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Jan 1, 1400
1400s Native American Wigwam
Wigwams are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall. Wigwams are made of wooden frames which are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or like a rectangle with an arched roof. -
Jan 1, 1400
1400s native American longhouse
pole frames and elm bark covering. Longhouses could be 200 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 20 feet high. Inside the longhouse, raised platforms created a second story, which was used for sleeping space. -
Jan 1, 1400
1400s Native American Hogan
wooden poles, tree bark and mud. The doorway of each hogan opened to the east so they could get the morning sun as well as good blessings. -
Jan 3, 1400
native american 1400s Teepee
A tepee is made of a cone-shaped wooden frame with a covering of buffalo hide -
Jan 1, 1500
Spanish house and asymeterical
Structures tend to the asymmetrical with clay roofs that help to keep the house cool under intense sunshine. usually made with stuco. -
Early english, Half-timbered
blackened oak beams, the logs were halved, or a least cut down to a square inner section. -
Early english, Tidewater south
small one story houses, made of wood, sometimes stone. -
Early English Clapboard
symeterical, two story -
Early english Cape cod
small, with dormers. symeterical -
Early Englishh Saltbox
one side looks like a gable roof, but the other has a slant that exceeds the length of the other side. -
Early English Garrison
top portion of the house protrudes out, to assure nobody could scale the home. -
Dutch Colonial (with gambrel roof)
half of an octogon shaped roof. -
Scandinavian log cabin
made of logs, in between the logs, is chinking, to bind together the home. -
German with pent roof
usualy made frome stone. a second small roof under the main roof. -
French Normandy
Wide hipped roof extends over porches
Living quarters raised above ground level
Wide porches, called "galleries" -
French plantation
large, with pillars. -
louisianna french
large porch, with gambrel roof -
french manor with mansord roof
symeterical, with a mansard roof -
French provincial
large, mansion like. asymeterical.
