Chapter 7-2 Northern Hearth2. Southern New England.ppt

Chapter 7-2 Northern Hearth2. Southern New England featured by sturdy posts and stout horizontal beams held together by simple joinery and sided by overlapping clapboards, steep roofs and massive central chimneys.(fig 7.10) 1) garrison house - from medieval Europe 2) saltbox house - asymmetrical gable roof covering a shed or extra room 3) New England large house up to 10 rooms, lobby entrance, central chimney and variation of 4) upright-and-wing house Middle Atlantic Hearths more influential than other styles. log cabin evolved from there, I house. Germans/ Scandinavians/ eastern Finns introduced log houses in the 17th century in Delaware and New Jersey. Delaware Valley hearth : four-over-four (fig 7.11), I house (two-over-two), bank barn combined animal shelter with the grain storage the threshing functions (English barn only store crops) Chesapeake Bay : raised foundations, outside end chimneys, detached kitchen, front porches and front -to-rear ventilation passages, sometimes brick but mostly wood frame. Brought to Indiana, Illinois, Iowa (I House named after these) Southern Hearths The Southern Tidewater - Charleston single house to avoid inland humid and disease. (fig 7.12) Mississippi Delta - French built hearth in New Orleans and lower Mississippi during 18th century. Grenier house in Louisiana with raised floor, Shotgun house, introduced by Haitian black (fig 7.13) Interior and Western Hearths originally built sod dugouts or earth houses in the absence of timber. Balloon frame with cheap wire and standard size frame. developed one-story gabled rectangle. double-wing, and two-story foursquare farmhouses. Utah - central-hall house thick-walled Spanish adobe house Western states with Middle Atlantic culture hearth, log-cabin from Delaware Valley... Architectural Diffusions (fig. 7.14) Three source regions in the U.S. -New England, Middle Atlantic and Southern Coastal New England - based on simple English original, variants spread to NY,OH,IN, IL, WI and IA