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• Adamesque Federal - (Early American) Adamesque Federal is similar to the Federal style with more elaborate windows and is noted for its Neoclassical ornament. - especially with interiors. It is named for Robert Adam (1728-1792) who developed this style.The interior dining room at George Washington's Mount Vernon was completed as Adamesque. Although it was primarily a residential style, Adamesque Federal was used by Charles Bullfinch (1763-1844) on the Massachusetts State House in Boston, and on churches.
  • In residential floor plans you see eliptical rooms (the Oval Office), and graceful, open, winding staircases.

• American Mansard - Noted for its mansard roof, decorative moldings, and metal work. This style is named for the French architect François Mansart. In most cases, this is a style of a roof, rather than a complete style and floorplan for a house. Minnesota houses and some townhouse developments built in the 1960s through the 1990s have a builder's adapation of this roof that is unlike the style of the 1870s. In the buildings of the 1870s, you will often see cast-iron cresting that lines the perimeter of the roof. The first-floor windows will likely to be large. The styles of the windows will vary.

• Builder's Cape Cod - In the 1920s, after the advent of central heating, the one-and-one-half story Cape Cod is revived. The reason for the extensive use of the one-and-one half story dwelling is that heat rises from the main floor and warms the upper half-story sleeping area during the night .

• Builder's Colonial - Typical of the more modest two-story homes are the square dwellings 24 to 32 feet on a side, built between about 1900 and 1925. The exterior is often described as appearing "boxy."