X-Nico

35 unusual facts about Colonial architecture


Alpine Hotel

Now a hotel, it retains the old colonial charms and its architecture is one of the few lasting proofs of the bygone British Era.

Barnes-Frost House

The house is significant in part as it is a preserved example of Colonial architecture, and also because it was home of the Barnes and Frost families.

Branford Center, Connecticut

Architectural styles represented in the Branford Center Historic District include Greek Revival architecture, Queen Anne architecture, and Colonial Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Federal architecture, Gothic Revival architecture, Second Empire architecture, Colonial architecture, Tudor Revival architecture and Bungalow architecture.

Brewster Homestead

The Brewster Homestead at 306 Preston Rd. in Griswold, Connecticut is a historic house including Colonial and Federal architecture.

Bridle Path, Toronto

Forsey Page, a Toronto-based land developer, envisioned the Bridle Path as an "exclusive enclave of estate homes" and he built the neighbourhood's first home, a Cape Cod Colonial style home at 2 The Bridle Path.

Christmas Tree Shops

Most stores are typically made to resemble older buildings, in Colonial, Victorian, or even Old English barn styles (such as the Sagamore, Massachusetts, Pembroke, Massachusetts and Warwick, R.I. stores).

Countryside, Virginia

The majority of the homes in CountrySide were built by the homebuilder Pulte Homes, and are of the colonial architectural style.

Courtlandt Gross House

The design was influenced by the Dutch Colonial and Cape Cod styles; both styles are unusual in California architecture, and the house resembles 17th- and 18th-century houses in the northeastern United States.

Farnham Church

It was built in 1737, and is a one-story, cruciform shaped brick Colonial era church building.

Glastonbury – Rocky Hill Ferry Historic District

The historic district encompasses farmscapes of the Great Meadows in South Glastonbury that preserve 17th-century land use patterns and Colonial and Greek Revival farmhouses, as well as the homes of shipbuilders and merchant traders near the two landings, including several examples of Colonial and Italianate architecture.

Gloucester Women's Club

It was built about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay, gable roofed frame Colonial era dwelling.

Hadlyme North Historic District

The district includes 39 contributing buildings and 12 non-contributing buildings, with examples of Colonial, Mid 19th Century Revival, and "Postmedieval English" architecture.

Hendrick I. Lott House

Although Hendrick added Federal-style dormer windows, the gambrel roof with graceful spring eaves is typical of the Dutch Colonial architectureal style.

House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables (also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.

Hungars Church

It was built between 1742 and 1751, and is a one-story, brick, Colonial structure with four-bay north and south facades, two-bay end walls, and a gable roof with modillioned cornice.

Hupp House

It was built about 1755, and is a 2 1/2-story, rubble limestone Colonial-era dwelling.

Judge John L. Buckley House

The Buckley House is more notable than these because of its detailing, which incorporated Colonial design elements.

Lawyers Hill Historic District

The district encompasses a broad array of architectural styles ranging from 1738 Georgian Colonial to 1941 Georgian Revival.

Linden Farm

It was built in two stages between about 1700 and 1725, and is a small 1 1/2-story Colonial era frame vernacular dwelling.

Mansfield Center Historic District

It consists of 21 contributing buildings and seven non-contributing buildings with architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries, including examples of Colonial, Greek Revival, and Federal architecture.

Mayfield Cottage

It was built about 1750, and is a 1 1/2-story brick Colonial era mansion.

North Cove Historic District

It includes Colonial, Federal, and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture.

Northford Center Historic District

It includes examples of Colonial architecture and Early Republic architecture and one or more buildings or other elements to whose design architects Henry Austin and Alfred W. Boyle contributed.

Old Dutch Church Parsonage

It was built in 1725, in the Colonial and Dutch Colonial Revival architectural styles, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Old Saybrook South Green

It includes Mid 19th Century Revival, Early Republic, and Colonial architecture.

Preston City, Connecticut

The "Mott and Downer House", a five-bay colonial house, are both on Amos Road and were both built before the American Revolutionary War.

Rochester House

It was built in 1746, and is a one-story, two-bay, one-room Colonial plan dwelling.

Rural Khmer house

Colonial architecture introduced the idea of solid, durable buildings that could be bought, sold and inherited.

Schenectady City Hall

Their building went further in evoking the historical antecedents of Colonial buildings than most Colonial Revival buildings of the era, with enough neoclassical elements including a cupola styled after those on the buildings of Christopher Wren, that the building's style has been described as "neo-Georgian or neo-Federal".

Sessions-Pope-Sheild House

It was built in 1691, and is a 1 1/2-story, five bay by two bay, brick Southern Colonial dwelling.

Strawbery Banke

It features more than 40 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Federal style architectures.

Thomas Hyatt House

The Thomas Hyatt House, also known as the Cashman House, is a Colonial style house built in Ridgefield, Connecticut, circa 1735.

United States Housing Corporation

It was common to find variation on the Arts and Crafts bungalow on the West Coast and red brick renditions of Colonial architecture on the East.

Weblin House

It was built about 1700, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay, Colonial era vernacular brick farmhouse.

Yew Hill-Robert Ashby's Tavern-Shacklett's Tavern

The main house was built about 1760–1761, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay, Colonial-era frame structure.


William Spratling

During the summers of 1926-1928, Spratling lectured on colonial architecture at the National University of Mexico's Summer School.