Colonial Revival vs Shingle Style
Shingle Style was influenced by Colonial Revival — draws on early American colonial forms, paralleling the rising Colonial Revival of the same decades.
Colonial Revival
An American revival of Georgian and Federal colonial-era building — symmetrical brick or clapboard façades, a centered classically framed entrance, and balanced rows of multi-paned, shuttered windows.
- Strictly symmetrical façade organized about a central axis
- Accentuated central entrance with pediment, fanlight, or portico
- Balanced rows of double-hung, multi-paned windows with shutters
- Side-gabled or hipped roof with classical cornice detailing (dentils)
- Brick or clapboard walls with white-painted classical trim
Shingle Style
A sophisticated New England resort style wrapping irregular, flowing building masses in an unbroken skin of wood shingles — prizing horizontal continuity over applied ornament.
- Continuous unbroken wood-shingle skin over all surfaces
- Asymmetrical, freely flowing massing
- Broad gambrel or gabled roofs with sweeping planes
- Deep wraparound and recessed porches
- Rounded towers, eyebrow dormers, and minimal applied ornament
At a glance
| Colonial Revival | Shingle Style | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1876–1955 | 1874–1910 |
| Discipline | Architecture | Architecture |
| Region | United States, Canada | New England, Atlantic seaboard resorts, United States |
| Family | Revival | Victorian |
| Formal traits | symmetrical, central-entry, shuttered, dentil-cornice | shingle-skin, flowing, sweeping-roof, wraparound-porch |
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