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Oldest church in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States; only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America. [56] Hurd House: Woodbury: CT 1681 Residential The older, north section, dates to around 1680 and was the home of John Hurd, who became the town's miller in 1681.
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 were some of the simplest of homes constructed in the New England colonies.
17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd ... Pages in category "Houses completed in the 17th century" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 215 ...
Timber framing, historically called a braced frame, was the most common method of building wooden buildings in America [2] from the 17th-century European settlements until the early 20th century when timber framing was replaced by balloon framing and then platform framing in houses and what was called plank or "joist" framing in barns.
These were restored along with the original 17th century appearance sometime in the early 20th century. Merchant–Choate House Ipswich: 1671 This seventeenth century home is also known as the "Tuttle House". Dendrochronological dating shows the earliest portions of the house were completed sometime in 1671 with later additions.
Known as America’s largest home, the Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina, was built for George Vanderbilt and his family in the late 1800s. The 250-room castle is set on 8,000 acres and has a ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The American gentry were rich landowning members of the American upper class in the colonial Southern United States. Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of George Washington. George Washington. The Colonial American use of gentry was not common. Historians use it to refer to rich landowners in the South before 1776.