Photo illustrations of building types extend our dictionary of architectural features & types found at the end of this page.

Photos & sketches show how to recognize residential building architectural styles, chimney types and styles, deck & porch designs, and the differences among mobile homes, factory built homes, modular homes, and other structures.

Here we present a series of key articles providing drawings and photographs to assist in recognition and naming of building architectural styles, roof shapes, window types, and other building components or features.

Picture Dictionary of Building Components, Features, Types

As the Georgian style Daniel Vose house (today called the SUFFOLK RESOLVES HOUSE [Image]) (1774) in our page-top photograph shows, in actual practice the architecture of even important, historic homes may be complicated than the archetype illustrations of architectural types below.

Details including photographs of the page top home cut apart are in MILTON ARCHITECTURE found in our listing

of FIELD GUIDES TO NORTH AMERICAN HOUSE ARCHITECTURE

Chimneys & Their Architectural Styles - Photo Guide

In order among the photos above we see: ADAMS STYLE [Image] chimney,

ITALINATE STYLE [Image] chimney,

angled chimneys, viewed from an attic CHIMNEY CORBELLING [Image], an in-flue from rooftop of an un-lined single-wythe brick colonial style chimney,

QUEEN ANNE [Image] style chimney details (Carson Dunlop)

Also see CHIMNEYS & FIREPLACES, AGE, TYPES where we describe chimey inspection, diagnosis, repair,and safety.

see CHIMNEYS fire hazards, heating flues, woodstoves, coal stoves, & fireplaces: chimney inspection, defects, safety concerns, repair methods.

Also see ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING COMPONENT ID , and for details about chimneys

DECK & PORCH CONSTRUCTION- Deck & Porch construction details for safe, durable structures.

Also see DECK COLLAPSE Case Study

and DECK FLASHING LEAKS, ROT Case Study

FOUNDATION CRACKS & DAMAGE GUIDE - identifies types of foundations & foundation materials: block, brick, concrete, basement, crawl space, slab, floating slab, stone, wood foundations

LEED GREEN BUILDING CERTIFICATION

Mobile Homes Contrasted with Modular Constructed Homes & Factory-Built Housing

MOBILE HOMES, DOUBLEWIDES, TRAILERS - Mobile Home photos (above) demonstrate the wide range of condition, innovation, and sophistication that may be encountered with mobile homes, trailers, doublewides.

Photo above: mobile homes in the Ennis Mobile Home Park, Poughkeepsie, New York.

MODULAR HOME CONSTRUCTION - Modular Home photo shows the home under construction. It's not difficult to spot modular construction by various building details.

"Factory built" housing can be an ambiguous term since it is sometimes claimed

by MOBILE HOME manufacturers,

MODULAR HOME manufacturers, panelized construction manufacturers, and even some log home manufacturers.

The US DOE provides succinct definitions to help sort out these manufactured housing terms:

Modular Homes

Modules are transported to the site and installed.

See MODULAR HOME CONSTRUCTION for a detailed look at modern modular home construction.

Panelized Homes

Panels—a whole wall with windows, doors, wiring and outside siding—are transported to the site and assembled. See Panelized Construction for a detailed look at a 1950's panelized construction home that was war surplus (Fishkill NY).

Pre-Cut Homes

Building materials are factory-cut to design specifications, transported to the site, and then assembled. Pre-cut homes include kit, dome, and log homes.

LOG HOME GUIDE - provides an example of pre-cut homes, how to inspect, diagnose, and repair problems on log houses; how to identify and determine the age of different types of log homes: traditional log homes, manufactured log homes, slab-sided log homes, and alternative log homes using concrete logs and fiberglass logs.

How to Identify SEARS KIT HOUSES provides the most famous example of pre-cut home construction.

Mobile Homes

This is the term used for factory-built homes produced prior to when the HUD Code went into effect [1976].

See MOBILE HOMES, DOUBLEWIDES, TRAILERS for a detailed look at the wide range of quality and condition of these homes.

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Reader Q&A - also see RECOMMENDED ARTICLES & FAQs

On 2021-02-02 by Patricia Jordan Lockhart - Do Adobe houses have to pass inspection of codes or certain code to build on your own property ?

Do Adobe houses have to pass inspection of codes or certain code to build on your own property if you residence in the northern or southern parts of USA within the states you residence in

for Example I residence within the state of Alabama of Tuscaloosa Alabama and surrounding areas but in the Tuscaloosa county areas where I resdenice at it's in county of Tuscaloosa county areas near Cottondale Alabama areas the location I residence at it in the subdivision of older subdivision under the
( Term of the Granfather l aw ) it's just certain restrictions on certain things and

under certain situations of building codes what I'm going through to build a house or a dream house on my own property but especially an Adobes homes and certain types of Adobes homes or certain modern Adobe homes styles to build on your property which is the best options for me

should I build the Adobe homes on my own property myself or should I hire a certified construction company that deals with Adobes homes/houses

or should I also buy a Adobes modern style house /home kit of an log cabin style and built it on my own property or hire an certified construction company that will build the Adobe home style kit of a log cabin style on my own property

On 2021-02-02 by danjoefriedman (mod)

Patricia

Please see our detailed answer to this question now found at

ADOBE CONSTRUCTION.

where we also invite comments from other readers who may be helpful to you.

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  • ARCHITECTURE DICTIONARY of buildings, Components
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