Colonial Buildings

American colonial architecture also called Colonial Georgian, characterizes the style of domestic architecture, church buildings and some institutional and government buildings that were built in America from the earliest colonies until the Neoclassical architectural style locally called "Federal" replaced in for high-style buildings in the 1780s.
High-style houses were built by wealthy Anglo Americans in several distinctively local styles, in New England, the mid-Atlantic colonies and the Southern colonies. The American colonial style drew its influence from the Georgian architecture of Great Britain, with indirect sources in Italian Renaissance style of the sixteenth century. Emigrating craftsmen training in English building practice and a series of printed builders' guides with engraved illustrations both made their contribution to the building vocabulary that spread to the English colonies.
The term colonial architecture also includes vernacular structures of less refined design. (...) more....