Styles
Twelve styles
The styles you are most likely to meet in Europe and North America, oldest first. Dates are approximate and vary by place.
Romanesquec. 1000 to 1200
Gothicmid-1100s to 1500s
Renaissance1400s to 1500s
Baroquec. 1600 to 1750
Georgian and colonialc. 1714 to 1830
Greek Revival and Neoclassicalc. 1760s to 1860s (Greek Revival in the U.S. c. 1820s to 1850s)
Gothic Revivalc. 1830s to 1930s
Carpenter Gothicc. 1840s to 1900
Romanesque Revival and Richardsonianc. 1840s to 1900s (Richardsonian Romanesque in the U.S. c. 1880s to 1900)
Byzantine and Byzantine RevivalByzantine: 500s to 1400s; Revival: c. 1880s to 1930s
Spanish Colonial and Mission RevivalSpanish missions: 1600s to early 1800s; Mission Revival: c. 1890 to 1930
Modernc. 1920s onward (most U.S. examples after 1945)