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  2. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    Bronck House, Coxsackie, NY, built 1663; Dutch Colonial. Developed from around 1630 with the arrival of Dutch colonists to New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley in what is now New York [9] and in Bergen in what is now New Jersey. [10] [11] Initially the settlers built small, one room cottages with stone walls and steep roofs to allow a ...

  3. First Period - Wikipedia

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    The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, the oldest still-standing timber structure in North America, was built in c. 1637. First Period is an American architecture style originating between approximately 1626 and 1725, used primarily by British colonists during the settlement of the British colonies of North America, particularly in Massachusetts and Virginia.

  4. 1700 in architecture - Wikipedia

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    Brown House, Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca , Santiago de Cuba (begun 1638), by Giovanni Battista Antonelli DeWint House , Tappan, New York , USA, by Daniel DeClark

  5. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    The concrete was made of nothing more than rubble and mortar. It was cheap and very easy to produce and required relatively unskilled labour to use, enabling the Romans to build on an unprecedented scale. They not only used it for walls but also to form arches, barrel vaults and domes, which they built over huge spans. The Romans developed ...

  6. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    These farmers tended to work the fields alongside the people they enslaved. [5] Of the estimated 46,200 plantations existing in 1860, 20,700 had 20 to 30 enslaved people and 2,300 had a workforce of a hundred or more, with the rest somewhere in between. [4] Many plantations were operated by absentee-landowners and never had a main house on site.

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish colonized Florida in the 16th century, with their communities reaching a peak in the late 17th century. In the British and French colonies, most colonists arrived after 1700. They cleared land, built houses and outbuildings, and worked on the large plantations that dominated export agriculture. Many were involved in the labor ...

  8. Category : Buildings and structures completed in the 1700s

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    Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in the 1700s" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. Cape Cod (house) - Wikipedia

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    Cape Cod–style house c. 1920. The Cape Cod house is defined as the classic 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.