![]() ![]() With no eaves, shutters, stoops, porches, window trim, or door decoration, these houses present a very plain facade, relieved only in some examples by a jutting overhang of the second story – the “garrison” style. Photo Credit : Aimee SeaveyĬolonial houses are usually side-gabled (roof ends at the sides of the house), flat-faced, wooden structures, covered with narrow pine clapboards, although most of the earliest ones had shingles. 1695-1703) at the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Here, then, is a guide to five common New England house styles dating from 1630 to 1900.ġ7th-Century Colonial Houses ( 1630-1700, locally to 1740) New England Architecture: The Colonial Sherburne House (c. But knowing some of the distinguishing details, and a little of their history, can deepen one’s appreciation of the unique personality of each town or city one visits. In the same way most people can tell a duck from a heron even without knowing its proper name, most people instinctively distinguish a saltbox from a Second Empire and a Cape Cod from a Queen Anne. ![]() Because we see houses every day and know them from our history lessons, most of us carry around in our heads a subconscious inventory of house forms. ![]() We probably know more about old houses and New England architecture than we realize. New England Architecture | Guide to New England House Styles “Name That House!” was originally published in Yankee Magazine in June, 1991. ![]() With nearly 400 years of settlement behind it, New England hosts a collection of architectural styles that are older and more varied than in any other part of the country. Whether they come as leaf peepers, antiques hunters, or Freedom Trailers, travelers in New England frequently find themselves gawking at houses and New England architecture. And no wonder. ![]()
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