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The I-house developed from traditional 17th-century British folk house types, such as the hall and parlor house and central-passage house. It became a popular house form in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States at an early date, [ 5 ] but can be found throughout most of the country in areas that were settled by the mid-19th century.
A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and expensive architectural works today, though most were more utilitarian, working farmhouses.
Stratford Hall is a classic example of Southern plantation architecture, built on an H-plan and completed in 1738 near Lerty, Virginia. The Seward Plantation is a historic Southern plantation-turned-ranch in Independence, Texas. Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the ...
The Abingdon Plantation Restoration historical marker, looking east with the reconstructed Abingdon house foundation and a Metrorail train in background (2013). The Airport Authority's Abingdon Plantation site contains a sequential series of nine historical markers that describe the history of the plantation, its occupants and its site.
Kent Plantation House is the oldest standing structure in Central Louisiana. Listed since 1971 in the National Register of Historic Places , Kent House is located in Alexandria in Rapides Parish . The plantation house is a representation of southern plantation life between 1795 and 1855.
The plantation house is privately owned, but was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 7, 1973, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 26, 1974. [2] [5] Hayes is located east of Edenton, overlooking Edenton Bay to the south and Queen Annes Creek to the north.
By Bud Dietrich At the end of the 19th century and early into the 20th, a popular home style in the United States was the Queen Anne. ... upright and proud house. At its base, the Queen Anne has a ...
Providence Plantation and Farm, also known as Fogg House and Farm, is a historic plantation house located near Newtown in King and Queen County, Virginia. The two story, 3-bay Federal style brick main house was built about 1826, and expanded circa 1840.