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Floor plan of a basic central-passage house. The central-passage house , also known variously as central hall plan house , center-hall house , hall-passage-parlor house , Williamsburg cottage , and Tidewater-type cottage , was a vernacular , or folk form, house type from the colonial period onward into the 19th century in the United States .
The interior of the Lenhart Farmhouse is a perfectly symmetrical Federal "I" House design with a central three-story walnut staircase and balustrade from the first floor to the attic. The east, west and ell room interior dimensions are 15 by 18 feet (4.6 by 5.5 m). Typical finishes include plaster and simple woodwork.
Slave quarters in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery in the United States. These outbuildings were the homes of the enslaved people attached to an American plantation, farm, or city property.
This is a list of slave cabins and other notable slave quarters. A number of slave quarters in the United States are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Many more are included as contributing buildings within listings having more substantial plantation houses or other structures as the main contributing resources ...
The style developed in the Southwest with Pueblo design influences from the indigenous Puebloan peoples architecture. In Alta California , present-day California , the style developed differently, being too far for imported building materials and without skilled builders, into a strong simple version for building the missions between 1769 and 1823.
The main style point was a large breezeway (instead of a hallway) through the center of the house to cool occupants in the hot southern climate. [1] [3] A dogtrot house built with a fully enclosed second floor is known as a "saddle bag". Architects continue to design variants of dogtrot houses using modern materials. [4] [dead link ]
It was always one-and-a-half stories, with a side-gabled roof, and often had upper floor dormer windows. However, it accommodated a full-width front porch under the main roof, with doors or jib-windows opening from all of the rooms onto the porch, and was usually raised high above the ground on a full raised basement or piers.
The cabin is a single-pen one-story cabin measuring approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) by 18 feet (5.5 m). The walls are built of hewn logs with dovetail notching. Fieldstone and loose rock comprise the cabin's foundation, and the cabin's gabled roof is covered with hand-split shingles. The interior contains a sawn board floor and a loft, and is ...