Decade built · 1880s

Built in the 1880s

James Garfield was assassinated in 1881 and Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison followed in turn. Immigration from southern and eastern Europe rose sharply and the railroads adopted standard time zones in 1883. The Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883 and Chicago put up the first tall building framed in metal in 1885.

1,561 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1880s on record. They stand in 51 states and territories. 23 are National Historic Landmarks.

← 1870s · 1890s →

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.

1,561

Listings

States

National Historic Landmarks

Historic districts

By state

Massachusetts 141 Wisconsin 108 Utah 93 Kansas 91 New York 82 Iowa 76 South Dakota 62 Ohio 58 Michigan 53 Oregon 53 Colorado 47 Minnesota 45 Washington 45 California 43 Tennessee 39 Nebraska 35 North Carolina 34 Pennsylvania 34 Illinois 32 Indiana 29 New Mexico 27 Maine 26 Kentucky 22Louisiana 19Vermont 18Idaho 17Texas 17Missouri 15Montana 15Maryland 14New Jersey 14Rhode Island 14District of Columbia 13Florida 12Georgia 12Mississippi 12Alabama 11Connecticut 10Virginia 10Arkansas 9Puerto Rico 9West Virginia 9Arizona 7New Hampshire 6North Dakota 5Oklahoma 5Wyoming 5Delaware 3South Carolina 3Alaska 1Hawaii 1

Longest-lived styles of the decade

Style	In the 1880s	Dated examples, all decades	Years in use
Romanesque	3	22	1101 to 1932
Neoclassical	29	1023	1680 to 2016
Spanish Colonial Revival	2	144	1680 to 2014
Greek Revival	17	1093	1660 to 1987
Vernacular	25	182	1662 to 1984
Gothic Revival	94	753	1702 to 2017
Renaissance Revival	43	482	1712 to 2015
Colonial Revival	25	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.