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Building styles in the 13 colonies were influenced by techniques and styles from England, as well as traditions brought by settlers from other parts of Europe. In New England, 17th-century colonial houses were built primarily from wood, following styles found in the southeastern counties of England. Saltbox style homes and Cape Cod style homes ...
This latter house was built from the first as a two-over-two room central chimney plan structure. At some point at a later date a lean-to was added which has since been replaced. The "fine sheathing" in the chambers, the front stairs, and the current chimney all date to the early 18th century. Restorations to the house were later done in 1956 ...
The house then passed in ownership to John's son who is believed to have added the eastern portion of the house in 1730. [39] At some point in the late 1890s the house was moved to a new stone foundation, and was modernized/remodeled with an ell added to the rear.
Cape Cod–style house c. 1920. The Cape Cod house is defined as the classic North American house. In the original design, Cape Cod houses had the following features: symmetry, steep roofs, central chimneys, windows at the door, flat design, one to one-and-a-half stories, narrow stairways, and simple exteriors.
Saltbox House Style. This distinctive New England house style dates back to the 1600s, and its defining characteristic is a lopsided roof that allows for two stories in the front of the house, but ...
Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut. A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.
It is an excellent example of early New England colonial architecture. White–Ellery House: Gloucester: 1710 Affirmed traditional date in survey carried out around 2012. [citation needed] Choate-Caldwell House: Ipswich: 1710 House is on display in Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The oldest rear portion of the house dates to ...
Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house. An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002. A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1]