Decade built · 1920s

Built in the 1920s

Warren Harding took office in 1921, Calvin Coolidge succeeded him in 1923 and Herbert Hoover was elected in 1928. The census of 1920 was the first to count more Americans in towns and cities than on farms. Prohibition was in force and the automobile and the radio spread quickly. The stock market crashed in October 1929.

2,101 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1920s on record. They stand in 52 states and territories. 22 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.

2,101

Listings

States

National Historic Landmarks

Historic districts

By state

California 124 Washington 111 Oregon 97 North Carolina 95 Wisconsin 93 Florida 85 Michigan 85 Oklahoma 83 Illinois 79 New York 71 Tennessee 70 South Dakota 67 Utah 67 Kansas 62 Massachusetts 57 Pennsylvania 57 Arizona 51 Ohio 48 New Mexico 45 Minnesota 39 Texas 39 Colorado 35 Montana 32 Mississippi 31 Iowa 30 Arkansas 29 Idaho 29 Louisiana 29 Alabama 28 Missouri 28 Indiana 26 Puerto Rico 26 District of Columbia 24 Nebraska 24 New Jersey 23 South Carolina 22 Virginia 22 Georgia 20Maine 19Kentucky 17Connecticut 13West Virginia 10Wyoming 10Nevada 9Alaska 8Hawaii 6Vermont 6Rhode Island 5Maryland 4North Dakota 4Delaware 3New Hampshire 3

Longest-lived styles of the decade

Style	In the 1920s	Dated examples, all decades	Years in use
Neoclassical	224	1023	1680 to 2016
Spanish Colonial Revival	76	144	1680 to 2014
Greek Revival	5	1093	1660 to 1987
Vernacular	9	182	1662 to 1984
Georgian	7	192	1666 to 1986
Gothic Revival	63	753	1702 to 2017
Renaissance Revival	83	482	1712 to 2015
Colonial Revival	137	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.