Built in the 1870s
Ulysses S. Grant served until 1877 and Rutherford B. Hayes followed. Federal troops left the South in 1877 and Reconstruction ended. The Panic of 1873 began a depression that lasted years, and the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 set off a long revival of colonial forms.
1,343 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1870s on record. They stand in 52 states and territories. Of those, 55 are National Historic Landmarks.
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.
By state
Longest-lived styles of the decade
| Style | In the 1870s | Dated examples, all decades | Years in use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greek Revival | 51 | 1334 | 1660 to 2010 |
| Neoclassical | 18 | 1199 | 1680 to 2016 |
| Vernacular | 24 | 191 | 1662 to 1984 |
| Federal | 2 | 751 | 1674 to 1996 |
| Renaissance Revival | 53 | 558 | 1695 to 2015 |
| Gothic Revival | 136 | 807 | 1698 to 2017 |
| Colonial Revival | 19 | 911 | 1690 to 1998 |
| Italianate | 227 | 869 | 1712 to 1988 |
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
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The other 1,288 listings from this decade are on the state pages above and on their county pages.