American Art and Architecture, the European tradition of architecture, painting, sculpture, and related arts as developed in North America (subsequently in the United States) by early colonists and their successors, from the 17th century to the present day.
Dutch influence on architecture was mainly in the region of New York (which was known as New Amsterdam before it was captured by the British in 1664).
Domestic architecture in the first quarter of the 18th century is represented by the McPhedris-Warner House (1718-1723), in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, two rooms deep with a central-staircase hall.
At the northeastern corner of downtown Savannah stand the remains of Fort Savannah (later renamed Fort Wayne), whose brick walls and buttresses were erected by the British in 1779 to replace early colonial earthworks.
Rebuilt in brick to a height of 100 feet in 1773 and subsequently enlarged, it remains one of the oldest functioning lighthouses in the country.
One of the most remarkable colonial buildings in Georgia was the Bethesda orphan house outside Savannah, commissioned by George Whitefield in 1740, with piazzas on four sides and an impressive hipped roof.
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