New Fern Homes Analysis

population from 100 to more than one thousand.  The homes were most likely to be

The first house that caught my attention was the St. George Tucker House. It was home to St. George Tucker, who was a lawyer, Revolutionary War militia officer, and judge, a very interesting man in my opinion. This beautiful home was added onto several times to accommodate his nine children and five stepchildren. It is said that Tucker was the first in Williamsburg to construct a bathroom. Another interesting fact about the Tucker house is that they were the first in Williamsburg to put a Christmas tree in the house in 1842. Sadly, the St. George Tucker is not a Colonial Williamsburg exhibition

The property located at 1518 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg Va, was built between 1897 and 1898 (Land Tax Books). The structure is a two story, two bay, wood framed, Italianate style in the Victorian era dwelling with a compound plan, hipped standing seam metal roof and a porch. The foundation is made of concrete block. The pillars of the porch are brick along with the two chimneys’, one located in the front right and one on the back left of the home. The walls are finished with clapboard board siding. The four-pane two-story bay window on the left front of the dwelling is board and batten with a hood that projects out and wraps around the bay window. The door is off set to the right covered by the porch, which is supported by square posts. There are six concrete steps up to the porch. The door has a transom above and two pane sidelights on either side. A pendant light is centered in the porch celling. Above the porch is

Maurer, David. "PRESIDENTIAL STYLE." Colonial Homes, Dec. 1999, p. 60. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&u=avlr&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA57590377&it=r&asid=d7570f44e25469728187a2363d95e162. Accessed 15 Nov. 2017.

2003). Abraham Levitt, a prominent builder, understood the importance of providing housing to people of every income range and he responded to the situation by constructing rows of identical four room apartments at Long Island, New York, that were offered to veteran war soldiers for only $60 a month (Jackson. 1985; Clapson. 2003). Levittown, the mass housing facility designed and constructed by Levitts, was vehemently criticized by architects for producing homogenous and suffocating environment and being antithetical to lofted architectural principles (Jackson. 1985). But the critics ignored the fact that, Levitt could not incorporate the lofty and stylist architectural designs that were hallmark of most of Victorian style villas and bungalows and yet produce houses on mass scale, in quick time and provide them for sale at most affordable prices. His aim was to construct the best houses at least cost to provide most economical housing. The fact was that Levitt had successfully fulfilled the demands and dreams of many Americans of owning their own house.

Victorian houses were very poorly built, they were becoming old and decapitated. They were designed so that each house backed onto another which left windows built

Levitt and Sons needed to find building solutions that would suit the taste of their buyers, would be cost efficient thus resulting in an inexpensive price, and could be produced rapidly and in high yield. To solve this challenge Levitt and Sons designed a single level, four-room home based on the traditional American Cape Cod style.7 This simple design was modified to form four basic designs that were to be replicated. To produce the homes as quickly as possible Levitt and Sons based their construction strategy on the automobile assembly line of Henry Ford. Instead of moving the parts down an assembly line, Levitt and Sons move the labor along the product line.8 This method, along with the incorporation of off-the-shelf products, allowed for the rapid production of homes. The money and time saved on production and design allowed homes to sell at a lower price. These small homes

Tucked away in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina, you will find one of the historic houses built. The Bellamy Mansion. Constructed in 1859 and finally finished in 1861 It is massive in size and also one of the last houses built by slaves. This place is full of history at every turn. It is even rumored to be haunted.

Unlike the gorgeous public buildings the workers homes were very similar. Each house had two stories with five rooms, including a cellar, pantries, and closets. I learned that Pullman’s intentions weren’t fully true. Though public facilities were marvelous, working homes were very bland. Cite: Huffman, Nicole.

During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s thousands and thousands of immigrants flocked to America to find employment in the quickly-expanding industrial cities and to escape the perils of their homelands. These cities, such as New York and Chicago, were seen as the places to begin the journey to achieving “The American Dream’. However, the cities couldn’t grow and develop fast enough to house all of these workers. This problem was “solved” by the creation of tenement houses. In the beginning, tenements were essentially single family houses turned into multi-family dwellings. However once all of these were full, tenement buildings were built specifically to hold as many people as possible for the least amount of money. These housing communities

In early years of the colony, there life was quite difficult. Lots of the colonists lived in simple structures such as dugouts, wigwams, and dirt-floor huts Later in time construction of nomes and small shacks improved, and began to be sheathed in clapboard, with thatch roofs and wooden chimneys. More rich people would extend their house by adding a leanto on the back witch

By 1716, the town consisted of “a church, a Court House…and three or four brick houses.”

Admire and embrace the similarities and differences between the Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic, Georgian, Swiss Chalet and Queen Anne. Notice which stately residence lean towards the simple moldings and columns to the tall massive arched columns and elongated windows; see pitched roofs and square towers.

Although [in 1687] Port Royal is the largest settlement, it contains only nine or ten buildings the others being barns. All the houses are low, made of pieces of wood … covered with thatch.

In addition to funding the excellent public school system, Westport’s wealth creates a beautiful look for the town. Census Tract 503 is in the sylvan area of Westport. My house sticks out from the large, renovated colonial houses that scatter the tree-filled landscape. It is a small, two-story, white Cape Cod that has not been added to since my great-great-grandfather built it in the early 1900s. The five houses that surround my own were all originally built by my great-great-grandfather as well, but homeowners have since added or extended floors. My house is dwarfed by those of my neighbors and the rest of Westport. The distribution of wealth is nearly uniform across the town, and large house size is consequentially consistent across different neighborhoods. Neighborhoods closer to the beach like Saugatuck Island and Saugatuck Shores lack heavy tree cover, but houses are also large and colonial, often constructed of wood or stone.