Colonial Revival House - Kennedy P
4th hour
Colonial Revival House
The Colonial House Style is one of the most classical style of houses. These houses are usually 1 - 2 stories or more. They usually have a rectangular frame, medium pitched with side-gabled roof with narrow eaves. The entrance is designed with columns, pilasters, pediment and sometimes have a hooded porch. Brick or wood clapboard is used for siding, but shingle is occasionally used. Most of the Colonial Revival houses have a symmetrical frame.
Background of the Colonial Revival House
Materials used for building:
Some of the building materials that were available to use were:
- Brick
- Stone
- Wood Shingles
- Clapboard
- Slate
- Stucco (sometimes)
- Terracotta Panels (sometimes
- Colored Block
- Paints
What was life like in the Colonial Period:
- People learned how to live in the wilderness through trial and error
- Most people worked, played, learned and worshipped at home
- Women worked in the home, raising the children, preparing the meals, sewing clothes, preserving food for the winter, scrubbing the laundry, fetching water and stoking fires
- Colonial children never saw the outside world, instead they were busy learning about the adult world - doing things the way their parents did them
- By the time kids reach age 14, they were considered adults
- Women usually wore a brunswick, cap, cape, caraco and a cloak
- The first wooden floors in Colonial America were wide, thick plank cut from the continent's old-growth fast
- The wide floorboards were butted together on installation, gaps would open up between them in temperature due to humidity
- Decorative detailing was used in these houses