Chapter 6 "Timetoast" Project

Chapter 6

Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Dec 31, 1800

Native American Wigwam

Sep 16, 1400

Is a domed room used by certain Native American tribes.

Native American Teepee

Sep 16, 1400

A tent made out of animal skins that is laid on a conical frame of long poles.

Native American Longhouse

Sep 16, 1400

Usally around to five to seven meters wide and sometimes more than a hundred meters in length.

Native American Hogan

Sep 16, 1400

Were made of earth-covered poles with later models often built of logs, stones, and other materials.

Spanish House with Stucco and Asymmetrical

Sep 16, 1500

Flat or low-pitched red tile roofs. The houses were masonry construction of adobe brick or stone covered in stucco.

Early English Half Timbered

Sep 16, 1600

The wood frame of the house is formed on part of the outside wall. Brick or plaster was used to fill the spaces between the beams.

Early English Tidewater South

Sep 16, 1600

A one-room wooden building with a wood or stone chimney at one end.

Early English Cape Cod with Dormer

Sep 16, 1600

Is a small, symmetrical, one or one-and-one-half story house with a steep gable roof and side gables.

Early English Clapboards

Sep 16, 1600

A building made out of clapboards which are long and thin and thicker along one edge than the other. Being laid horizontally, the thick edge of each board overlapping the thin edge of the board below it.

Early English Saltbox

Sep 17, 1600

Is a variation of the Cape Cod. A lean-to addition was built on the rear of the house. The house has two or two-and-one-half stories in the front but just one story in the back. Has a long, steep-pitched gable roof that slopes down from the front to the back.

Early English Garrison

Sep 17, 1600

Has an overhanging second story.

Dutch Colonial with Gambrel Roof

Sep 17, 1600

A housing style with a gambrel roof which is a roof with a lower steeper slope and an upper less-steep slope on both of its sides.

Log Cabin with Chinking and Gable Roof

Sep 17, 1700

German with Pent Roof

Sep 17, 1700

Large durable homes of wood and fieldstone for warmth. The house was constructed with gable roofs. Also has a small roof ledge between the first and second floors.

French Normandy

Sep 17, 1700

These homes were one-story structures with many narrow door and window openings.

French Plantation

Sep 17, 1700

The Southern adaption of this design.

Louisiana French

Sep 17, 1700

French Manor with Mansard Roof

Sep 17, 1800

French Provincial

Sep 17, 1800