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Sep 11, 1400
Wigwam
a dome-shaped hut or tent made by fastening mats, skins, or bark over a framework of poles, used by some North American Indian peoples. -
Period: Sep 11, 1400 to
Historical Homes
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Sep 15, 1400
Teepee
a portable conical tent made of skins, cloth, or canvas on a frame of poles, used by American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions. -
Sep 15, 1400
Longhouse
The longhouses inhabited by the Iroquois were wood boards/bark-covered structures providing shelter for several related families. Each longhouse had a clan symbol placed over the doorway. -
Sep 15, 1400
Hogan
one-room Navajo structure traditionally built with the entrance facing east, used as a dwelling or for ceremonial purposes. -
Sep 15, 1500
Spanish w/ Stucco
he thick adobe walls stay cool in the summer but are difficult for heating in cold. it will have white stucco walls and chimney finishes, low-pitched or flat red clay tile roofs, curvilinear gables, and arched windows. -
Sep 15, 1500
Asymmetrical
If you cut an asymmetrical house down the middle, it won't be the same on both sides. -
Half-timbered
made of squared oak timbers joined by mortises, tenons, and wooden pegs; the building's cagelike structural skeleton is often strengthened at the corners with braces. -
Tidewater South
Lower level elevated on stilts or pilings, Two stories with porches on both levels, The porch often surrounds the entire house, Wooden construction, Usually located near water, especially the coastal regions of the American south -
Clapboards
a long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings -
Cape Cod with dormer
Cape cod is a small, symmetrical house. Dormers are structures with windows that project through a sloping roof in the second story. -
Saltbox
found especially in New England, generally two full stories high in front and one story high in back, the roof having about the same pitch in both directions so that the ridge is well toward the front of the house. -
Garrison
a house fortified against attack -
Dutch Colonial w/ a gambrel roof
The front door of a Dutch colonial was a big deal. A gambrel roof is a roof with a lower steeper slope and an upper less-steep slope on both of its sides. -
Log Cabin
one redroom rectangular house, with chinking- a filling of stick and wood chips -
German w/ pent roof
large, durable home of wood and field-stome for warmth. -
French Normandy
one story with many noarrrow door and window openings -
French Plantation
one story above ground, walls ere stucco -
Louisiana French
big house with pillars on the sides -
French Manor with Mansard roof
Symmetrically styed with wings on each side -
French Provincial
has delicate and dignified appearance and is usually symmetrical
