Description:
- This is another of
the period revival style houses of the early 20th century (e.g., Georgian
Revival, Spanish Revival, Colonial Revival,
Classical Revival.) Note that some historians would classify the style
as beginning in the late 19th century.
- The period
1910-1930 was a time of free borrowing of historic styles as more
people could afford single-family houses and there was no real
consensus about a modern architectural style (as was the case with Queen
Anne, Shingle,
and Georgian successively from from 1875 to 1910). Houses in this
period are sometimes lumped together as "period revival."
- Sometimes Tudor Revival
is referred to as Elizabethan or Half-timbered houses
- Derived primarily from
English Renaissance buildings of the 16th and early 17th centuries,
including those of Elizabethan (Elizabeth I, 1558-1603) and Jacobean
(James I, 1603-25) periods.
- Some Tudor houses mimic
humble Medieval cottages -- They may even include a false thatched
roof. Other Tudor homes borrow ideas from late Medieval palaces. They
may have overlapping gables, parapets, and beautifully patterned brick
or stonework.
- Enormously popular in
the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the suburbs, where only the
Colonial Revival rivaled it in popularity.
- Modified versions became
fashionable in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Two principal
types: estate house, suburban house
Half-timbering:
- Characteristic of
Medieval buildings when the beams held the buildings up and the spaces
between them were filled with plaster.
- A
"half-timbered" building has exposed wood framing. The
spaces between the wooden timbers are filled with plaster, brick, or
stone.
- In the 19th and 20th
centuries, it became fashionable to imitate Medieval building
techniques. Many Queen Anne and Stick style houses were given false
half-timbering. Timbers were applied to wall surfaces as decoration.
- In the U.S. however,
half-timbering is only a decorative - albeit distinctive - covering of
frame construction. In the United States, harsh winters made
half-timbered construction impractical.
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