Decade built · 1730s

Built in the 1730s

Georgia was chartered in 1732 and settled at Savannah the next year, the last of the thirteen colonies. The Great Awakening began in the Connecticut Valley and spread after George Whitefield started preaching in the colonies. Newspapers and printing shops multiplied in the larger ports.

79 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1730s on record. They stand in 20 states and territories. Of those, 6 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 November 02, 2026.

79
Listings
20
States
6
National Historic Landmarks
2
Historic districts

By state

Massachusetts 29New York 12New Jersey 9Connecticut 5South Carolina 4Virginia 3North Carolina 2Pennsylvania 2Texas 2Alabama 1Delaware 1Guam 1Indiana 1Louisiana 1Maryland 1Minnesota 1New Hampshire 1Puerto Rico 1Rhode Island 1U.S. Virgin Islands 1

Longest-lived styles of the decade

StyleIn the 1730sYears in use
Greek Revival31660 to 2010
Georgian171645 to 1986
Federal41674 to 1996
Colonial161641 to 1956
Colonial Revival41690 to 1998
Spanish Colonial21628 to 1933
American colonial21665 to 1913
First Period61641 to 1750

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 November 02, 2026.

Places with full records

Hampton PlantationNHL1970
Mission ConcepcionNHL1970
Old Ursuline ConventNHL1966
HopseweeNHL1971
Schaeffer HouseNHL2011
Hancock-Clarke HouseNHL1971

The other 73 listings from this decade are on the state pages above and on their county pages.