H The neighborhoods of Lansing present the broad spectrum of architectural styles and building types. The oldest structures in Lansing date from the 1840s and 1850s, but these survivors are few and far between. The predominant house type in Lansing is the gable-front farmhouse, followed closely by the upright-and-wing (sometimes called the gable-front-and-wing). Houses built of this type date from the 1860s to the present, with the largest number dating from between 1870 and the early 1900s.

The next most prevalent house type in the city is the four-square, which was built beginning in the 1880s and continued into the 1940s. Four-square type houses are spread across the city, with most concentrated in the downtown area, the west side to Verlinden Street , and the south side to Holmes Road . Most of the four-squares built after 1910 were purchased in kit form from Aladdin Homes of Bay City , or from Sears and Roebuck of Chicago.