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This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.
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 ...
Dutch House: New Castle: DE 1700 Residential Despite being called the Dutch House, the building style is more English. Benoni Fox House Concord: MA 1700 Residential This is one of the oldest buildings of the Fox family in the United States. Stanton–Davis Homestead Museum: Stonington: CT 1700 Farmhouse The farm has been worked every year since ...
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Belle Air Plantation, c. 1700, Charles City County; Bell House, 1882, Westmoreland County — summer home of Alexander Graham Bell; Belle Grove, 1790s, Pittsylvania County - a Federal style home owned by the Whitmell P. Tunstall family [3] Belle Grove, 1790, King George County - a house in Port Conway, birthplace of James Madison
The Dyckman House, now the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, is the oldest remaining farmhouse on Manhattan island, a vestige of New York City's rural past. The Dutch Colonial-style farmhouse was built by William Dyckman , c.1785, [ 3 ] and was originally part of over 250 acres (100 ha) of farmland owned by the family. [ 4 ]
By Bud Dietrich, AIA From sea to shining sea, America's most enduring home style remains the New England Colonial. It conjures up images of small-town America, the village green, Fourth of July ...