Colonial house and street. American colonial architecture also called Colonial Georgian, characterizes the style of domestic architecture, church buildings and some institutional and government buildings that were built in America from the earliest colonies until the Neoclassical architectural style locally called "Federal" replaced in for high-style buildings in the 1780s. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 347 KB) Summary COlonial style house and street in Historic Richmond Town (Staten Island, NY) Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 347 KB) Summary COlonial style house and street in Historic Richmond Town (Staten Island, NY) Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU...
A Georgian house in Salisbury Georgian architecture is the name given in English-speaking countries to the architectural styles current between about 1720 and 1840, named after the four British monarchs named George. ...
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High-style houses were built by wealthy Anglo Americans in several distinctively local styles, in New England, the mid-Atlantic colonies and the Southern colonies. The American colonial style drew its influence from the Georgian architecture of Great Britain, with indirect sources in Italian Renaissance style of the sixteenth century. Emigrating craftsmen training in English building practice and a series of printed builders' guides with engraved illustrations both made their contribution to the building vocabulary that spread to the English colonies. This article is about the region in the United States of America. ...
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The term colonial architecture also includes vernacular structures of less refined design.
Characteristics
The defining characteristics of Georgian architecture are its square, symmetrical shape, central door, and straight lines of windows on the first and second floor. There is usually a decorative crown above the door and flattened columns to either side of it. The door leads to an entryway with stairway and hall aligned along the center of the house. All rooms branch off of these. Georgian buildings, in the English manner were ideally in brick, with wood trim, wooden columns and entablatures painted white. In the US, one found both brick buildings as well as those in wood with clapboards. They were usually painted white, though sometimes a pale yellow. This differentiated them from most other structures that were usually not painted. A Georgian house in Salisbury Georgian architecture is the name given in English-speaking countries to the architectural styles current between about 1720 and 1840, named after the four British monarchs named George. ...
A Colonial-style house usually has a formally-defined living room, dining room and family room. The bedrooms are typically on the second floor. They also have one or two chimneys that can be very large. A sitting room in the UK. A living room, also known as sitting room (especially in the UK), lounge room or lounge (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV or other activities. ...
The dining room at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England A dining room is a room for consuming food. ...
A family room is an informal living area usually located adjacent to the kitchen. ...
A bedroom is a room where people sleep. ...
See also The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style. ...
Colonial house and street A colonial house, also called Georgian, is a style of house that was popular in America from 1690 to 1830. ...
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American Federal Period sofa with lyre arm design circa 1790 A lyre arm is an element of design in furniture, architecture or the decorative arts, wherein a shape is employed to emulate the geometry of a lyre;[1] the original design of this element is from the Classical Greek period...
External links
Architecture - iDesignTalk.com - Interior Design & Architecture Forums/Community
- About: Colonial Houses
- Examples of Colonial House style at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
- The Restoration of a Colonial House in Virginia
PBS TV Show - Colonial House PBS series.
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