American colonial architecture

American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch, German Colonial and Georgian Colonial. These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period between about 1600 through 1850.

Developed from two earliest English settlements at Jamestown, Virginia (1607) and Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620), and later in the other British colonies along the Eastern seaboard.

These buildings typically included medieval details including steep roofs, small windows (usually due to a scarcity of glass in the colonies), minimal ornamentation and a massive central chimney.

Links

• Historic Home – New England Antique Real Estate
• Wells-Thorn House, Deerfield, Massachusetts
• About: Colonial Houses
• Examples of Colonial House style at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
• Examples of Colonial House style at Colonial Salem, Massachusetts
• The Restoration of a Colonial House in Virginia
• Colonial House PBS series.

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