0-2 Identifying Housing Styles

3) I was recently bedeviled by a new publication
by a very respected writer who identified some
houses with style names that are at odds with
other publications over the last few years. In one
particular case another Guelph house, that had
been used as the finest example of a Regency
house, was named as possessing a totally
different style !
4) And, sometimes, to add further to the confusion,
smaller houses of some styles have been enlarged
into a totally different style.
[Above: A Tudor in Kitchener.]

[Left: Art Moderne in Quebec City.]



The identification of building styles is very contentious and despite all my research I know that sometimes I am going to make mistakes. Rather than junk years of work, I am going to proceed by applying the names that I feel most aptly reflect the building styles. I will also happily add the names used by other writers.
I will, in addition, attempt to refine some of the more generic terms, like Tudor, into identifiable groups (e.g. Medieval English Cottage, Jacobethan, Edwardian, Queen Anne, etc.).