While many of the house styles brought by the first European settlers to North America remained popular until the mid-20th century, other styles have joined them, adding a vast choice for homeowners.
Whether it’s a Colonial or Victorian look to a bit more Modern or Postmodern, or something in between, there's something for every taste.
Take a look at these vintage photos to see what houses looked like in the U.S. from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
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| “The Corey House - Meals At All Hours” was built in 1886, before the hotel was built next door, Grove, Oklahoma |
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| 12 Friendship St, Newport, Rhode Island, 1903 |
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| 120 Washington St., Cuba City, Wisconsin, circa 1904 |
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| A farm in Massachusetts, 1899 |
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| A.J. Rodes & Co. Groceries, Clovis, NM, facing south between Rencher and Merriwether Streets, circa 1911 |
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| Berry house, Crescent City, CA, winter 1906-07 |
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| Blewett home, 750 W. 6th, Eugene, Oregon, June 1907 |
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| Blewett house - 795 West 7th St., Eugene, Oregon, July 1910 |
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| Breen's Livery Stable, Crescent City, CA, circa 1900 |
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| Brown's House (Est. 1810) Mt. Aetna, Pennsylvania, circa 1910 |
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| Eck farm - Bloomfield, Knox County, Nebraska |
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| Family posing with car in Spokane, Washington, 1913 |
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| Family with car and home, Buffalo, New York, circa 1910 |
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| Fancy house in Hastings, Nebraska |
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| Farmhouse near Bremen in Marshall county, Kansas, 1903 |
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| Four people are in front of the Manhart house at the corner of Plum Avenue and Manhart Street (Highway 67) in Sedalia, Colorado, circa 1905 |
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| Girl with the house where the family lived briefly in Gardena, California, 1906 |
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| Home of Ernest Wegner, chief of the Galveston Fire Department, 1328 Avenue K, Texas, February 13, 1897 |
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| Kershner farm, near Dows, Iowa, November 1907 |
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| Kleckner farmhouse, North Star, Michigan, circa 1890s |
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| Maddox family, Sedalia, Colorado, circa 1900 |
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| Man with his parents in front of their farm house, west of Lake Odessa, Ionia county Michigan on route M-50, 1900 |
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| Maria McVickar Durand's house, Cass Street at Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1887 |
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| Mrs. Ballard's house, Timpson, Texas |
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| On the back read “Wellington & Amanda (Kershner) DeNoyelles, Goldfield, Iowa, May 1895” |
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| Paul and Esther Hostetler family, Indiana, circa 1896 |
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| People in front of their house in Crescent City, CA, about 1903 |
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| People in front of their house in San Francisco, California |
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| People outside of their house in Monroe County, Ohio, circa 1890s |
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| People outside their house at 427 S. Flower Street in Los Angeles, 1910 |
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| Perry, Kansas, circa 1890 |
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| The Blaisdell's at home, New York |
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| The home of the Edward Anderson family on Walnut Street in Kewanee, Illinois, circa early 1900s |
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| Thompson farm in Barron, Wisconsin |
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| Walnut Grove Farm, Ohio, 1900 |
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| Weaver House, Plum Avenue, Sedalia, Colorado, 1904 |