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  2. Central-passage house - Wikipedia

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    Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...

  3. Hall and parlor house - Wikipedia

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    Behind the hall is the parlor. The hall may have been used for cooking, while the parlor was the general living space and bedroom. [4] In colonial America, hall-and-parlor houses were two rooms wide and one deep. They were often one and a half stories tall, with a steeply pitched side-gabled roof. The style was at one time so ubiquitous that it ...

  4. Queen Anne style furniture - Wikipedia

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    Walnut and burr walnut veneer side chair attributed to Giles Grendey, London, c. 1740 (Art Institute of Chicago) Ornamentation is minimal, in contrast to earlier 17th-century and William and Mary styles, which prominently featured inlay, figured veneers, paint, and carving. The cabriole leg is the "most recognizable element" of Queen Anne ...

  5. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    In Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas, a style called "Southern Colonial" is recognized, characterized by the hall and parlor and central-passage house types, which often had large chimneys projecting from the gable-ends of the house. In the Delaware Valley, Swedish colonial settlers introduced the log cabin to America.

  6. County courthouse architecture in colonial America - Wikipedia

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    The English hundreds of the American colonial period were roughly proportional in population and powers to a colonial American county. [ 2 ] Each English shire and hundred during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries would have contained a moot hall, or meeting hall , where local executive, legislative, and juridical business would have been ...

  7. Dutch Colonial Revival architecture - Wikipedia

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    Dutch Colonial is a style of domestic architecture, primarily characterized by gambrel roofs having curved eaves along the length of the house. Modern versions built in the early 20th century are more accurately referred to as "Dutch Colonial Revival", a subtype of the Colonial Revival style.

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