Architectural Styles
Federal
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1780-1830
- Symmetry and Proportion
- Large, multi-paned windows,
- Palladian style
- elliptical fanlights over doors
- decorative moldings
- simple, elegant cornices
- brick, with wooden details and trim
- low-pitched roofs often with a simple cornice,
- USA
- NE States
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Private residences
- town halls
- courthouses
- churches
- meeting houses
- Old Town Hall Salem
- Hamilton Hall Salem
- Thomas Jefferson’s Retreat Virginia
- Massachusetts State House
- Virginia State Capitol Richmond
- Montpelier Virginia
- Old North Church Boston
- Robert Smith House Maryland
- Federal-style Row Houses Washington
- George Wythe House Williamsburg
- Benjamin Franklin House Philadelphia
- New Jersey State House
- Second Bank of the United States Philadelphia
- Federal townhouse boutique hotels
- Historic mansion B&Bs
- Early American inns / taverns with lodging rooms
- Port-city merchant house guesthouses
- Historic commercial hotels from the early republic
- Converted civic/institutional buildings
- Serviced apartments in Federal-era buildings
- Tremont House in Boston 1829
- Marshall House — Savannah, Georgia
- The Williams Inn — Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Red Lion Inn — Stockbridge, Massachusetts
- Howland House Inn — Wiscasset, Maine
- Boutique inns and B&Bs in Salem, Massachusetts – The Hawthorne Hotel
- Olde Colonial Inn (Concord, MA)
Adaptive Reuse
- Whitehall — Middletown, Connecticut
- The Merchant — Freeport, Maine
- Federal‐period townhouses adapted as guesthouses/B&Bs near Society Hill Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & in Charleston, South Carolina;
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation