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These basic houses featured double-pitched hipped roofs and were surrounded by porches (galleries) to handle the hot summer climate. By 1770, the basic French Colonial house form evolved into the briquette-entre-poteaux (small bricks between posts) style familiar in the historic areas of New Orleans and other areas. These homes featured double ...
The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, [1] [2] making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family. It was occupied and ...
The house remained in the Moody family until the early 20th century when it was occupied by tenants. [61] Single families were once again occupying the house by 1937, and today the residence is privately owned. [61] Dillingham House Sandwich c.1659 This house was built by Simeon Dillingham (son of Edward Dillingham) sometime around 1659.
The interior of the house has since been restored to its colonial appearance. David Stone House N/A Lincoln: c.1665 This house is traditionally dated to around 1665 when Gregory Stone gave the house to his son David. It was later impacted in a large way in 1959, when much of the house was rebuilt after a fire tore through the structure.
Interior, George Wythe House. The house is a standard center-passage, double-pile plan. A staircase rises on the left side of the passage. The hall contains four door lead to the various rooms. The room interpreted as a parlor by Colonial Williamsburg is to the left before the staircase.
Westover Plantation is a historic colonial tidewater plantation located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia.Established in c. 1730–1750, it is the homestead of the Byrd family of Virginia.
Berkeley Plantation house interior. The ground floor of the mansion was turned into a museum in the 1960s. Today the house attracts visitors from the United States and other parts of the world. The architecture is original, and the house has been filled with antique furniture and furnishings that date from the period when it was built.
The Randolph House is located in near the center of Colonial Williamsburg, at the northeast corner of Nicholson and North England Streets. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, appearing as a seven-bay main block with a single-story ell to the east. The main block is capped by a roof that is hipped at the western end and gabled at the eastern.