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Building type sorts buildings by the specific kind of structure each one is, such as a church, a tower or a house. The Sagrada Familia is described by Wikipedia as "a Catholic church in the Eixample district of Barcelona," a precise type distinct from a palace or a museum. This dimension lets a visitor find every building of one exact kind.

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Earliest Attested Era
9500 BCE 1
Building Type

Abbey

Building Type
2 entries

A-bombed building

Building Type
1 entry

Adobe mosque

Building Type
1 entry

Adobe Pueblo Complex

Building Type
1 entry

African-American museum

Building Type
1 entry

Airport

Building Type
1 entry

Airport Terminal

Building Type
10 entries

Almshouse

Building Type
1 entry

Amphitheater

Building Type
1 entry

Ancient Assyrian city

Building Type
1 entry

Ancient capital city (archaeological site)

Building Type
1 entry

Ancient city

Building Type
11 entries

Ancient city (archaeological site)

Building Type
1 entry

ancient city (settlement)

Building Type
1 entry

Ancient City Ruins

Building Type
2 entries

Ancient Egyptian temple complex

Building Type
2 entries

ancient Roman town preserved by a volcanic pyroclastic flow

Building Type
1 entry

Anglican cathedral

Building Type
6 entries

Anglican church

Building Type
1 entry

Antebellum plantation

Building Type
1 entry

Apartment Building

Building Type
2 entries

Apartment building complex

Building Type
1 entry

Arch bridge

Building Type
1 entry

Archaeological site

Building Type
10 entries

Archaeological site (Native American city site)

Building Type
1 entry

Archaeological tell of an ancient city and kingdom

Building Type
1 entry

Archaeology museum

Building Type
1 entry

Architect's house and studio

Building Type
1 entry

Architectural ensemble

Building Type
1 entry

Art Museum

Building Type
25 entries

art museum in a former Beaux-Arts railway station

Building Type
1 entry

art museum, International Style building

Building Type
1 entry

art museum, Neoclassical building

Building Type
1 entry

Artist's house

Building Type
1 entry

Bahai House of Worship

Building Type
1 entry

Bandeirista house

Building Type
2 entries

Bank Headquarters

Building Type
1 entry

Baroque palace

Building Type
1 entry

Bascule bridge

Building Type
1 entry

Basilica

Building Type
7 entries

Basilica and Mosque

Building Type
1 entry

Bastion fortress

Building Type
1 entry

Bastioned fort

Building Type
1 entry

Bazaar

Building Type
1 entry

Bell Tower

Building Type
1 entry

Brewery

Building Type
5 entries

Brick Gothic castle complex

Building Type
1 entry

Bridge

Building Type
1 entry

Broadcast tower

Building Type
1 entry

Broadcasting and observation tower

Building Type
1 entry

Buddhist Monastery Complex

Building Type
1 entry

Buddhist Stepped-Pyramid Temple

Building Type
1 entry

Buddhist Stupa Complex

Building Type
1 entry

Buddhist temple

Building Type
2 entries

Buddhist temple (wat)

Building Type
1 entry

Buddhist Temple Complex

Building Type
2 entries

Building complex

Building Type
1 entry

Building of public administration

Building Type
1 entry

Bus terminal

Building Type
1 entry

Cable-stayed bridge

Building Type
1 entry

Cantilever bridge

Building Type
1 entry

capital of the Hittite Empire

Building Type
1 entry

Capitol building

Building Type
5 entries

Casa grande

Building Type
1 entry

Castle

Building Type
67 entries

Castle and hotel

Building Type
1 entry

Castle residency

Building Type
2 entries

castle, museum

Building Type
1 entry

Cathedral

Building Type
15 entries

Catholic cathedral

Building Type
1 entry

Cave

Building Type
1 entry

Cave castle

Building Type
1 entry

Cemetery chapel

Building Type
1 entry

central-passage house

Building Type
1 entry

Château

Building Type
1 entry

Chapel

Building Type
7 entries

chateau

Building Type
1 entry

Church

Building Type
33 entries

Church of England cathedral

Building Type
1 entry

Circular colonnade supporting a roof, without walls

Building Type
1 entry

Citadel

Building Type
5 entries

City

Building Type
2 entries

City gate

Building Type
9 entries

City Hall

Building Type
12 entries

City hall (former post office)

Building Type
1 entry

city hall, government offices

Building Type
1 entry

City palace

Building Type
1 entry

Clock tower

Building Type
3 entries

coastal fortress

Building Type
1 entry

Comfort station

Building Type
9 entries

Commercial office skyscraper

Building Type
4 entries

Commercial offices

Building Type
3 entries

Commercial offices, retail

Building Type
1 entry

Commercial Skyscraper

Building Type
1 entry

Communal Meeting House

Building Type
1 entry

Communication and observation tower

Building Type
1 entry

Communications and observation tower

Building Type
1 entry

concentric castle

Building Type
1 entry

Concert Hall

Building Type
6 entries

Congregational Mosque

Building Type
2 entries

Corporate administration building

Building Type
1 entry

Corporate headquarters

Building Type
4 entries

Cottage orné

Building Type
1 entry

Council housing estate

Building Type
1 entry

Country estate

Building Type
1 entry

Country House

Building Type
25 entries

Court

Building Type
1 entry

Courthouse

Building Type
2 entries

Creole cottage

Building Type
1 entry

Crusader castle

Building Type
1 entry

Cultural property

Building Type
3 entries

Cycladic Bronze Age settlement

Building Type
1 entry

Deck arch bridge

Building Type
2 entries

Deluxe hotel

Building Type
1 entry

Department store

Building Type
5 entries

Desert fortification

Building Type
1 entry

Design and engineering center

Building Type
1 entry

Design museum

Building Type
1 entry

Destroyed building or structure

Building Type
1 entry

Double house

Building Type
2 entries

Dutch Colonial frame house

Building Type
1 entry

Dzong-Style Palace Complex (Museum)

Building Type
1 entry

Early skyscraper

Building Type
1 entry

Education museum

Building Type
1 entry

Egyptian pyramids

Building Type
1 entry

Elementary school in Japan

Building Type
1 entry

Entertainment and retail complex

Building Type
1 entry

Episcopal palace

Building Type
7 entries

Estate

Building Type
1 entry

Event venue

Building Type
1 entry

Exhibition Building

Building Type
2 entries

Factory

Building Type
4 entries

Farm

Building Type
103 entries

Five-star luxury hotel

Building Type
1 entry

Fluted Doric column

Building Type
1 entry

Folly

Building Type
1 entry

Food market

Building Type
1 entry

Former church building

Building Type
1 entry

Former convent

Building Type
1 entry

Former fortress and royal residence

Building Type
1 entry

Former hospital

Building Type
1 entry

Former plantation estate

Building Type
1 entry

Former royal palace

Building Type
1 entry

Former school building

Building Type
12 entries

Fort

Building Type
16 entries

Fortification

Building Type
9 entries

Fortification System

Building Type
2 entries

fortified citadel

Building Type
1 entry

Fortified Complex

Building Type
1 entry

Fortified Earthen Dwelling

Building Type
1 entry

Fortified palace (citadel)

Building Type
1 entry

Fortress

Building Type
17 entries

Fortress and museum

Building Type
1 entry

frame house

Building Type
1 entry

Funerary Complex

Building Type
1 entry

Furniture museum

Building Type
1 entry

Gate (point of entry to an enclosed space)

Building Type
1 entry

Georgian mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Georgian-style mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Georgian-style two-story brick mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Gilded Age summer mansion, house museum

Building Type
1 entry

Gilded Buddhist stupa

Building Type
1 entry

Gothic Catholic cathedral

Building Type
1 entry

Gothic Church

Building Type
1 entry

Gothic Revival castle-style mansion and house museum

Building Type
1 entry

Gothic Revival Parliament Building

Building Type
1 entry

Government building

Building Type
3 entries

Government Complex

Building Type
1 entry

Government offices

Building Type
1 entry

Great Camps

Building Type
8 entries

Greek Revival and Italianate-styled mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Greek Revival mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Greek Revival plantation house

Building Type
1 entry

Hall and parlor house

Building Type
4 entries

Han school

Building Type
1 entry

Haveli

Building Type
3 entries

High-rise office tower

Building Type
1 entry

Hillfort or fortified Māori settlement

Building Type
1 entry

hilltop Japanese castle complex

Building Type
1 entry

Hindu Sun Temple

Building Type
1 entry

Hindu Temple Complex

Building Type
4 entries

Historic building

Building Type
8 entries

Historic farm

Building Type
1 entry

Historic house

Building Type
199 entries

Historic house museum

Building Type
12 entries

Historic luxury hotel

Building Type
1 entry

Historic site

Building Type
3 entries

Historic Spanish eclectic style hotel

Building Type
1 entry

Historical civil building museum

Building Type
2 entries

Horse stud farm

Building Type
4 entries

Hotel

Building Type
56 entries

Hotel and bungalow resort

Building Type
1 entry

Hotel and resort

Building Type
1 entry

Hotel Complex

Building Type
2 entries

hôtel particulier, official presidential residence

Building Type
1 entry

Hotel, Office

Building Type
1 entry

Hotel, Office, Serviced Apartments

Building Type
1 entry

House

Building Type
264 entries

House (villa)

Building Type
2 entries

House and art gallery

Building Type
1 entry

House museum

Building Type
1 entry

Housing Complex

Building Type
1 entry

housing estate

Building Type
1 entry

H-shaped colonial plantation house

Building Type
1 entry

Imperial Fishing Lodge

Building Type
1 entry

Information kiosk

Building Type
1 entry

Institute building

Building Type
1 entry

Integrated Resort

Building Type
2 entries

Intermodal transport station

Building Type
1 entry

International airport

Building Type
6 entries

Iron Age hillfort

Building Type
1 entry

Italian Renaissance-revival villa, house museum

Building Type
1 entry

Jain temple

Building Type
1 entry

Ksar

Building Type
1 entry

Legislative Building

Building Type
3 entries

Legislative building, seat of parliament

Building Type
1 entry

Legislative palace, seat of the National Assembly

Building Type
1 entry

Library

Building Type
10 entries

Library building

Building Type
2 entries

Lighthouse

Building Type
4 entries

Literary museum

Building Type
1 entry

Livery hall

Building Type
1 entry

Location used for a concert or musical performance

Building Type
1 entry

Log cabin

Building Type
1 entry

Luxury five-star hotel

Building Type
1 entry

Luxury hotel

Building Type
2 entries

Mahavihara, monastery

Building Type
1 entry

Manor

Building Type
9 entries

Manor house

Building Type
4 entries

Mansion

Building Type
62 entries

Mansion and plantation

Building Type
1 entry

Market

Building Type
1 entry

Masia

Building Type
3 entries

Masonry fort

Building Type
1 entry

Mausoleum

Building Type
3 entries

Maya city-state

Building Type
1 entry

Medical center

Building Type
1 entry

Medieval fortress

Building Type
1 entry

Megatall Skyscraper

Building Type
2 entries

Megatall Skyscraper (Under Construction)

Building Type
1 entry

Mews

Building Type
3 entries

Military cemetery and memorial

Building Type
8 entries

Military museum

Building Type
1 entry

Military museum building

Building Type
2 entries

Minoan palace

Building Type
1 entry

Mixed-use (hotel, residential, retail, office)

Building Type
1 entry

Mixed-use (office, residential and hotel)

Building Type
1 entry

Mixed-use (residential, hotel and commercial)

Building Type
1 entry

Mixed-Use Complex

Building Type
2 entries

Mixed-Use Development

Building Type
1 entry

Mixed-use residential and commercial skyscraper

Building Type
1 entry

Mixed-Use Supertall Skyscraper

Building Type
4 entries

Mixed-use tower with commercial office and rental apartments

Building Type
1 entry

Moated castle

Building Type
1 entry

Model village

Building Type
1 entry

Modern art museum

Building Type
1 entry

Modernist building

Building Type
1 entry

Monastery

Building Type
8 entries

Monument

Building Type
34 entries

Mosque

Building Type
17 entries

Mosque-Cathedral

Building Type
1 entry

Mountain hut

Building Type
1 entry

Movie theater

Building Type
1 entry

Multifamily residential

Building Type
2 entries

Multi-purpose hall

Building Type
1 entry

Multi-story urban building

Building Type
1 entry

Multi-use tower (offices and apartments)

Building Type
1 entry

Museum

Building Type
74 entries

Museum and memorial

Building Type
1 entry

Museum complex

Building Type
1 entry

Museum for an artifact of industrial archaeology

Building Type
1 entry

Music venue

Building Type
1 entry

Mycenaean hill fort (citadel)

Building Type
1 entry

National Historical Park

Building Type
1 entry

national memorial

Building Type
3 entries

National monument

Building Type
1 entry

National museum

Building Type
1 entry

neo-Gothic parliament building

Building Type
1 entry

Neo-Gothic Skyscraper

Building Type
2 entries

Neolithic and Chalcolithic tell settlement, proto-city

Building Type
1 entry

Neolithic archaeological site

Building Type
1 entry

Neolithic defensive stone wall and tower at Tell es-Sultan

Building Type
1 entry

Neolithic settlement

Building Type
1 entry

Neo-Palladian villa plantation house

Building Type
1 entry

Neo-Renaissance palace (castle)

Building Type
1 entry

Observation Tower

Building Type
10 entries

octagonal house

Building Type
1 entry

Office

Building Type
15 entries

Office and retail

Building Type
1 entry

Office and retail building

Building Type
1 entry

Office Building

Building Type
8 entries

Office building, observation deck

Building Type
1 entry

Office skyscraper

Building Type
5 entries

Office Tower

Building Type
8 entries

Office tower, residential and bank complex

Building Type
1 entry

Office, hotel and retail

Building Type
1 entry

Office, observation deck, and retail

Building Type
1 entry

Official residence and workplace of the president

Building Type
1 entry

Official workplace of the President of Argentina

Building Type
1 entry

Open-air venue

Building Type
1 entry

Opera House

Building Type
10 entries

Ottoman imperial mosque

Building Type
2 entries

Palace

Building Type
100 entries

Palace (chateau)

Building Type
1 entry

Palace (complex of royal buildings)

Building Type
1 entry

Palace and government building

Building Type
1 entry

Palace Complex

Building Type
3 entries

Palace complex and art museum

Building Type
1 entry

Palace museum complex

Building Type
1 entry

Palace of Fine Arts

Building Type
1 entry

palace, official presidential residence

Building Type
1 entry

palace, private residence

Building Type
1 entry

Palace, seat of the Chamber of Deputies

Building Type
1 entry

palace, Venetian Gothic style

Building Type
1 entry

Palace-monastery

Building Type
1 entry

Palazzo museum

Building Type
1 entry

Panhellenic religious sanctuary complex

Building Type
1 entry

Parliament

Building Type
1 entry

Parliament Building

Building Type
18 entries

parliament buildings

Building Type
1 entry

Parliament complex

Building Type
1 entry

Parliament house, now a museum

Building Type
1 entry

Partly excavated Berber-Roman city (archaeological site)

Building Type
1 entry

passage tomb

Building Type
1 entry

Performing arts building

Building Type
2 entries

Performing arts center

Building Type
1 entry

Performing arts centre (opera house, concert hall, theatre)

Building Type
1 entry

Plantation

Building Type
198 entries

Plantation and historic home

Building Type
1 entry

Plantation complex

Building Type
1 entry

Plantation complex and house museum

Building Type
1 entry

Plantation House

Building Type
131 entries

Plantation mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Platform mound (earthwork)

Building Type
1 entry

Pogost

Building Type
1 entry

Polis

Building Type
1 entry

Power station

Building Type
1 entry

Pre-Columbian City

Building Type
2 entries

prehistoric megalithic structure

Building Type
1 entry

Presidential office building

Building Type
1 entry

Presidential palace

Building Type
1 entry

Presidential Residence

Building Type
2 entries

Prison

Building Type
1 entry

Prison island

Building Type
1 entry

Provincial school (Japan)

Building Type
1 entry

Public library

Building Type
1 entry

Public school

Building Type
1 entry

Pyramid

Building Type
20 entries

Railroad station

Building Type
1 entry

Railway Station

Building Type
42 entries

Railway station (intermodal transit hub)

Building Type
1 entry

Railway Station (mainline terminus)

Building Type
1 entry

Railway station and central transportation hub

Building Type
1 entry

Railway station terminus

Building Type
3 entries

Railway terminal

Building Type
3 entries

Railway Terminal (commuter rail hub)

Building Type
1 entry

Railway terminus

Building Type
1 entry

Railway Terminus (heritage station)

Building Type
1 entry

Railway Terminus (international rail hub)

Building Type
1 entry

Rathaus

Building Type
1 entry

reconstructed plantation house

Building Type
1 entry

Rectangular enclosure castle

Building Type
1 entry

Reinforced security room

Building Type
1 entry

Religious museum

Building Type
1 entry

Research institute

Building Type
1 entry

Research library

Building Type
2 entries

Residence

Building Type
1 entry

Residential

Building Type
23 entries

Residential and hotel

Building Type
1 entry

Residential and Office Tower

Building Type
1 entry

Residential apartment building

Building Type
1 entry

Residential apartment building, observation tower

Building Type
1 entry

Residential maisonette block

Building Type
1 entry

Residential Skyscraper

Building Type
5 entries

Residential, Office

Building Type
1 entry

Residential, single-family house museum

Building Type
1 entry

Rice plantation

Building Type
1 entry

Richardsonian Romanesque mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Rocca

Building Type
1 entry

Rock Fortress

Building Type
1 entry

Rock-cut Hindu temple

Building Type
1 entry

Rock-Cut Temple

Building Type
1 entry

Rock-cut tomb

Building Type
1 entry

Rock-Hewn Monolithic Church

Building Type
1 entry

Roman amphitheatre

Building Type
2 entries

Roman triumphal column

Building Type
1 entry

Romanticist palace

Building Type
1 entry

Roundhouse

Building Type
2 entries

Royal Chateau

Building Type
1 entry

Royal Monastery and Palace Complex

Building Type
1 entry

Royal Palace

Building Type
6 entries

Royal palace complex, official royal residence

Building Type
1 entry

Royal palace, now parliament building

Building Type
1 entry

Royal Residence

Building Type
2 entries

Royal tomb complex (thatched dome structure)

Building Type
1 entry

Ruined mansion

Building Type
1 entry

Ruins

Building Type
1 entry

Rumah adat

Building Type
1 entry

Russian Orthodox Cathedral

Building Type
1 entry

sacred precinct

Building Type
1 entry

School building

Building Type
1 entry

Scientific research institute

Building Type
1 entry

Sea fortress

Building Type
1 entry

Seat of government and presidential offices

Building Type
1 entry

Seat of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Building Type
1 entry

Settlement

Building Type
6 entries

Shinto Shrine

Building Type
3 entries

Shophouse

Building Type
2 entries

Shopping center

Building Type
2 entries

Shrine

Building Type
4 entries

Single-family detached home

Building Type
6 entries

Skyscraper

Building Type
31 entries

Skyscraper complex

Building Type
2 entries

Slope house

Building Type
1 entry

Small fortification

Building Type
1 entry

Smooth-sided pyramid

Building Type
12 entries

Sobrado

Building Type
1 entry

Stable

Building Type
1 entry

Stadium

Building Type
3 entries

Star fort

Building Type
1 entry

State Archive

Building Type
1 entry

State historic site in the United States

Building Type
2 entries

Stately home

Building Type
1 entry

Stepwell

Building Type
14 entries

Stone bridge

Building Type
3 entries

Stone City Ruins

Building Type
1 entry

Stone farmhouse

Building Type
1 entry

Stupa and surrounding buildings

Building Type
1 entry

Sugarcane plantation

Building Type
1 entry

Sumerian city-state (ancient city)

Building Type
1 entry

Summer palace

Building Type
1 entry

summer residence

Building Type
1 entry

Supermarket

Building Type
1 entry

Supertall Skyscraper

Building Type
20 entries

Supertall skyscraper twin towers

Building Type
1 entry

Suspension bridge

Building Type
3 entries

Synagogue

Building Type
9 entries

tabby fortified house

Building Type
1 entry

Telecommunication tower

Building Type
2 entries

Telecommunications and observation tower

Building Type
1 entry

Television and radio tower

Building Type
1 entry

Television Tower

Building Type
6 entries

Temple

Building Type
12 entries

Temple Complex

Building Type
2 entries

Tenement

Building Type
1 entry

Theatre building

Building Type
2 entries

Through arch bridge

Building Type
1 entry

Tilt bridge

Building Type
1 entry

Timber-framed house

Building Type
5 entries

Tong lau

Building Type
2 entries

Tower

Building Type
6 entries

Tower mill

Building Type
1 entry

Tower, museum and exhibition place

Building Type
1 entry

Town Hall

Building Type
6 entries

Town hall (municipal building)

Building Type
1 entry

Traditional stilt house with a curved saddleback roof

Building Type
1 entry

Trailside museum

Building Type
1 entry

Tram depot

Building Type
1 entry

transit center

Building Type
1 entry

Transportation Hub

Building Type
1 entry

Triumphal arch

Building Type
4 entries

Tumulus (burial mound)

Building Type
1 entry

two-and-half story building

Building Type
1 entry

Underground home

Building Type
1 entry

Underground living

Building Type
2 entries

Unfinished pyramid shaped skyscraper

Building Type
1 entry

Veterans home

Building Type
5 entries

Victorian house

Building Type
1 entry

Victory column

Building Type
1 entry

Villa

Building Type
238 entries

Walled temple city (Khmer capital)

Building Type
1 entry

War memorial

Building Type
3 entries

War memorial sculpture

Building Type
1 entry

Wat

Building Type
1 entry

Water well

Building Type
1 entry

Well house

Building Type
3 entries

Wooden building

Building Type
1 entry

Working farm and estate

Building Type
1 entry

Zen Buddhist Temple

Building Type
2 entries
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Sources
1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: Gobekli Tepe, Chronology
Quote, Wikipedia: Gobekli Tepe, Chronology
Radiocarbon dating shows that the earliest exposed structures at Göbekli Tepe were built between 9500 and 9000 BCE, towards the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period.
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Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture
Banister Fletcher, edited by Dan Cruickshank (20th edition), Architectural Press, 1996
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