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Tudor refers to the reigns of the Tudor monarchs : Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I.

The term Stockbroker Tudor is a pointed reference to bourgeois houses built by conservative new money. The American Tudor Revival became an Anglophile phenomenon in the suburbs of the 1920s and later. The revival of late- and post-medieval architecture started with designer William Morris and architect Richard Norman Shaw in England during the 19th century.

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The style was out of fashion by 1945.Ī suburban Tudor of brick, stucco, and slate has many of the style’s hallmarks: steep roof, storybook entry, a picturesque chimney, casement windows and an oriel (on the side), and decorative half-timbering. (Though “Tudor” covers most English Revival houses of the 20th century, subsets include the Cotswold cottage and the Elizabethan town house.) Unlike the “Jacobethan” style favored by architects between 18, postwar examples were informal and even storybook, though landmark examples continued to be built into the 1930s. Builders freely mixed late-medieval details derived from thatched cottages and stone manors. Most houses were well built but not opulent the style hinted at deeper “roots” and lent an illusion of Anglo aristocracy to the middle and upper-middle classes moving to new suburbs.Ĭonstruction was uncomplicated: stucco or brick veneer-a new technology-covered an affordable wood frame. Steep roofs and half-timbered gables appeared on small planbook houses and stockbroker manors alike. By the 1920s, Tudor was more popular than even the Colonial Revival style, in some upscale towns.

Tudor took hold after 1905, coincident with the American Arts & Crafts movement-another medieval revival. From about 1895 to 1915, picturesque half-timbering was rare the stone buildings tended more toward Flemish gables and Renaissance façade ornaments. The revival dates back to late-Victorian interest in medieval times. Mansion or cottage, the Tudor Revival house is usually asymmetrical and dominated by a steep, multi-gabled roof As the style peaked during the 1920s and ’30s, streetcar suburbs sprouted pitched-roof cottages with masonry veneer and decorative half-timbering. In the first wave, the wealthy asked their architects to build stone manors replete with Jacobean parapets and oriels. But never was Anglophilia more apparent than during the Tudor craze. English architecture had long influenced American taste, of course, from the Colonial houses of New England and Virginia, through the Gothic Revivals of the 19th century.

These picturesque houses, usually of brick or stone, fill entire suburban neighborhoods. One of eight houses designed by Lewis Bowman for a 1920s Bronxville, N.Y., subdivision, this one has an irrregular plan and Tudor-style half-timbering and prominent chimney.Īmerican Tudor Revival is among the most recognizable styles of domestic architecture.

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