Decade built · 1860s

Built in the 1860s

Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861 and Andrew Johnson succeeded him in 1865. The Civil War ran from 1861 to 1865 and ended slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment. The Homestead Act of 1862 opened western land to settlers and the first transcontinental railroad was joined in 1869.

747 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1860s on record. They stand in 48 states and territories. 21 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 September 19, 2026.

747

Listings

States

National Historic Landmarks

Historic districts

By state

Massachusetts 86 Wisconsin 65 New York 55 Iowa 38 Michigan 34 Minnesota 32 Ohio 32 Kentucky 30 Utah 28 Maine 27 Kansas 26 Tennessee 25 North Carolina 24 California 20New Jersey 19Illinois 15Pennsylvania 14Indiana 13Mississippi 12Missouri 11Virginia 11Alabama 10Louisiana 10Maryland 10Oregon 10Connecticut 9Vermont 9Georgia 7Puerto Rico 7District of Columbia 6New Mexico 6Colorado 5Rhode Island 5South Carolina 5Nebraska 4Nevada 4Washington 4Florida 3Montana 3Arkansas 2Idaho 2New Hampshire 2Oklahoma 2Alaska 1Hawaii 1South Dakota 1Texas 1West Virginia 1

Longest-lived styles of the decade

Style	In the 1860s	Dated examples, all decades	Years in use
Romanesque	2	22	1101 to 1932
Neoclassical	16	1023	1680 to 2016
Spanish Colonial Revival	2	144	1680 to 2014
Greek Revival	88	1093	1660 to 1987
Vernacular	27	182	1662 to 1984
Gothic Revival	66	753	1702 to 2017
Renaissance Revival	29	482	1712 to 2015
Colonial Revival	13	797	1701 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 September 19, 2026.