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Toas Pueblo. NM, c. 1400. Clay and wood walls. Vigas sticking out of walls. Green Architecture. "Compression shell", building served as structural support and wall covering.

John White. Plan of Secotan (now Virginia), 1580's. Shows Iroquois longhouses. Built with poles, covered with bark

English wigwams. 1627, Pioneer village, salem. All wood, one room. Fireplace in back.

Fairbanks House. Dedham, MA, 1636. Wood frame, constructed using tree nails and oak pegs. Walls bound with sticks and covered with mud, "wattle and daub". Covered with clapboards. Grew organically

Fairbanks House floor plan. Huge central fireplace. Typical hall and parlor. Small stair case.

Scotch-Boardman House. Saugus, MA 1692. Second floor overhangs. Don't care about symmetry. Classic salt-box with clapboards. Central fireplace

Scotch-Boardman House floor plan. Central fireplace, Hall and parlor with lean-two added 1695. Windows replaced 1725

Whitman House. Farmington, CT. 1720. Lean two added mid-18th century. Typical salt box with 2nd floor over-hang with central fireplace.

Rebecca Nurse House, Danvers MA, 1678

Paul Revere House, Boston 1680. Clapboards, diamond window panes. Chimney on side. Pendles on over hang

Parson Capen House. Topsfield, MA. 1683. Central fireplace. Very large house for the time. Steep pitched gable roof. Not symmetrical. Second floor over hang. Decorated pendles.

Parson Capen House Parlor. Very low ceilings. Main summer beam. Large fireplace. Painted white, small amount furniture.

Parson Capen house stairs. Very steep

Parson capen house floor plan. Topsfield MA, 1683

Whipple House. Ipswich, MA, 1677. Mansion at the time. steep pitched gabled roof with two cross gables. Central fireplace. Not symmetrical

Henry Whitfield House. Guilford, CT. 1639. Built with stone, asymmetrical. Fire places at either end. Steep pitched gable, small windows. Doubled as a church

Clemence Irons House, Johnston, RI 1691. Stone and wood. Known as "stone enders", unique to one area around Providence

Clemence Irons House, Johnston RI, 1691. Stone ender is common only in one area around Providence

First townhouse, Boston, 1657. Wood frame, raised on tall post with open area below. Modeled after British prototypes.

Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham MA 1681, 1731, 1755. Cupola and and triangular pediment added in 18th century.

Old Ship Meeting House, Hingham 1681. Original roof was like a ship with kingpost in the middle. Built over in 1731

Old Ship Meeting House roof. Originally covered, then uncovered.

Cahokia Courthouse, Cahokia IL 1737. Typical french colonial style. Broken gabled roof. Wraparound porch. Walls are vertical posts filled in with clay.

Adam Thoroughgood House, VA, 1636 (maybe 1680). Chimney's on sides. Made of brick. Chimneys slope in with belt courses. Central hall plan

Bacons Castle. Arthur Allen House, VA 1655. Supposed to be like an english country house. Steep roof. Sash windows. Symmetrical. Elaborate chimneys.

St. Lukes Old Brick Church. Traditional english country church. VA, 1632-75. Axial, tower in front. Stepped gable roof (very medieval). Quoins. Windows have pointed arches. Side has thickened buttresses.

St. Lukes Old Brick Church, back. Stepped gable roof. Large window with tracing. Thickened Buttresses.

St. Luke's Old Brick Church interior. Exposed ceiling. Large collar beams connect at Buttresses. Emphasis on Altar

Acoma Pueblo, San Esteban Del Ray Mission. 1629-40. Incredibly thick walls made of sun dried bricks (requires more maintenance). Axial, focuses on Altar.

New Town House (Old State House). Boston 1712. Built by William Pane. Belt courses at each level. Elaborate balcony with triangular pediment. Wood tower has quoins and detailing. Lion and unicorn go back to Monarchy.

Thomas Crease House (old corner book store). Boston, 1712. Relatively large, Gambrel roof, useable attic. Belt courses at each floor. Quoins on corners. Shows a willingness to display wealth

Macpheadris-Warner House, Portsmouth NH 1716-23. Big windows, Belt course, wide roof with balustrade and cupola. Semi-circular pediment at doorway. Segmented arches over groundfloor windows. Tall windows, larger glass pains.

Thomas Hancock House, Boston 1737 (replica, Ticonderoga NY). First stone house in Boston, balustrade across top.

Isaac Royall House, East Facade. Medford Ma, 1733-37. New Georgian Classicism. Classical detailing above door, quoins. Symmetrical.

Isaac Royall House, West Facade. Medford Ma, 1733-37. Wood cut and painted to look like stone. Want to give off perception of wealth.

Isaac Royall House, Medford Ma. Started as a small farmhouse, then made into a saltbox. Doubled in size in 1747.

Wentworth-Gardner House. Portsmouth, NH, 1760. All wood, hipped roof with alternating pediments above windows. Chimneys off to the side. Swans neck pediment above window. Quoins on the side, wood cut and painted to look like stone.

John Vassall House (Longfellow House), Brattle Street, Cambridge 1759. Large three part wooden frame. colossal pillasters on facade. Porch to either side (more connection with nature), Symmetrical.

Lady Pepperell House, Kittery Point ME 1760. Like a large english home, hipped roof with cornice. Classical Ionic pillasters, central section sticks out. Big windows. Pendles above door

Jeremiah Lee House, Marblehead MA 1768. Cubic, massive. First central free standing portico with pillars over door in New England. Wood is cut and painted to look like stone. Central pavilion sticks out. Hipped roof with cupola.

Stratford, the Thomas Lee House. VA 1724-38. Symmetrical with flankers. Main house is H shaped. Massive clustered chimneys. All brick, raised brick pediment over door.

Westover, Charles City County, 1750. Built for William Byrd II, the founder of Richmond. Swan neck pediment over door. Tall windows with segmented arches on top of them.

James Gibbs "A Book of Architecture", 1728. Created the idea of a 3 part building with central pedimented pavilion sticking out. Has Flankers on each side

James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture, 1728. Flankers sitting in front, connected with passageways. Emphasis on symmetry

William Buckland: Hammond House, Annapolis MD, 1773-74. Classic Gibbs 3 part design with Flankers. Pediment above door. Central pavilion sticks out. Door is incredible ornate and symmetrical.

Mt. Pleasant, the John Macpherson House, Fairmont Park, Philadelphia 1761-62. Projecting pointed gable. Huge chimneys. Palladian window over door. Completely symmetrical. Hipped roof.

Dwight Barnard House, Deerfield MA 1754. Small, one room deep, connects to barn behind house to avoid weather. Swan neck over door (but it bumps into second floor window). Distinctive farmhouse layout. Big house, back house, barn.

A. Hamilton and E. Wooley: Old State House, Independence Hall. Philadelphia, 1732-48. Three parts, connected by passageways. Elaborate tower. Chimneys on sides.

John Smibert, Faneuil Hall, Boston 1742. Was doubled in size in 1804. Originally two stories with arcade below.

John Smibert and Charles Bulfinch. Faneuil Hall 1804. Three stories, red brick, doric pillasters on first and second floor, ionic on third.

Peter Harrison, Redwood Library, Newport RI 1748-50. Front designed to look like ancient temple superimposed on broader structure with nave and side aisle. Wood cut to look like stone. Simple columns.

Edward Hoppus, headpiece to 4th book of Palladio, 1736. Inspired redwood library by Peter Harrison, 1748.

Peter Harrison: Kings Chapel, Boston MA 1749-54. harrison design has tower in front with colonnaded entry with balustrade on top.

Interior to Kings Chapel (Peter Harrison), 1749. Elaborate dual corinthian columns. Axial. Wine glass pulpit with sounding board on top. Palladian window dead center. Very high ceilings.

Peter Harrison, Brick Market, Newport RI 1761-62. First floor arcade with brick arches. Copy of building by Inigo Jones. Much like Italian Renaissance and classical architecture.

Inigo Jones, Somerset House, in Colen Campbell "Vitruvius Britannicus". Inspired Peter Harrison's Brick Market

Peter Harrison, Touro Synagogue, Newport RI, 1759-63. Built like a big house of worship. All brick and wood, hipped roof, belt course, free standing portico.

Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg VA, 1710-15. Inspired by Christopher Wren. Tower in front, transepts at either end.

William Price, Christs Church (Old North Church). Boston, 1723. Same wren design. Tall brick tower with Belt Courses, all white steeple.

Richard Munday, Trinity Church, Newport RI, 1725. Inspired by Wm. Price's Old North Church in Boston. Exact copy, but made of wood.

Robert Twelves, Designer; Joshua Blanchard, builder. Old South Meeting House, Boston 1729. Wren style, but more of a square. Main entrance on side. large windows provide lots of light.

Thomas Jefferson and C.L.A. Clerissau: Virginia State Capital, Richmond 1785. Jefferson designed main building. Temple front with large ionic pillars (wanted corinthian). Based off of a Roman temple in France.

Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, near Charlottesville VA 1770-82; 1796-1809. Second design. Designed after Palladio's Villa Rotunda, which was incredible symmetrical.

Thomas Jefferson, UVA Campus, 1817-26. Library is the center. U-shaped plan. Rotunda has corinthian columns, brick and wood, temple front, modeled after the Parthenon. Arc of the dome is part of a perfect circle. Pavilions connect everything.

Charles Bulfinch: State House, 1795-98. Brick and wood. Wood dome, painted gold. Corinthian columns. Raised over an arcade. Modeled after somerset House

Charles Bulfinch, Tontine Crescent, Boston 1793-94.

Charles Bulfinch: 1st Harrison Gray Otis House. Boston, 1796. Traditonal Georgian architecture. Palladian window, belt courses, looks a lot like a British townhouse.

Charles Bulfinch: 2nd Harrison Gray Otis House. Boston, 1800. Ballistrade and cupola, large ionic pillasters on 2nd floor. Flat facade

Charles Bulfinch: 3rd Harrison Gray Otis House. 1806. Grander than previous two.

Charles Bulfinch, Meeting House in Lancaster MA 1815. Excellent example of symmetry. Wren/Gibbs model of portico in front, tower set a little bit back. doric pillasters on portico, ionic columns on bell tower.

Samuel McIntire: Gardner-Pingree House, Salem MA 1804. Red brick, belt courses, rounded free standing portico. Portico on roof.

Rebecca Gore and JG Legrand: Gore PLace, Waltham Ma, 1801-1804. Gibbs type building with three parts. Lots of chimneys. Oval reception room.

Gore place floor plan. Fire place in every room. Large oval reception room, lots of other formal rooms. Kitchen off to side

Benjamin Latrobe: Cathedral in Baltimore, 1804-18. Entirely built of stone. Elegant ionic columns in portico. Large dome in back.

Benjamin Latrobe, alternate design for Cathedral in Baltimore. gothic

William Strickland: 2nd Bank of the US, Philadelphia, 1818-24. Greek temple. front is a copy of the parthenon. strict doric order. unpainted, all stone.

William Strickland, Philadelphia Exchange 1832-34. Rounded end, romanesque. Cupola is the choragic monument Lysicrates

Thomas Ustick Walter: Founders Hall, Girard College, Philadelphia 1833-47. Greek temple design, corinthian columns wrap around entire building.

Thomas Ustick Walter: Nicholas Biddle House, Andalusia Pa, 1836. Originally georgian, had temple design built on top of it. Doric columns.

Ithiel Town: Russell House, now Wesleyan U., Middletown CT 1828-30. Classical entrance with corinthian columns.

Ithiel Town and AJ Davis: Customs House, NYC 1833-42. Modeled after parthenon, except with roman dome inside.

Alexander Parris: Quincy Market, Boston Ma 1826.

SP Fuller, builder: Louisburg Square, Boston MA 1826-40

Ammi B Young: US Customs House, Boston 1837-47

Greek Revival House, Haddam CT, 1850.

George Swainey: theAlexander Romanhouse, Oak Alley, St.James Parish, nearVacherie, LA, 1836

Thomas Cole: The Architects Dream, 1840. Portrait of Ithiel Town.

Maximilian Godefroy: St. Mary's Chapel, Baltimore MD, 1808

Richard Upjohn: trinity Church, NYC, 1839-46

Richard Upjohn, Trinity Church Interior. 1839-46

Richard Upjohn: St. Lukes Church, Clermont NY, 1857

Ideal French Gothic Church, Viollet-le-Duc

James Renwick: St. Patricks Cathedral Interior. 1858-75

James Renwick: St. Patricks Cathedral Interior. 1858-75

AJ Davis: Lyndhurst, Tarrytown NY, 1838/1865.

Brooks House, Salem MA, 1850