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  2. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    Corwin House, Salem, Massachusetts, built ca. 1670, First Period English. American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. [1]

  3. Colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    Morgan House is a classic example of colonial Victorian era architecture in Kalimpong, India. Westover Plantation, an example of Georgian architecture on the eastern James River, in Virginia. British colonial architecture are most visible in North America, the British West Indies, South Asia, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. North America

  4. List of the oldest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The home is now part of Salem Maritime National Historic Site. The site has 12 historic structures, including the Customs House, and a replica of the sailing ship Friendship of Salem. Elihu Akin House: Dartmouth: MA 1762 Residential Home of the Akin family, a colonial family instrumental in the American Revolutionary War in Southeastern ...

  5. A Complete Guide to American Colonial-Style Houses

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    American Colonial homes are rectangular, often two stories, and symmetrical. They are traditionally built with wood or stone and have steep, side-gabled roofs.

  6. 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.

  7. Architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Coquina is a limestone conglomerate, containing small shells of mollusks. It was used in the construction of residential homes, the City Gate, the Cathedral Basilica, the Castillo de San Marcos, and Fort Matanzas. The city of St. Augustine is one of the rare vestiges of 17th-century Spanish colonial architecture in the present day United States.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Shingle style architecture - Wikipedia

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    "Kragsyde," Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts (1883–1885, demolished 1929), Peabody and Stearns, architects. The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture.

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