Architectural Styles
Dutch Colonial
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1602-18th C
- Blend of Dutch Baroque and Renaissance
- Distinctive gabled roofs
- steeply pitched roofs sometimes with flared eaves
- Large Multi-Paned Windows
- Wide Verandas and Porches
- Symmetrical Facades with central entry
- Brick and Wood construction
- White plaster walls
- NY
- New Jersey
- Connecticut
- Dutch Empire
- Indonesia
- USA
- Suriname
- India
- Caribbean
- Sri lanka
- South Africa
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Residential homes
- farmhouses
- churches
- town halls
- Old Stone House (Vechtehuis) Brooklyn NY
- Van Cortlandt House Bronx
- Dutch Reformed Church NY
- Amsderdam House New Jersey
- Castle of Good Hope Cape Town
- Groote Kerk Stellenbosch
- Historic District of New Paltz
- Inns / taverns (herbergen)
- Merchant lodging houses
- Company accommodation (VOC/WIC quarters)
- Forts with lodging (castle/fort compounds)
- Guesthouses in colonial townhouses
- Boarding houses (longer-stay lodging)
- Mission and church hospitality
- Canal/river and port lodging
- Hotel Majapahit (Surabaya Indonesia Dutch East Indies) – formerly Hotel Oranje / Hotel Yamato)
- The Stone House Bed & Breakfast (Cornelis Kool House), Hurley, NY
Adaptive reuse
- Galle Fort
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
Jakarta Old Town (Kota Tua) — Dutch colonial warehouses/townhouses adapted as hospitality
Sri Lanka (Dutch Ceylon – Galle Fort — Dutch colonial fort town buildings adapted as guesthouses/hotels
South Africa (Cape Colony) – Cape Dutch manor houses / gabled homesteads converted to guesthouses
Suriname (Dutch Guiana) – Paramaribo historic colonial townhouses used as guest accommodation
North America (New Netherland legacy) – Historic Dutch-colonial houses used as inns/B&Bs (Hudson Valley / New York region)