The American Foursquare, or the Prairie Box, was a post-Victorian style that shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. The boxy foursquare shape provided roomy interiors for homes on small city lots.
The spread of Folk Victorian (and other late 19th century styles) was made possible by railroads expanding into smaller towns and cities. Home builders often simply added trim and ornament to traditional folk houses. A very common style found in turn-of-the-century western towns settled during that time.
During the late 1960s, a rebellion against modernism and a longing for more traditional styles influenced the design of modest tract housing in North America. Builders began to borrow freely from a variety of historic traditions, offering Neoeclectic (or, Neo-eclectic) houses that were "customized" using a mixture of features selected from construction catalogs.
Larger and more stately than a Cotswold Cottage, the Tudor Revival Style Home is a beautiful rendition of characteristics taken from the original medieval Tudor style architecture built in the 16th Century.
