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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 ...
These houses may simply be called plank houses. Some building historians prefer the term plank-on-frame. Plank-frame houses are known from the 17th century with concentrations in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. The carpentry consists of a timber frame with vertical planks extending from sill ...
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.
Roofs were largely thatched. Houses were small and gathered around a large communal hall. Monasticism spread more sophisticated building techniques. The Cistercians may have been responsible for reintroducing brick-making to the area [clarification needed] from the Netherlands, through Denmark and Northern Germany to Poland leading to ...
The colonial meeting house was the central focus of every New England town, and was usually the largest building in the town. They were simple buildings with no statues, decorations, stained glass, or crosses on the walls. Box pews were provided for families, and single men and women (and slaves) usually sat in the balconies. Large windows were ...
Only First Period houses built prior to 1728 are suitable for inclusion on this list or the building must be the oldest of its type. The Fairbanks House (built 1641) is the oldest house verified using dendrochronology, followed by the James Blake House (built in 1661), but most First Period structures in Massachusetts have not yet been tested ...
They included a cookhouse (separate kitchen building), pantry, washhouse , smokehouse, chicken house, spring house or ice house, milkhouse , covered well, and cistern. The privies would have been located some distance away from the plantation house and kitchen yard.
While this house was given to John Hiram Perkins in 1694, others lived in the residence as early as the 1660s. Much of the original house remains such as the six fireplaces in a central chimney, paneling, and floor boards. The double walls present in the house were built after 1700, and all of the windows have since been replaced.