Architectural Styles
American Colonial
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1600-1790
- Symmetrical Facades
- Steep gabled roofs
- Central Entryways
- Wood Construction
- small casement leaded glass windows (usually due to a scarcity of glass in the colonies)
- rich ornamentation (in the more expensive house only)
- massive central chimney
- Colonial, Georgian, Federal, and Dutch Colonial influences
- USA
- New England
- mid-Atlantic
- southern colonies
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Colonial homes
- Meetinghouses
- Plantation Houses
- Public Buildings
- Stores a
- Taverns
- churches
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Independence Hall Philadelphia
- Paul Revere House Boston
- Old Sturbridge Village Massachusetts
- Salem Witch House
- Monticello Charlottesville
- Fairbanks House Massachusetts
- Old State House Boston
- Christ Church Philadelphia
- Inns
- Taverns
- Ordinaries
- Stagecoach inns / posting houses
- Boarding houses
- Private hospitality (staying with families or patrons)
- Public houses with rooms
- Ferries/river-crossing lodging
- Military or government lodging
- Wayside Inn (Sudbury, Massachusetts)
- Union Oyster House / early tavern buildings (Boston area)
- City Tavern (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Fraunces Tavern (New York City, New York)
- Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Virginia)
- King’s Arms Tavern (Williamsburg, Virginia)
- Historic “ordinaries” and taverns in Charleston (South Carolina)
- Green Dragon Tavern Boston (demolished)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation