Category: History - American
In the Old Dominion, Indian towns were small, usually covering about an acre of ground and containing ten or twelve buildings--seldom more than thirty. They were always built on or near a river or other body of water. One of these settlements by the name of "Kecoughtan," the p...
From the records we may learn of many kinds of public buildings, even though their actual remains have disappeared above ground. We know, for instance, of the Tavern or Ale-hous...
13. iv. CHURCHES, CHAPELS, AND GLEBESThe medieval Virginia church of the seventeenth century was generally a crossroads shrine set down in or near the middle of a group of plantations. Towns, like James City, also...
11. ii. THE COUNTRY HOUSEIn the seventeenth century, the English rural homestead was usually placed along the great Bay, the Chesapeake, or upon one of its tidewater tributaries. Back of such a seat, or...
10. i. THE COTTAGE PERIODThe thirteen years between the founding of James Fort in 1607 and the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock on Christmas Day, 1620, have been designated by this writer...
6. vi. UNUSUAL CONSTRUCTIONSAt the native town of Sapponey, Brunswick County, Virginia, there was an interesting variation of the usual town plan. The dwellings were row houses, adjoining one another in th...
12. iii. THE TOWN DWELLINGBecause Virginians in founding their towns wished to crowd their houses in rows along their streets, the city abode is substantially different in type from the rural one. Many o...
3. iii. DWELLING-HOUSESContrary to popular belief, the Indians of Virginia were not a tent people. They lived in wigwams, which are _houses_. Tents belonged to the natives of the Great Plains, like th...
1. i. THE TOWNSIn the Old Dominion, Indian towns were small, usually covering about an acre of ground and containing ten or twelve buildings--seldom more than thirty. They were always built on...
9. iii. THE TRANSITIONAL STYLEMore complicated than either of the first two styles is the Transitional--an architectural style identified and named by this writer to include all experimental examples which f...
4. iv. KING'S HOUSES, TREASURE HOUSES, AND TEMPLESThe lodging of a "werowance" or chief, or of an "emperor," who was head of many chiefs, was called by the English a "King's House" or "Palace." It was commonly an enlarged arbor...
5. v. BATH HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGSThe English called the Indian bath house by the names of "Bagnio" and "Sweating House." Such fabrics were generally circular, like the outdoor ovens used by the Indians, and had...
2. ii. THE MOUNDSThe Indian earth mounds in the land of Virginia have not perished as rapidly as the wooden buildings, with the result that many mounds have survived in one fashion or another. T...
7. i. THE MEDIEVAL STYLEThe buildings represented by this first style should be spoken of as "Virginia Medieval Architecture," because that is what the style is. "Colonial" and "Early Colonial" are tec...
8. ii. THE JACOBEAN STYLEAlthough only a little wedge at first, when it came upon the English scene, the Early Renaissance Style of architecture slowly and gradually developed and expanded. As we have n...