the styles of houses built in the 13 Colonies

1. Colonial housing
Could you live like this?

2. Basic house: Log Cabin or Salt Box
One story, two rooms (parlor and hall) with
central chimney.
Rapidly evolved to two story, four room house,
still with a central chimney

3. Colonial Saltbox

4. Houses in Medieval European style
Made of wood (usually oak) in NE, Brick in Virginia
Small windows (glass is expensive)
Roof sometimes of thatch, later of wood shingles;
Steep pitch so snow would slide off
Holes/cracks usually filled with mud and grasses
One room deep
2nd floor overhangs

5. Regional differences
South often has two chimneys at the ends
Why?
NE has one central chimney
Why?
NE favors wood, South brick
Why?

6. Northern Colonial

7. French Colonial

8. Dutch Colonial

9. German Colonial

10. Spanish Colonial