American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English, Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutc
Lower Swedish Cabin, Drexel Hill, Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, built ca. 1640–1650, may be one of the oldest log cabins in the United States.
Corwin House, Salem, Massachusetts, built ca. 1670, First Period English
Bequette–Ribault House in Ste. Geneviève, Missouri, built 1778, French colonial
Gonzalez–Alvarez House, St. Augustine, Florida, built 1723, Spanish colonial
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A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear, so that the front roof is considerably shorter than the back one. It is a tradit
American colonial architecture
…Europe. In New England, 17th-century colonial houses were built primarily from wood, following styles found in the southeastern counties of England. Saltbox style homes and Cape Cod style homes were some of the simplest of homes constructed in the New England colonies. The Saltbox homes known for their steep…
Thomas Lee House, East Lyme, Connecticut, c. 1660-1664
Nehemiah Royce House, Wallingford, Connecticut, c. 1672
Multiple-pitched rear roof of Thomas Hawley House, Monroe, Connecticut
c. 1643 Edmund Rice homestead in Sudbury (now Wayland, Massachusetts), destroyed by fire c. 1912