Colonial Architecture
According to http://www.historicnewengland.org/preservation/your-older-or-historic-home/architectural-style-guide#georgian-1700-1780 this is the architecture ofpennsylvania . Within this period of time, 1700-1780, the architectural type is, Georgian, which had originated from the Italian Renaissance. The Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio (an Italian architect) were brought to the colonies they emphasized classicism, order, and symmetry regardless of function. In the United States, they had many variations on the English theme: a symmetrical, two-story house with center-entry façade, combined with the two-room-deep center-passage floor plan.Typical Features:
- Symmetry, centered façade entry with windows aligned horizontally and vertically
- One or two-story box, two rooms deep
- Commonly side-gabled and sometimes with a gambrel or hipped roof
- Raised foundation
- Paneled front doors, capped with a decorative crown (entablature); often supported by decorative pilasters; and with a rectangular transom above (later high-style examples may have fanlight transoms)
- Cornice emphasized by decorative moldings, commonly dentils
- Double-hung sash windows with small lights (nine or twelve panes) separated by thick wooden muntins
- Five-bay façade (less commonly three or seven)
- Center chimneys are found in examples before 1750; later examples have paired chimneys
- Wood-frame with shingle or clapboard walls (upper windows touch cornice in most two-story examples)
- Central hall plan
- High ceilings (10-11 feet) smoothly plastered, painted and decorated with molded or carved ornament (high-style)
- Elaborate mantelpieces, paneling, stairways and arched openings copied from pattern books (high-style)
- Pedimented windows and dormers
- Belt course between stories (masonry examples)
- Quoins of stone or wood imitating stone
- Roof balustrades (after 1750)
- Centered front gable (pediment) or shallow projecting central gable (after 1750)
- Two-story pilasters (after 1750)