Colonial Houses in New England
Rustic Homes of Early America, 1600s - 1740
By Jackie Craven, About.com Guide ...
Colonial House Plans
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Colonial style home plans are generally two to two and one half story homes with a very simple and efficient design.
Colonial house plans reflect the uncomplicated and refined taste of early settlers in America's 13 original colonies.
Colonial houses vary from region to region, but they share many characteristics in common.
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Early English style Colonial houses reflected building techniques developed in the Late Medieval period.
The porch was an important passageway because traditional French Colonial houses did not have halls. By 1825, due to flooding, the raised cottage developed with houses constructed atop raised brick walls.
Fans of the movie Father of the Bride will recognize this classic and popular colonial house. The actual movie used two houses- one for the exterior and another for the interior. This plan is a compromise of the two. Entering the foyer we are greeted.
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A two-sloped roof with its lower parts steeper than its upper parts. This type of roof is identified with the Dutch Colonial house style.
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also provided direct access to the wraparound porches, or galeries, that functioned as passageways between rooms. Unlike houses of English Colonial origin, such as Georgians, where rooms were connected by interior hallways, in French Colonial houses ...
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