Colonial Architecture
This medieval type of structure was brought over by colonists from rural districts of England.
What is wattle and daub construction
The reason why so wide a diversity of architectural expression may be encountered in the United States.
What is- our nation is a far-flung sisterhood of states with varying climates, topographies, and physical resources and with mixed ethnic relationships
In New Mexico we encounter an entirely different architectural expression. Why?
Here the Spaniards found a sedentary Indian population which had already developed an appropriate native architecture. Thus, when the conquistadores employed these Indians to build structures with European plans and utilities out of native materials, there resulted a new regional type, half Spanish, half Indian, the like of which had been nowhere else evolved.
After the Revolution, and especially during this period, porticoes with columns two stories high became the fashion.
the Greek Revival period
French Colonial houses in the upper Mississippi Valley were made up of this simple arrangement.
What is- two or three rooms placed side by side, each with a door opening upon a galerie that extended across the front of the house. Sometimes these galeries flanked two sides of the structure and often completely surrounded the house.
The principal regional traits of the Louisiana house are two:
it is always raised above the ground, and a galerie encloses one or more ides of the structure.
In Maryland and Virginia, where the climate introduced a different social and economic system, these effects are plainly seen.
Houses adapted to life on the great maritime plantations where cotton and tobacco were raised and where large numbers of black men carried on most of the hard labor of production.
Many consider this the origin of the American veranda or porch.
More prosperous Dutch houses were two rooms deep, crowned by a roof of low slope with deep projections front and rear. This overhang was soon extended in such a way as to form a true porch or, as it was later called in the New York area, a piazza.
Now, universally produced in long lengths on machines, this is what we call weather-boarding or siding. What was its original name and purpose?
What is Clapboarding
"Thereafter, the colonists rived, split, or sawed out a covering of "clapboards," with which they sheathed the exteriors of these half-timber houses to shed the water and keep out the wind."
The habitat of our Spanish Colonial architecture contrasts markedly with that of other European types so far discussed how?
It includes vast sun-drenched, semi-desert areas in the present states of Texas, New Mexico, Arionna, and southern California, with settlements also at St. Augustine and Pensacola, Florida, in Georgia, and along the Gulf Coast. Here, principally through the leadership of the Franciscan friars, who organized great ecclesiastical establishments and built up vast landed estates, Spanish institutions and customs were introduced.
The climate in Virginia results in these changes in plans from Virginia.
In Virginia the plans are more open and detached than in Maryland, in some cases the service departments being completely separated from the main house. Larger openings, lower roofs, and open two-storied porticoes reflect the climate of this sunny littoral.
Define Provincialism and what do products of this style lack.
What is- the parochial and half-understood reflection of styles radiated from the great metropolitan style centers.
The products of provincialism may be quaint, na'ive, and amusing, but they lack the vitality, spontaneity, and promise of future growth characteristic of truly regional products.