Decade built · 1790s

Built in the 1790s

Washington served until 1797 and John Adams followed him. Congress placed the permanent capital on the Potomac and the new city was surveyed in 1791. The first federal census counted just under four million people in 1790, and the cotton gin of 1793 changed farming across the South.

255 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1790s on record. They stand in 27 states and territories. Of those, 23 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.

255

Listings

States

National Historic Landmarks

Historic districts

By state

Massachusetts 54 New York 34 Maine 20North Carolina 19Connecticut 16New Jersey 14District of Columbia 13Tennessee 13Pennsylvania 10Kentucky 8West Virginia 8Maryland 7Virginia 6Vermont 6Louisiana 4Georgia 3Mississippi 3Rhode Island 3Alaska 2California 2New Hampshire 2Ohio 2South Carolina 2Alabama 1Hawaii 1Illinois 1New Mexico 1

Longest-lived styles of the decade

Style	In the 1790s	Dated examples, all decades	Years in use
Greek Revival	12	1334	1660 to 2010
Georgian	27	264	1645 to 1986
Neoclassical	4	1199	1680 to 2016
Federal	84	751	1674 to 1996
Renaissance Revival	5	558	1695 to 2015
Colonial	9	136	1641 to 1956
Colonial Revival	3	911	1690 to 1998
Italianate	3	869	1712 to 1988

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.