A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median construction year of 1996, Colonial homes have also proven to be a solid ...

Trends always start somewhere, and in the mid 19th century, the best way to start a trend that would encompass the entire country, was to introduce it at a huge celebration or fair. Before the 1893 ...

Exterior of a row of colorful Victorian homes with intricate wood trim. The story of American architecture has followed much of the same path as art has over the past 400 years. Art, as a whole, tends ...

America is composed of many different architectural styles. From Mediterranean-style homes influenced by rustic European architecture to the more traditional Colonial buildings nestled in pockets ...

Despite its relatively small size -- at only 8.15 acres and just short of 20,000 residents -- Colonial Heights is a wonderful city at the intersection of the Piedmont plateau and Tidewater plain in ...

Extracted from: Journal of modern history (Chicago) 59 (2) 1987, pages 291-316. The urban modernist vision of French architects during the colonial period could not be implemented in metropolitan ...