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Styles of Architecture in Buffalo, NY
Note that there are no universally accepted classifications or dates.

	Major Styles - Chronological Order
	1790-1830 Federal Style Illustration: Sears House, 75 Barker St.
	1820-1860 Greek Revival Illustration: Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
	1830-1900 Victorian
	1830-1860 Gothic Revival Illustration: St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
	1840-1900 Romanesque Revival Illustration: St. Francis de Sales RC Church See also: Basilica Style
	1850-1860 Octagon Illustration: Rich Twinn Octagon House
	1850-1885 Italianate Illustration: Charles W. Miller House
	1850-1900 Byzantine Revival
	1860-1890 Second Empire Illustration: Sternberg House/The Mansion on Delaware Avenue
	1860-1890 Stick Illustration: Caulkins House
	1870-1890 Eastlake Illustration: Carlton Ladd House
	1870-1920 Colonial Revival Illustration: Rockwell Hall, State U. College at Buffalo See also: Dutch Colonial Revival
	1870-1900 Richardsonian Romanesque Illustration: Buffalo Psychiatric Center Administration Building
	1876-1930 Beaux Arts Illustration: John W. Bush House, 6 Lincoln Parkway
	1880-1900 Shingle Illustration: 420 linwood Ave.
	1880-1910 Queen Anne Illustration: 409 Linwood Avenue
	1890-1920 Sullivanesque Illustration: Guaranty Building
	1890-1940 Bungalow Illustration: 452 Parkside Ave.
	1890-1929 'Buffalo Doubles': Industrial Vernacular Style Illustration: Colvin Avenue
	1895-1920 Renaissance Revival Illustration: Niagara Share Building
	End of the Nineteeth Century Art Nouveau Illustration: Calumet Building
	End of the Nineteeth Century Baroque Revival Illustration: Our Lady of Victory Basilica
	Period Revival 1900-1940 See also: Spanish Eclectic
	1900-1940 Georgian Revival Illustration: 65 Lincoln Parkway
	1900-1920 Neoclassicism Illustration: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Museum
	1900-1920 Prairie Illustration: Darwin Martin House
	1900-1920 American Foursquare Alternate name: Prairie Box Sometimes classified as a substyle of Prairie houses Illustration: 98 Tillinghast Place
	1905-1930 Arts and Crafts/Craftsman Illustration: Charles Rohlfs/Anna Catherine Green House
	Early Twentieth century Tudor Revival Includes Jacobean Revival Illustration: Jewett M. Richmond House
	1920s, 1960s French Provincial Revival Illustration: Wallace House
	1920-1970 Modern Illustration: M&T Bank See also: International
	1925-1940 Art Deco Illustration: Buffalo City Hall See also: Egyptian/Egyptian Revival
	1930-1945 Art Moderne Illustration: Greyhound Bus Terminal
	1930-1970 Ranch Illustration: 390 LeBrun Road, AMHERST
	1945-1960 Brutalism Illustration: Buffalo City Court
	1970-present Postmodern Illustration: Federal Court Building
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Major Styles, Alphabetical order

American Foursquare

Art Deco

Art Moderne

Art Nouveau

Arts and Crafts / Craftsman

Baroque Revival

.Beaux Arts

Brutalism

.'Buffalo Doubles': Industrial Vernacular Style

.Bungalow

Byzantine Revival

Classical Revival / Jeffersonian Classicism / Roman Classicism

Colonial Revival

.Eastlake

.Federal

Georgian Revival

Gothic Revival

Greek Revival

International

Italianate

Jacobean Revival - See Tudor

Modern

Neoclassical

Octagon

Queen Anne

Period Revival

Prairie

Renaissance Revival Style

Richardsonian Romanesque

Romanesque Revival

Second Empire

Shingle

Stick

Sullivanesque

Tudor Revival

Victorian

20th Century substyles: 

Kit / Catalog Houses

Daylight Factory

Workers' Cottages

Duplexes and Two-Family Flats

Early Twentieth Century Commercial (1900-1930) One-story, flat roof

Commercial Architectural Styles

See also: French Architecture and Furniture Styles

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