Looking through the McAlester guide to American architecture and other periodicals, suddenly noticed a nonbark. Dozens of types have names or subnames, with prefixes and suffixes like folk, neo, revival or eclectic. With 1.5 exceptions, all types are foreign. Most are named after foreign countries or English or French monarchs. French, Dutch, Italianate, Greek, Roman, Spanish, Victorian, Georgian, Queen Anne, Second Empire.
The full exception is Cape Cod. The partial exception, Richardsonian Romanesque, is a prefix on Roman, and is named for an American architect, NOT an American region or monarch.
More native names are sometimes used outside academic circles. Prairie is called Wrightian or Chicagoan. Craftsman is called California or Stickley. Neo-Cod is Levitt. New Deal architecture was varied by region because LOCALISM was the key to the New Deal. Even so, CCC built instantly recognizable rubble-stone castles.
If we named recent styles after our own monarchs, Bungalow would be Harding, who ushered in a time when ordinary people could own decent and halfway artistic houses. Ranch would be Eisenhower for sure. McMansion would be Reagan. Neobrutalism, characterized by tents, sleeping bags, dead bodies, and burned-out RVs, would be Bush.
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