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This house was modeled on the Villa Pisani in Montagnana, Italy, as exhibited in the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570). Colonial architect William Buckland designed this house in 1774 and the resulting house is a very skillful adaptation of the Villa Pisani for the warmer climate of the Chesapeake Bay region.
Belle Grove, 1790s, Pittsylvania County - a Federal style home owned by the Whitmell P. Tunstall family [3] Belle Grove, 1790, King George County - a house in Port Conway, birthplace of James Madison; Bellwood, c. 1800, Chesterfield County, former plantation house, now serves as the officer's club at Defense Supply Center Richmond.
Dutch House: New Castle: DE 1700 Residential Despite being called the Dutch House, the building style is more English. Benoni Fox House Concord: MA 1700 Residential This is one of the oldest buildings of the Fox family in the United States. Stanton–Davis Homestead Museum: Stonington: CT 1700 Farmhouse The farm has been worked every year since ...
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By Bud Dietrich, AIA From sea to shining sea, America's most enduring home style remains the New England Colonial. It conjures up images of small-town America, the village green, Fourth of July ...
Reuben Brown House – Colonial style built in 1725; Thoreau Birth House—Built by John Wheeler circa 1730; Henry David Thoreau born in the house in 1817; house moved 300 yards to its current location in 1878. Robbins House—Built circa 1790–1800; home of Caesar Robbins, a formerly enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War veteran.
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 ...