Decade built · 1870s

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.

1,148 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1870s on record. They stand in 51 states and territories. 21 are National Historic Landmarks.

← 1860s · 1880s →

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.

1,148

Listings

States

National Historic Landmarks

Historic districts

By state

Massachusetts 139 Wisconsin 80 Michigan 76 Utah 75 New York 58 Iowa 49 Ohio 48 Kansas 46 California 43 North Carolina 33 Tennessee 33 Indiana 31 Maine 31 Illinois 29 Minnesota 28 New Jersey 25 Pennsylvania 25 Oregon 23 Kentucky 22New Mexico 17Mississippi 15Colorado 14South Dakota 14Vermont 14Connecticut 12Georgia 12South Carolina 12Nebraska 11Virginia 11District of Columbia 10Missouri 10Rhode Island 9Alabama 8Washington 8Delaware 7Louisiana 7Maryland 7West Virginia 7Nevada 6Arizona 5Oklahoma 5Puerto Rico 5Texas 5Arkansas 4Montana 4New Hampshire 4Idaho 3Alaska 2Florida 2Hawaii 2North Dakota 2

Longest-lived styles of the decade

Style	In the 1870s	Dated examples, all decades	Years in use
Neoclassical	13	1023	1680 to 2016
Greek Revival	44	1093	1660 to 1987
Vernacular	23	182	1662 to 1984
Gothic Revival	129	753	1702 to 2017
Renaissance Revival	49	482	1712 to 2015
Colonial Revival	12	797	1701 to 1998
Federal	2	599	1700 to 1996
Italianate	201	783	1712 to 1948

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.