House ch 6

Chapter 6 housing

  • 1400s Native American Wigwam
    Jan 1, 1400

    1400s Native American Wigwam

    Wigwams are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall. Wigwams are made of wooden frames which are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or like a rectangle with an arched roof.
  • 1400s native American longhouse
    Jan 1, 1400

    1400s native American longhouse

    pole frames and elm bark covering. Longhouses could be 200 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 20 feet high. Inside the longhouse, raised platforms created a second story, which was used for sleeping space.
  • 1400s Native American Hogan
    Jan 1, 1400

    1400s Native American Hogan

    wooden poles, tree bark and mud. The doorway of each hogan opened to the east so they could get the morning sun as well as good blessings.
  • native american 1400s Teepee
    Jan 3, 1400

    native american 1400s Teepee

    A tepee is made of a cone-shaped wooden frame with a covering of buffalo hide
  • Spanish house and asymeterical
    Jan 1, 1500

    Spanish house and asymeterical

    Structures tend to the asymmetrical with clay roofs that help to keep the house cool under intense sunshine. usually made with stuco.
  • Early english, Half-timbered

    Early english, Half-timbered

    blackened oak beams, the logs were halved, or a least cut down to a square inner section.
  • Early english, Tidewater south

    Early english, Tidewater south

    small one story houses, made of wood, sometimes stone.
  • Early English Clapboard

    Early English Clapboard

    symeterical, two story
  • Early english Cape cod

    Early english Cape cod

    small, with dormers. symeterical
  • Early Englishh Saltbox

    Early Englishh Saltbox

    one side looks like a gable roof, but the other has a slant that exceeds the length of the other side.
  • Early English Garrison

    Early English Garrison

    top portion of the house protrudes out, to assure nobody could scale the home.
  • Dutch Colonial (with gambrel roof)

    Dutch Colonial (with gambrel roof)

    half of an octogon shaped roof.
  • Scandinavian log cabin

    Scandinavian log cabin

    made of logs, in between the logs, is chinking, to bind together the home.
  • German with pent roof

    German with pent roof

    usualy made frome stone. a second small roof under the main roof.
  • French Normandy

    French Normandy

    Wide hipped roof extends over porches
    Living quarters raised above ground level
    Wide porches, called "galleries"
  • French plantation

    French plantation

    large, with pillars.
  • louisianna french

    louisianna french

    large porch, with gambrel roof
  • french manor with mansord roof

    french manor with mansord roof

    symeterical, with a mansard roof
  • French provincial

    French provincial

    large, mansion like. asymeterical.