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Housing of the 1700 time line
They had wooden floors covered with rugs and paneled walls. They had plenty of well-built furniture including chairs, couches, and large beds with feather mattresses. They often were two or three stories tall.
In New England, 17th-century colonial houses were built primarily from wood, following styles found in the southeastern counties of England. Saltbox style homes and Cape Cod style homes were some of the simplest of homes constructed in the New England colonies. -
Housing of the 1800 time line
The houses were cheap, most had between two and four rooms- one or two rooms downstairs, and one or two rooms upstairs, but Victorian families were big with perhaps four or five children. There was no water, and no toilet. A whole street (sometimes more) would have to share a couple of toilets and a pump.
18th century Americans were not afforded the luxuries we have today with hydraulic jacking systems and dollies, instead, they used wooden carriage systems and a team of horses or oxen. -
Housing of the 1900 time line
In 1900, for instance, a typical American new home contained 700 to 1,200 square feet of living space, including two or three bedrooms and one or (just about as likely) no bathrooms. It was probably a two-story floor plan.
The two decades between 1900 and the start of the First World War are called the 'Edwardian' period, although strictly this means from from 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. The Queen Anne style remained in vogue into the early Edwardian period.