Decade built · 1930s

Built in the 1930s

Hoover served until 1933 and Franklin Roosevelt held the office for the rest of the decade. The Great Depression put a quarter of the workforce out of a job at its worst, and drought emptied farms across the southern plains. New Deal agencies such as the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps put people to work on public buildings and roads.

1,470 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1930s on record. They stand in 53 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.

1,470

Listings

States

National Historic Landmarks

Historic districts

By state

Washington 96 Oklahoma 78 New York 73 New Mexico 69 Tennessee 60 Utah 59 California 58 Kansas 58 Wisconsin 55 Oregon 54 Arizona 51 Arkansas 47 North Carolina 46 Michigan 42 Montana 42 Texas 39 South Dakota 35 Colorado 30 Pennsylvania 29 Missouri 28 Illinois 27 District of Columbia 22 Iowa 22 Massachusetts 22 Minnesota 21 South Carolina 20Louisiana 19Nebraska 19Georgia 18Ohio 18Connecticut 16Idaho 16Alabama 15Kentucky 15Puerto Rico 15Alaska 13Florida 13Virginia 13Maine 12Nevada 12Mississippi 10Wyoming 9New Jersey 8Indiana 7Maryland 7North Dakota 6Vermont 5Delaware 4New Hampshire 4Hawaii 3Guam 2Rhode Island 2West Virginia 2

Longest-lived styles of the decade

Style	In the 1930s	Dated examples, all decades	Years in use
Neoclassical	74	1023	1680 to 2016
Spanish Colonial Revival	29	144	1680 to 2014
Greek Revival	3	1093	1660 to 1987
Vernacular	6	182	1662 to 1984
Georgian	4	192	1666 to 1986
Gothic Revival	14	753	1702 to 2017
Renaissance Revival	12	482	1712 to 2015
Colonial Revival	105	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.