Decade built · 1810s

Built in the 1810s

James Madison served until 1817 and James Monroe followed. The War of 1812 ran to 1815 and British troops burned the Capitol and the President's House in 1814. Work started on the Erie Canal in 1817 and steamboats began working the western rivers.

297 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1810s on record. They stand in 33 states and territories. Of those, 33 are National Historic Landmarks.

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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 November 02, 2026.

297
Listings
33
States
33
National Historic Landmarks
29
Historic districts

By state

Massachusetts 43New York 32Maine 26Tennessee 21Virginia 21North Carolina 17Mississippi 16Kentucky 14Pennsylvania 14New Jersey 13Georgia 9Louisiana 7Ohio 7South Carolina 7Connecticut 6Alabama 5Maryland 5New Hampshire 5Vermont 5Rhode Island 4District of Columbia 3Michigan 3California 2Florida 2U.S. Virgin Islands 2Hawaii 1Illinois 1Indiana 1Minnesota 1Missouri 1Puerto Rico 1Wisconsin 1West Virginia 1

Longest-lived styles of the decade

StyleIn the 1810sYears in use
Greek Revival251660 to 2010
Georgian81645 to 1986
Neoclassical31680 to 2016
Federal1121674 to 1996
Renaissance Revival41695 to 2015
Gothic Revival71698 to 2017
Colonial21641 to 1956
Colonial Revival51690 to 1998

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 November 02, 2026.

Places with full records

Asa Gray HouseNHL1966
Lawrenceville SchoolNHL1986
Liberty FarmNHL1974
AshlandNHL1966
Joseph Story HouseNHL1973
AuburnNHL1974
City HallNHL1966
Fairmount Water WorksNHL1976
Fort RossNHL1966
Benjamin Lundy HouseNHL1974
Valentine MuseumNHL1969
Boston Manufacturing CompanyNHL1977
Emily Dickinson HouseNHL1966
Fort Mitchell SiteNHL1972
Friends HospitalNHL1999
Governor's MansionNHL1969
Watervliet ArsenalNHL1966
Athenaeum of PhiladelphiaNHL1972
Hayes PlantationNHL1973
Peabody LibraryNHL2024
First Church of Christ, LancasterNHL1970
Manasseh Cutler Hall, Ohio UniversityNHL1966
Russian FortNHL1966
David Sears HouseNHL1970
St. John's ChurchNHL1966
Hyde HallNHL1971
University of Virginia Historic DistrictNHL1970
Decatur HouseNHL1966
MonmouthNHL1973
White House of the ConfederacyNHL1966
Fort SnellingNHL1966
St. Paul's ChurchNHL1970
Telfair AcademyNHL1976

The other 264 listings from this decade are on the state pages above and on their county pages.