Architectural Styles
Brownstone
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1820s-1890s
- Brownstone (warm brown sandstone) facades
- intricate decorative elements,
- cornices
- window moldings
- carved stonework around entries and windows
- stoop (a set of steps leading to the entrance)
- large, tall windows
- two to four stories
- often in a rowhouse format
- USA [NE]
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Custom Hotel Examples
- Rowhouses
- single family homes
- mixed-use buildings
- Apostle Island brownstone
- Milwaukee County Courthouse
- Old Main, front, University of Wisconsin
- Superior, Northwestern Terra Cotta Company Building
- Hummelstown brownstone
- North American Building Philadelphia
- Portland brownstone
- Trinity Church NYC
- St. Paul’s Chapel in lower Manhattan
- Harvard Hall
- Massachusetts Hall Harvard Uni
- Brownstones on Capitol Avenue in Hartford Pennsylvania
- New Jersey brownstone,
- Old Queens Rutgers University
- South Wales brownstone,
- Brownstone Row Houses in Brooklyn,
- Brownstones of Harlem NYC,
- West End Historic District Boston,
- Upper West Side Brownstones NYC,
- Philadelphia Brownstone
- Historic Districts of Newark,
- Llandaff Cathedral in South wales
- Quaker Mill House
- Park Slope,Brooklyn
- Rowhouses Cobble Hill
- Row houses Prospect Heights
- Prospect Lefferts Gardens
- Heppenheimer Mansion Van Vorst Park NJ
- “Brownstones” in Fairmount, Philadelphia
- Townhouses / private residences
- Boarding houses / lodging houses
- Rooming houses / SROs (single-room occupancy)
- Guesthouses / B&B-style stays
- Small hotels / “residential hotels”
- Serviced apartments / furnished flats
- Short-term rentals
Adaptive Reuse
- Harlem Flophouse (New York City)
- Brooklyn Brownstone Guest House
- Brownstone Short-Term Stays (Airbnb examples)
Landmarks
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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