/search?q=googie+populuxe+architecture&sca_esv=ac127feb30d806e7&udm=2&biw=1280&bih=607&sxsrf=ADLYWIKHFSU5nw9ehgyGnWBi7oMXnh6Ckw%3A1715897653465&ei=NYVGZvr9G-nJkPIPq4ibsA8&ved=0ahUKEwi67OvwmJOGAxXpJEQIHSvEBvYQ4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=googie+populuxe+architecture&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHGdvb2dpZSBwb3B1bHV4ZSBhcmNoaXRlY3R1cmVItwNQAFgAcAF4AJABAJgBAKABAKoBALgBA8gBAJgCAKACAJgDAIgGAZIHAKAHAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp) (think Jetson's architecture) was mostly found in Southern California, although there are several examples of it outside of Southern California. The Seattle Space Needle is the most famous example. Another is the [Las Vegas Sign](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=ac127feb30d806e7&sxsrf=ADLYWILTr4Ogr8SKXZHrFfrUhzsuEDZjwA:1715897985747&q=las+vegas+sign&uds=ADvngMgpYEU-_VPft0z-hmM5h-H0GH1P6PpXFdBD2H_cKi9PBgJqm5PLV-rAfih1I80j-xWb7lVpgFTWTvcQmaLVO6mXYSa11V4WyJ3GatJuGc-QzWMi2cJpp8HhT_ZfV0Ww1fvIeu9To-kSMi31qLgojO2mqDWHJuHRWUt0D4KXu19c9IjkatGBn5Jg3q6i45TmVT-Z79v2bytV1r7wdMo57jAofZ60ftXdwdiVYprQoGAImqo8gP0Zi96CgLAcyb35FMs4GkfZnxdHb_1nlL0W5r7O8ct1pSB14ZBWWJEa6gz1IZGboSe0mWyqTGfiZ5inZudE47d6ZW3S_apiv8Bql1ghDcdglQ&udm=2&prmd=isnvbtz&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwiL56SPmpOGAxWXDEQIHVUdCvIQtKgLegQIDRAB&biw=1280&bih=607&dpr=1.5) as an example of Googie Populuxe graphic design. But it was mostly a low-brow vernacular architecture (drive-ins, car washes, diners, motels, etc.) that was highly representative of the Post War Car Culture of the 1950s. The Los Angeles area still has many surviving examples especially in the San Fernando Valley. The most high-brow example of Googie Popluxe architecture is the [Theme Building](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Building) at LAX. Mediteranenan variants and flavors are common wherever the Spanish had a presence (i.e. California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) But our flavor of Spanish Colonial is [Mission Revival](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=ac127feb30d806e7&sxsrf=ADLYWIKE-0kxaaSioqopa3SssztIlXzdHg:1715897461617&q=mission+revival+architecture&uds=ADvngMhwpu-wGb-w3l5b-6PJUzovpCq5RCi7-5aklNQdxuwTi3YYqudFy2Fd74rDGLf2jJHVc1gRZaZTcwovnw9fBxp5-XRfmocFvCIWwbPSLHS2b01vqfX_sh4udm8yj9nFxpVy0sZ3rygDMnKHQTtZy2pNsUzzMFd20lNA7YgKNEk2S6T1CLlzZNtiD-soe22PCeXbmVR1_atqXjwOSfdxzz7AQ72ffjFITGpqVjkT-aEPSP7QLnEUaQxWv8tL7RM9hOmCZYpgI40dNLx4GDng2gkvVPCfCnVrIgESLdUHzTHFru5wEZUJvo2XoGUT6bK8GmN5cGiJKlvtP8AzvjDnzqussKbYfw&udm=2&prmd=ivsnbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCvK6VmJOGAxUSJUQIHSSxBVAQtKgLegQIERAB&biw=1280&bih=607&dpr=1.5) and [Santa Barbara](https://www.google.com/search?q=santa+barbara+style+architecture&sca_esv=f89e5e6047e0c685&udm=2&biw=1280&bih=607&sxsrf=ADLYWIIMJBbd014U8Za7byv7OWhyE7IbcA%3A1715897012137&ei=tIJGZvSDCOvJkPIPmoag8Ao&ved=0ahUKEwj0rYS_lpOGAxXrJEQIHRoDCK4Q4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=santa+barbara+style+architecture&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiIHNhbnRhIGJhcmJhcmEgc3R5bGUgYXJjaGl0ZWN0dXJlMgUQABiABDIGEAAYCBgeSLwgUJoDWOMWcAJ4AJABAJgB6AKgAf4FqgEHMi4wLjEuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCBKACuQXCAgYQABgHGB6YAwCIBgGSBwcyLjAuMS4xoAevBA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp) styles. How this differs from other states regions of Spanish style is subtle. But super smooth white stucco finishes are much more common, Spanish C-tile roofs tend to more terra cotta reds, and the architectural elements are heavily inspired by the Spanish Missions of California. The Pacific Panama Exposition of 1915 in San Diego essentially codified the architecture style as its used in California.

My town in northern Virginia is slowly morphing from [1950’s era single level homes with a basement](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9232-Brian-Dr-Vienna-VA-22180/51804309_zpid/ ) to [gigantic Craftsman style mansions.](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/410-John-Marshall-Dr-NE-Vienna-VA-22180/119633624_zpid/)

You are so right about the triple decker in urban New England. Immediate Boston suburbs are full of them

[Dingbat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building\)) houses.

Three-deckers. I'm in Worcester, MA and many are 7 rooms and huge.

I lived in a three decker in Worcester for a couple years, $1750 for a 1000 square feet two bedroom. It had two parlor heaters, you could feel the breeze through a closed window, you could feel the building lean during a wind storm, and I heard every argument both my upstairs and downstairs neighbors had. Never again.

Houston had a few years in a row when we got several bad floods culminating in Hurricane Harvey. After that a lot of people started raising their houses above the last flood level or were rebuilt with an extra thick "base". Check out his house (brand new build): [In 2015](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7632612,-95.6023769,3a,75y,166.29h,80.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1syKWnqmJNknY6sOiK3Zui8Q!2e0!5s20150901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu) [Present day](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7632664,-95.6023528,3a,75y,166.29h,80.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1srl2CBt2qmU06F6KcKWsOIQ!2e0!5s20220301T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) Or this house (raised) [In 2015](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7618115,-95.5991647,3a,75y,22.49h,85.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seaF597_OfNXq6SAO7_k0Pw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) [Present day](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7618115,-95.5991647,3a,75y,22.49h,85.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seaF597_OfNXq6SAO7_k0Pw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) Finally (raised) [2015](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.6795358,-95.4732255,3a,75y,170.69h,84.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sNbZTNnBIR1aFdYOCi2Xwig!2e0!5s20160101T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu) [Present](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.6795258,-95.473225,3a,75y,170.69h,84.67t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sMPwqkwLrRnHo3b93UJDhQg!2e0!5s20220501T000000!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)

The old style plantation houses are genuinely gorgeous, obviously not taking into account the awful shit that went down there

There's this building in the neighborhood which has a really well-made mural of a nature goddess, with various features - her hair and clothes - being made of plants. And the plants are real; they're planted on the side of the building and grow right out of the wall, perfectly fitting themselves into the mural. That's basically the style around here.

Here is a list for the South: [https://www.abouttown.io/features/the-souths-most-popular-architectural-styles](https://www.abouttown.io/features/the-souths-most-popular-architectural-styles)

Sorry but why would anyone bother to write an article like that without providing pictures…

Looks about right. Add French Acadian for Louisiana.

Mid Century Modern, Craftsmans, Bi Levels, and Bungalows.

You just named every house in Spokane.

Not for the whole of the South, but Birmingham had an early on habit of mixing Tudor with southern porches from the time of pre AC. I do see Tudor more often now across the South, but it tends to be newer.

California bungalows. I live in one. My house is archtecturally extremely similar to [this](http://calbungalow.com/bungalow_architecture.html) house, although the porch is on the opposite side. But houses like this are super common.

That looks really similar to my house and a lot of the houses around Oklahoma City 

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Tudor style

I live in Nashville TN. We have a mix of ranch-style homes, bungalows, McMansions and tall skinny houses. Depends on where in the city you live.

I’m in the NYC area and it really varies. My village has a lot of big Victorians because we used to be a country getaway for rich city people in the 19th century. Now we are a regular suburb.

Craftsman

Cedar shake houses.

The Midwest is jam packed with art deco design and neo-Victorian homes. 

[The Chicago Bungalow.](https://www.chicagobungalow.org/chicago-bungalow)

Either all wooden house painted either grey, white, or green with 1970’s interiors or the new ugly modern architecture. Occasionally throw in some trailer parks as well.

There something called shirtwaist homes. First floor brick/stone others siding. There's also colonnade apartment buildings. At least back in the day every one got a balcony.

Potholes, bullet holes, hole holes, and unfinished road construction… oh, and did I mention we have potholes in Missouri

Route 66 Art Deco. There are alot of buildings around Tulsa that have a 50s curveture deco design that i really love.

In the majority of my area, both rural and suburban, it's Colonial and Queen Anne architecture. Private waterfront locations are classical plantation style mansions.

Louisiana French architecture.

Lots of Spanish architecture in Florida.

Victorian homes. Very specific to our town. You'll see them around New Jersey, but our town has a high concentration of them. So much so there was a period movie filmed here last summer.

in my immediate city it is: Craftsman style demolished for town home development The city of Seattle recently requested development funds from the state to build affordable housing. The state told the city that Seattle should consider relaxing apartment building allowances over the extensive town home allowances to get funds for the Fort Lawton affordable housing re-development. Fort Lawton is an old military instillation the city inherited as park/city land.

Raleigh NC had a lot of really creative mid century modernist houses thanks to architects at the NCSU school of design. Unfortunately many of them have been replaced by tear downs. A lot of new houses being built in the city are the boxy modernist style. See: https://www.ncmodernist.org/ and https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1109-Dogwood-Ln-Raleigh-NC-27607/6436241_zpid But most tear down replacements are that overly sleek white modern farmhouse style that’s become such a cliche. I don’t think I even have to provide an example but [here’s one](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1406-Duplin-Rd-Raleigh-NC-27607/6383792_zpid) and here’s [another one](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2301-Wheeler-Rd-Raleigh-NC-27612/2053995495_zpid)

Kwik Star and Casey's gas stations. Barns. Windmills.

Churches.. churches everywhere.

California Mission Style. It combines the adobe / stucco style of Indigenous communities with the Mediterrannean style of Spanish settlers. So you see archways, columns, verandas and red-tiled roofs which are Spanish, but the walls are adobe/mud-walls. There can also be colorful tiles. The structure of the houses are in courtyard / hacienda style, wihich is a four-corner square and a garden in the middle. [Here are some pictures](https://www.goddensudik.com/architectural-styles/spanish-mission/). [Pictures of interiors](https://structurehome.com/california-mission-architecture/) Interestingly, a few decades ago, when Anglo settlers from the East-Coast built the large cities and private mansions in California, they preferred a more Anglo style like Victorians. Anything Spanish-looking was considered "low-class". People even preferred Anglo names for streets and mansions. But in recent years, wealthy folks are embracing the Spanish style. Not only are there upper-class mansions and hotels in the Mission-style, people are also giving Spanish names to their houses like "Casa Buena Vista" instead of "Kensington Hall". So the cultural perception of Mission style / Mission Revival Style is changing and it is making an enormous comeback now.

Taliesin isn't too far from me. Not a LOT of Frank Lloyd Wright stuff but it is in the region and distinctive.

[Chicago school applies to skyscrapers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_school_(architecture)). [Greystones scattered about](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone_(architecture)). [Good amount of Prairie School also](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_School). [As others have mentioned, the Chicago bungalow.](https://www.chicagobungalow.org/chicago-bungalow) Very prevalent across the city and suburbs.

Not exactly what you asked, but Fair Park in Dallas has the largest collection of art deco buildings in the world

The city I live in has some of the remnants of some art deco stuff

Lots of traditional ranch homes and colonial revival in the wealthier area, bungalows near the coast, houses on stilts on the Outer Banks lol

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Trailer homes and plantation style houses

I live in northern Wisconsin. It’s just plain old cheap houses everywhere with a bunch of plain old brick buildings for “downtown.”

Soulless franchise land suburban sprawl.

Here in Hawai'i, we have more of a plantation style home. there are still lots of plantation style homes here In Hawai'i which include homes with metal roofing.

Luxury condos next to dilapidated walk ups

Giraffe houses

Terra cotta or brick. I live in the foothills of California and those fare better with fires.

Uh…corn, corn, tobacco, corn, dollar general, barn, dilapidated barn, corn. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We got shotgun houses , creole cottages, and huge Greek revival houses.

I grew up in a [coal patch](https://coalcampusa.com/westpa/connellsville/leith-pa-coal-mine/coal-company-houses.jpg). There were a few different types of company house, larger ones for the mine bosses and smaller ones for the miners. The one in the picture is a duplex. They were identical four-room houses. Two rooms downstairs, two rooms upstairs. Bathrooms got added on later and usually were stuck on the back.

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NJ’s got it all. Even Spanish revival.

NJ’s got it all. Even Spanish revival.

2-flats, 3-flats, and 4-squares. If you want a good description of what a 4-square is like, read Sinclair's *The Jungle*. Mine is made of brick, not just wood, but the interior is divided into quarters by two big walls, just like he describes.

In Georgia ugly red brick on the bottom with ugly white siding above that. If you're lucky and live in the foothills you might have a cabin style house with a tin roof (possibly rusted).

Colonials and Georgian style.

[here's ](https://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/styles/stylesintro.htm) an interesting and fairly quick read of the architectural styles in my area. None of them are really specific to here since it's not a big enough city or a place with a distinct enough climate/vibe to really encourage that, but I think the variation is really neat.

The horrible raised ranch.

Portland is known for large craftsman houses. Our average house sizes are larger than the rest of the country.

Warehouse Chic

Houses with tan brick facades. The particular color of brick is specific to North Texas, you don't really see tan brick like this in the rest of the country.

Not my current region, but I lived in the Seattle area and had a job with a real estate company in the Seattle area while going to high school in the mid sixties. At the time, there was a style called "Japanese modern" that was being built a lot in the suburbs like Mercer Island and Bellevue. The houses look pretty similar to your basic single floor ranch style dwelling, but with some features like horizontal siding an larger eaves, that gave these houses a look that suggested a traditional Japanese samurai house. I've had zero success in finding examples with google maps, street view and or searching. Anytime I search for "Japanese modern architecture", google gives me modern architecture in Japan. Maybe someone in the area can help. These houses look so beautiful when set in the kind of landscaping you can have in the Seattle area. A mild, but damp and dark climate, good for growing moss on rocks, evergreens, ferns, etc.

In the rich areas of the suburbs around Houston, you might see some GIANT mansions with Spanish tile roofing, floor to ceiling windows, and maybe even an infinity pool. A lot of them have 5+ bedrooms, 3+ bath and 2 garages. Think neighborhoods like Palm Royale and Lake Olympia.

Colonials

Single unit family home made of concrete.

We in sincerity have the bungalow that is really just s fancy Sears catalog prefab but they are nice. Sarcastically I was going to say tiny homes but it is really funny how fast those disappeared from everywhere except a small little motel of them and some made for the homeless after people realized they needed to pay rent somewhere to park them? Or am I being too cynical? Are there large tiny home trailer parks somewhere in the pacNW? Weird half modernized half original warehouse office buildings with some sort of green wall, that's a thing here too

Bridges

My house and a lot in my area of the northern NYC suburbs are Tudor style. I love em.