Decade built · 1730s

Built in the 1730s

Georgia was chartered in 1732 and settled at Savannah the next year, the last of the thirteen colonies. The Great Awakening began in the Connecticut Valley and spread after George Whitefield started preaching in the colonies. Newspapers and printing shops multiplied in the larger ports.

61 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1730s on record. They stand in 13 states and territories. 1 is a National Historic Landmark.

1720s · 1740s →

Construction years come from Wikidata, matched on National Register reference number. Only plain four-digit years are counted, so a place recorded as circa or as a range is left out. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

61
Listings
13
States
1
National Historic Landmarks

By state

Massachusetts 25New York 12New Jersey 7Connecticut 4North Carolina 2South Carolina 2Virginia 2Delaware 1Guam 1Louisiana 1New Hampshire 1Puerto Rico 1Rhode Island 1

Longest-lived styles of the decade

StyleIn the 1730sYears in use
Greek Revival31660 to 1987
Georgian131666 to 1986
Colonial Revival31701 to 1998
Federal31700 to 1996
American colonial21670 to 1913
Colonial151641 to 1819
First Period51641 to 1750

Style labels come from Wikidata. A style is ranked by the span between the earliest and latest dated listing that carries it, across the whole register, and only styles with two or more listings in this decade are shown. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Places with full records

Old Ursuline ConventNHL1966

The other 60 listings from this decade are on the state pages above and on their county pages.