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  2. American colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    These basic houses featured double-pitched hipped roofs and were surrounded by porches (galleries) to handle the hot summer climate. By 1770, the basic French Colonial house form evolved into the briquette-entre-poteaux (small bricks between posts) style familiar in the historic areas of New Orleans and other areas. These homes featured double ...

  3. List of historic houses in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Green Spring Plantation, James City County - home of governor Sir William Berkeley site of Bacon's Rebellion, ruins; Greenway Plantation c. 1776, Charles City County, birthplace U.S. President John Tyler. The Governor's Palace, Williamsburg - home of Virginia's colonial governors, reconstruction; Gunston Hall, 1755, Fairfax County — home of ...

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

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    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 ...

  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. A Complete Guide to American ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. A Complete Guide to American Colonial-Style Houses

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  8. List of the oldest buildings in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    House One of NC's oldest colonial homes. The original western frame section was built about 1747, with the eastern brick section built between 1787 and 1796. National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Old Brick House: Pasquotank County: ca. 1750 House National Register of Historic Places, 1972. [8] Hammock House: Beaufort: ca. 1700–1750 House

  9. List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    1700 A working farm for the last 350 years. NRHP. [28] [29] Eells-Stow House: Milford: 1700 Served as a hospital during Revolutionary War, now a museum. [30] Shelley House: Madison: 1700 Dated to before 1700 by J. Frederick Kelly. Chamfered summer and girts with lambs-tongue stops [31] Pratt House: Essex: 1701 Ell dating to 1701, according to ...