Decade built · 1980s

Built in the 1980s

Ronald Reagan served through the decade. A sharp recession in 1981 and 1982 was followed by a long recovery, and the federal rehabilitation tax credit written into the 1981 tax act was scaled back in 1986. Personal computers reached ordinary offices and homes for the first time.

99 places on the National Register have a construction year in the 1980s on record. They stand in 38 states and territories. Of those, 11 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.

Listings

States

National Historic Landmarks

Historic districts

By state

Hawaii 6Pennsylvania 6Arizona 5Florida 5Michigan 5New York 5Virginia 5Georgia 4Missouri 4Ohio 4Alabama 3Iowa 3Massachusetts 3Minnesota 3New Hampshire 3South Carolina 3Texas 3Arkansas 2Maryland 2New Jersey 2Oklahoma 2Puerto Rico 2Tennessee 2Vermont 2Washington 2California 1Connecticut 1District of Columbia 1Idaho 1Illinois 1Indiana 1Maine 1Mississippi 1North Carolina 1New Mexico 1Oregon 1Utah 1Wisconsin 1

Longest-lived styles of the decade

Style	In the 1980s	Dated examples, all decades	Years in use
Greek Revival	6	1334	1660 to 2010
Neoclassical	2	1199	1680 to 2016
Gothic Revival	2	807	1698 to 2017
Colonial Revival	5	911	1690 to 1998
Queen Anne style	3	1126	1753 to 1989
Modern	3	232	1801 to 1996
Romanesque Revival	3	573	1830 to 1994

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.