This page contains a compendium of terms pertaining to historical topics.
Architectural Styles
American Foursquare
American Foursquare Cottage
Art Deco
Art Moderne
Arts and Crafts
Beaux Arts
Brutalist
Chicago School Commercial
Classical Revival
Colonial Revival
Craftsman
Dutch Colonial Revival
Edwardian Queen Anne
Elizabethan-Jacobethan Revival
English Colonial
English Revival
First Chicago School
Gable Front
Georgian
Gothic Revival
Greek Revival
Italian Renaissance
Mediterranean Revival
Mid-Century Modern
Mission Revival
Neo Classical
Prairie Influence American Foursquare
Prairie School
Queen Anne
Red River Frame
Richardsonian Romanesque
Romanesque Revival
St. Cecilia
Second Empire
Spanish Colonial Revival
Streamline Moderne
Terracotta Revival
Three-Flat Chicago
Tudor
Tudor Revival
Tudor Revival Storybook
Victorian
Victorian Era Italianate
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jordan Makichuk.
Page revised: 7 March 2026
This is a glossary of historical terms developed by the Manitoba Historical Society.
To suggest other terms for addition to the glossary, please contact the MHS Webmaster.
