Sara Goodwin - Portland, Oregon Appraiser

Below are 20 images of houses from the city of Spokane, Washington. Can you guess their styles?

The option of historic architectural styles are listed below the pictures. The answers are listed below that.

5 points for each correct answer. 10 point bonus if you do not look at the options of styles posted below the picture. I specifically chose pictures of houses that I was not sure about (or necessarily agreed with), so this might be tricky.

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Take the quiz....

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19) 20)

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Remember if you look at the house styles listed below first, you lose your chance for 10 bonus points....

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House Styles:

• American Foursquare
• Bungalow
• Colonial Revival
• Craftsman
• Italian Renaissance
• Italianate
• Mission
• NeoClassical
• Prairie
• Queen Anne
• Spanish Eclectic
• Tudor

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Quiz answers below...

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Answers:

1. Tudor
2. Craftsman
3. Colonial Revival
4. American Foursquare
5. Craftsman
6. Tudor
7. Bungalow
8. Colonial Revival
9. Italian Renaissance
10. Bungalow
11. Italianate
12. Mission
13. Queen Anne
14. Tudor
15. Spanish Eclectic
16. Prairie
17. Mission
18. NeoClassical
19. Queen Anne
20. Prairie

Resource: Preservationdirectory.com web site

Every day I walk my neighborhood and mostly admire, sometimes dislike the architecture. No matter what I feel about the outward appearance of the house, the entire grouping makes up the neighborhood that I love to live in. With the collage of houses, come the residents that share my admiration.

The decades have morphed the neighborhood appeal into a mishmash of styles, sizes and designs. The ebb and flow of economics have determined how large or small each new home will be. It also determined when it made more sense to rejuvanate or tear down and rebuild a dilapidated structure.

Like many inner-Portland neighborhoods, my neighborhood was mainly built up in the 1920s when bungalow and craftsman houses of that decade were built to keep the older farm houses (usually one per block) company in a growing city.

There is a sprinkling of 1930s houses, but keeping with the historic tradition of the rest of Portland area (and much of the US), the Depression put a large halt to that decade's construction, which often consisted of Tudor style bungalows.

The 1940s brought on a new housing frenzy, although it seemed to miss much of my immediate neighborhood (which was running out of lots by then), houses were frantically being built in surrounding neighborhoods wherever they may fit. In 1948, the Vanport Flood wiped out a blue collar port "city" located at the bottom of the bluff (now Swan Island) and modest houses were built throughout the area to house dislocated residents.

The 1950s continued with modest housing in the area. It was the first version of tract housing that we still see today. Sadly, some of the character was bred out of these houses and the basements started disappearing, but they're sturdy little structures all the same.

For the most part, houses kept their modesty until the 1990's rolled around and the neighborhood started gentrifying (I'm still torn as to whether this is a good thing or not). Now new houses over 2,500 square feet (above ground) are being built (this may seem small to many McMansion dwellers out there, but around here, we seem to think that's more than adequate) and restaurants and small shops are starting to call the arterial streets home.

The block where I live is like a box of chocolates... My block is home to the turn of the century corner house, next to the 1920s house across the street from the 1930s house, kitty corner to the 1980s house which is right next to the 1950s house. At the end of the block are restaurants, an apartment building and new Townhouses.

The group of people that this collaboration attracts is as colorful as the history of the houses and the stories they tell. Houses vary so much in size and condition that we live next to lawyers and doctors on one side, teachers on the other and renters across the street. I love that. I appreciate that everyone has a different idea of what their houses and landscapes should look like. Even ‘twin houses' that you find side by side that were built in the early 1900s have since lost their likeness due to the care that they've been given through the years.

If you are at all interested in historical Portland architecture, please check out this book at Powells (sure, you can order it off of Amazon.com, but wouldn't you rather peruse Powells for hours on end?).