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[10] [11] Initially the settlers built small, one room cottages with stone walls and steep roofs to allow a second floor loft. By 1670 or so, two-story gable-end homes were common in New Amsterdam. [12] In the countryside of the Hudson Valley, the Dutch farmhouse evolved into a linear-plan home with straight-edged gables moved to the end walls.
Towers completed in 1800 (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in 1800" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Sterne-Hoya House was built in Nacogdoches, in 1830 by Texas Revolution leader Adolphus Sterne as a dogtrot, although the open breezeway was later enclosed. [28] On site at the East Texas Arboretum sits the Wofford House, built in 1850 by B. W. J. Wofford. The now-restored home was moved to the arboretum in 2001 from Henderson County. [29]
Part of the larger Victorian architectural style, Queen Anne homes became popular in America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These elegant homes typically feature a variety of building ...
One of the oldest houses in Orange County, New York. Built by early settlers William Bull and Sarah Wells; continuously owned by Bull family descendants. Brafferton Building: Williamsburg: VA 1723 School Opened in 1723 as the Indian school for the College of William & Mary, restored in 1930–31, now serving as the president and provost office
Buildings and structures completed in 1800 (11 C, 17 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1801 (14 C, 7 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1802 (12 C, 11 P)
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
Barrington Hall is one classic example of an antebellum home.. Antebellum architecture (from Antebellum South, Latin for "pre-war") is the neoclassical architectural style characteristic of the 19th-century Southern United States, especially the Deep South, from after the birth of the United States with the American Revolution, to the start of the American Civil War. [1]