Colonial styles - Pre-Revolutionary War
"Colonial" style in architecture and furniture includes all the styles which existed during the Colonial period of American history.
Colonial style home plans are generally two to two and one half story homes with a very simple and efficient design. This architectural style is very identifiable with its very simplistic rectangular shape and the large columns.
American Colonial Styles
1600s - 1800
When North America was colonized, settlers brought building traditions from many different countries.
The New England Colonial style simplified the picturesque Queen Anne and so appeared after the Queen Anne fell out of fashion. The New England Colonial was one of many revival styles which became popular by the early 20th century.
Colonial Style: Creating Classic Interiors in Your Cape, Colonial, or Saltbox Home. Newtown, CT: Taunton Press, 2005.
Gitlin, Jane. Capes: Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and Building New. Newtown, CT: Taunton press, 2003.
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were built during the Colonial period, so it's considered a Colonial style.
Spanish Colonial style 1520s-c.1550
Elizabethan architecture (b.1533-d.1603)
Dutch Colonial 1615-1674 (Treaty of Westminster) New England
Palladian architecture 1616-1680 (Jones)
English Baroque 1666 (Great Fire)-1713 (Treaty of Utrecht) ...
The portico illustrates the difference between the Classical Revival and the Colonial styles. The entablature which would have been adorned with dentils in the Ionic Order, is here decorated with a floral frieze.
coquina - A material used with early Spanish Colonial styled buildings. It is made of limestone made of shell aggregate the Spanish discovered in 1583.
clerestory - the row of large windows in a church, basilica, or cathedral.
A roof with a short sloping surface on either side of the ridge, followed by a longer, more steeply pitched surface that is often flared at the end. Used in Dutch Colonial style homes.
Gingerbread ...
reigns of George I, II, and III (1714- 1820), based on the principles of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The style was transported to England by Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren. It became the prototype for the colonial style ...
Thus in 1955 the French Administration at Mopti built a new Friday mosque, using the new Great Mosque of Djenne as a model. Although the new Sudan style was based on the pre-colonial style it emphasized symmetry and monumentality at the expense of ...
It became the prototype for the colonial style in America. Gothic A style employed in Europe during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries; also called pointed.
 See also: Colonial, House, Architecture, Brick, Georgian
  
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