Jacobethan Revival Style, popular 1890-1940
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Located at 4001 Linnean Drive, Washington, D.C., this Jacobethan style home was buit by Porter and Lockie in 1939. The original owners were Edgar and Beronia Morris. It was listed ib the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
More Architectural House Styles
The term "Jacobethan" [†] is compounded from Jacobean and Elizabethan. This style is definitely English in origin; however, nobody calls the English architecture of the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, "Jacobethan." The actual "revival" is said to have been in England around 1830. Landscape Architect, Andrew Jackson Downing, said Jacobethan might be "adopted for country residences here in picturesque situations with quaint and happy effect." Both Tudor and Jacobethan have similar characteristic lines of English Architecture, and both enjoyed a brief revival between 1890-1940's.
Characteristics
- Flat stone of Tudor arches over doorways or windows
- Exposed half timbering on walls
- Asymetrical form
- Ornamental chimneys, sometimes with separate shafts for each flue and with chimney pots
- Multiple high-pitch gables
- Use of stucco with half-timbering on walls
- Dormers
- Battlements
- Stone used for window and door frames
- Quoins
- Windows with stone transoms or stone mullions
† Adapted from: The City of Lobbock Planning Department, Architecture In Lubbock: A Guide for Identification and Preservation, 1979. ci.lubbock.tx.us, accessed October, 2021.