• Elizabethan or Half-Timber - A popular style from 1920 to 1940, and from 1970 to1990. In Minnesota, the half-timber design is re-discovered by builders again and again. Sometimes called Neo-Tudor, its cosmetic half-timbering is a common feature, along with the steeply pitched roof, and the front gables. Notice how the first floor façade has stone and brick that is not used on the second floor. In addition, the second floor may extend out a bit in places, as we see in the Garrison Colonial, pictured below. Expect to find tall windows and leaded glass. Minneapolis real estate people often use the term "Tudor," but the Elizabethan Half-Timber style is more closely linked to the American Farmhouse rather than to a Tudor mansion.

• French Provincial (French) - A balanced, formal one-and-one-half to two-and-one-half story with a steeply hipped roof. These are rural homes of the French countryside that are sometimes referred to as Normandy farmhouses. It was a popular style with the military personnel returning to from France after World War I.
  

• Garrison - (Early American) A two-and one-half story with a second story overhang - called a jetty - in the front or on the gabled end. This design feature goes back to medieval England, but can now seen on the façades of homes in almost any residential area. The house on the right was build in year 1615, in York, Maine.

• Greek Revival - This style was popular in Minneapolis about 1820 to 1850.. Unfortunately, very few of the original homes of the period (the ones with the full portico) exist in the metropolitan Twin Cities area, with one notable exception on the Wisconsin side of the Saint Croix River. This style was based on the forms of Greek antiquity. Greece, at the time, (circa 1827), was fighting a war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which brought Classical Greek ideas to the forefront.

• High Victorian Italianate (19th Century) Symmetrical, different types of arches, ornate.
• Romanesque (19th Century) Massive appearance, stone with semicircular arches.
  • Pictured on the right is Pillsbury Hall at the University of Minnesota - Minneapolis. Built in 1887-1889, it is considered to be an excellent example of Richardsonian Romanesque.

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