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2. Hall and parlor house - Wikipedia

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   Behind the hall is the parlor. The hall may have been used for cooking, while the parlor was the general living space and bedroom. [4] In colonial America, hall-and-parlor houses were two rooms wide and one deep. They were often one and a half stories tall, with a steeply pitched side-gabled roof. The style was at one time so ubiquitous that it ...

3. Pilgrim's Rest (Nokesville, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   It dates to the 18th century, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, Tidewater style, frame dwelling with a double-pile, side hall plan. It has a one-story, gable-roofed, rebuilt kitchen and dining addition dated to 1956, when the house was remodeled.

4. 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 ...

5. Buttery (room) - Wikipedia

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   The buttery was then situated to one side of the screens passage, which sectioned off the low end of the Great Hall. The screens passage generally had two or three doors on the side opposite its entrances into the Great Hall, which led, respectively, to the buttery, kitchen, and pantry, each of which formed separate household departments.

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

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   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

7. 'Dexter' Star Michael C. Hall's Spanish Colonial in LA (House ...

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   The actor's latest purchase -- a beautifully restored 1923 Spanish colonial home -- has. ... Michael C. Hall's real estate bar must be set high. The actor's latest purchase -- a beautifully ...