Colonial Homes of America: The Fascinating History Behind Each Style

[@claireburkus8497]

Born near Hope Lodge and always loving colonial style homes and then living in New England for 14 years….this post grabs my heart !!! My Dad, an architect, helped work on the restoration of William Penns homestead….always loved trips to Colonial Williamsburg also….I always have had homes of this style until moving,as a Grandma, to Tulsa,Oklahoma….must say my heart is always back home while loving the opportunity to be watching my Grandchildren grow up!!!

[@erinpennington9716]

The symmetry of Drayton Hall is amazing!

[@elephantintheroom5678]

Drayton Hall gets my vote. Beautiful.

[@monicacall7532]

Oh thank, thank you! I LOVE colonial homes.❤

[@paulrussell950]

This was a great video! Being from Boston, I liked the New England things best, but they were all fascinating. Thank you!

[@devonna6171]

I love the Georgian style homes

[@carcar78]

Wow, Ken, you nicely packed a phenomenal amount of information in a short video. Now living New England it helps me happily recognize many of the styles I see, which are still be made. Thank you.

[@debbralehrman5957]

I like all the architecture Shown. And the Louis Bolduc House really caught my eye. With that wrap around gallery porch is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing these wonderful homes.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌺

[@brendadrew834]

Thank you, a great very informative, fascinating video, much appreciated! As a Yankee New Englander whose maternal forebears from the UK, Scotland and Ireland go back to 1648 landing in Portsmouth, NH and 1721, I'm well aquainted with New England architecture. I spent my summers in my late maternal grandmother's house on Cape Cod built in 1776. Love the low ceilings, the narrow staircase up to two bedrooms under the eaves and all the black latches on the doors, no doorknobs and wide plank floors! The two fireplaces though were boarded up. That was a 3/4 Cape, there is also a half cape with two windows to the right of the door and a full Cape with two windows on either side of the front door, no dormers though. The chimney's if left red brick made from the old salt mines showed you were for the colonies, if the chimney was painted white with a black border at the top, it meant you were a loyalist. Our chimneys were red brick from the old salt mines. Also grew up in northeastern NJ and remember the old Dutch Colonial houses there, remember the Van Steuben house. Williamsburg VA and old Sturbridge Village in MA are also great places to visit to see the different colonial homes, as well. I've also visited eastern Pennsylvania where my father's family is from since 1738 and am familiar with the architecture there as well, fieldstone homes with deep window sills which I love! The Saltbox which I also love, with the top overhang is also known as a "Garrison house", which can also be just a two story colonial house, not only a saltbox. The Greek Revival is another house built in the 1800s and we lived in one on the Cape built in 1850. Today, I live in a Victorian Carriage house part of a lovely old Victorian house in NH built in 1870. Appreciate learning about other types of architecture around the country, too and love window seats, screened in porches and beautiful staircases! As a professional illustrator/painter /designer also created greeting cards hand cut to look like different architectural styles, a famous church, summer theater and houses on the Cape.

[@Robin-g7q5d]

What a tour of Early American architecture! I live in the area of the Hankinson-Moreau-Covenhoven House in Freehold, NJ and yet have not visited it! I shall now!

[@jimwiskus8862]

Drayton Hall is a favorite for one reason. I love the window seats, specially in the “Ionic room”. My wife would love those! I can imagine curling up with a good book and a blanket on a winters day. While they probably didn’t see much if any snow, the blanket would alleviate the chill of the time of year. This was a great video Ken! Thanks so much! ❤😊

[@claudiamann7111]

Thank you so much for telling us all about the different styles. Great examples.

[@StamperWendy]

Many thanks for continuing to highlight architecture in Mass! ❤ I'm on Cape Cod. Thanks, Ken!

[@chuckseminski]

I've always loved the look of the Parson Capen House, as well as Southern Colonial. But I find features in many styles around the world that are beautiful and functional. I'm grateful for the scope of this particular video, it is exactly what I have desired to see.

[@lisakilmer2667]

Very interesting. I appreciate that you have written and edited your content to such a high standard.

[@wildfireintexas]

I couldn’t possible pick just one style. But if I could only live in one is would be the stone with white trim windows, slate roof, and dark wood interior exemplified by Washington’s winter headquarters in Valley Forge. There aren’t many left but they were quite common in the central Atlantic coastal colonies.

[@carolstephens-fortner6887]

Great video, Ken! Thanks!

[@jefflawrentz1624]

I’m torn to pick a favorite among so many favorites shown. I have been to Drayton Hall several times and hope to go back again. Bacon’s Castle in Surry, Va is another favorite finished in 1665 by Arthur Allen. Great episode, Ken!!

[@angiemehrtens1320]

I love Missouri's representation here. Love them because I'm there,so much

[@JeffDavis-gw1yh]

Spectacular homes! Loved this video. That said, I have been to Drayton Hall twice and it is still my favorite house of all.

[@JTThunderBOS]

I am partial to the MA and CT early houses. The Parson Capen house is an amazing example of the first period that is well preserved - well worth a visit especially when the Topsfield Fair is open. Unfortunately when these come up for sale in suburban Boston, many are too primitive for modern buyers who only want the land. Admittedly it may be hard to deal with 6'-8" ceilings, or bottom of exposed structure (sometimes less). I have seen the destruction recently of several 17th century houses that were just simply in the way. I live in a town that has about 5 remaining first period houses, where others have been well integrated with modern living. It takes a talented architect to make this happen.

[@roberthouston3809]

So beautiful! My fav style

[@honestmom1958]

I learned so much. Thank you!

[@The_Smith]

They all are my favourites when in the place they were designed for, but, salt box is one of my fave styles over all. Once upon a time when I was considering building a shop from scratch it was going to be a saltbox with an external staircase to the upper floor.

[@jill-ti7oe]

Traditional elegance. 👍

[@killianthiabaud3088]

Could you please one day make more european or asian linked content, so many castels, manors and palace you could talk about, even if you only talk about the "victorian" ones, I do love the channel so please continue !!

[@garryferrington811]

Very interesting video, nicely presented.

[@vernicethompson4825]

Of all the houses you showed here, Drayton Hall is my favorite. I grew up in a small house in Maine with a central chimney just like one you featured early in this video and which probably kindled my interest in historic architecture. I currently live in Williamsburg, Virginia, near historic Colonial Williamsburg, and greatly admire the homes here.

[@komyn27]

I love one of the substyles not covered in this video: the brick colonial houses around Washington D.C. You can find them all over MD and northern VA too now because architects build "modern" versions of them in the late 1800s referencing the original colonial homes. They're like a mix of PA quaker homes and the colonial homes you see in Williamsburg, VA. They're usually brick or stone, and they follow a super similar plan from house to house despite not being tied directly to an old world style. I think the 300 year obsession with these homes is pretty neat.

[@you2angel1]

The cabins may have looked rustic but they keep you warm. °~•.☆.•~°

[@fox123456789ish]

This could have been an hour long and I would have been all the more happy.

[@sortedsortof3474]

As always, a wonderful video. However, I would love to see you do a more thorough delve into certain rooms for a more historic understanding. This video in particular showed the kitchen and its stove. I would love a more detailed look at just how the people prepared meals and the work involved. Thank you again for always delivering a wonderful video.

[@betseyr.9081]

In 2016 I sold my much loved colonial circa 1794 located in New Hampton, NJ (#29). The entire small village is on the National Register of Historic Places.

[@GreatDataVideos]

Being from New England, but left over 40 years ago, I'm probably partial to some of those designs. You may want to do some videos of some of the homes on Nantucket.

[@Steven-wm9vu]

I always really liked saltbox and the early Spanish style homes. Thanks for the video, Ken!

[@wendybutler1681]

My Dutch relatives arrived in America iin 1654. They would have lived in houses just like these. Thanks for showing me a bit of my own history. My other half comes from Wales. There be dragons there.

[@haydeeandujo3923]

Wow I never realized there were so many colonial home styles.

[@jahearme4259]

Local building materials often determine style of houses

[@susannewendlandt5432]

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[@bscottb8]

It should be noted that early houses, with their stone and brick foundations, were not smothered in foundation-hiding bushes. That cliché began with less-attractive cement foundations.

[@CenturyHomeProject]

I'm Georgia born and raised. Since we were the last colony, we don’t have many colonial buildings. One that is still owned by the family, but the original building is in ruins is Wormslove plantation in Savannah Georgia. The original house was of tabby construction. It is in ruins, but the “new“ house which is antebellum is still on the property and owned by the original family. I believe the property is a land grant from king George III. You should look up White House" or " Mackay House" in August, Georgia. it’s a colonial house that’s pretty much intact. It was the site of a mass execution of revolutionary war soldiers by a British general. He hung 13 American men from the staircases that ran across the back of the house. It’s almost like the house has been frozen in time since then.

[@bluebox2000]

Really would have been nice to add the date of the house after its name.

[@ThisHouse]

Thanks for the feedback.

[@DLeadVox]

💛💛💛

[@raymurphyii]

When will we see more of the restoration of your home?

[@ThisHouse]

We hit a few road bumps during the restoration. I’ll definitely upload an update video, I just want to get more of the cosmetic work done before doing so. There’s been a lot of practical things (electric, hvac, etc) that I’ve had to prioritize. Stay tuned!

[@raymurphyii]

@@ThisHouse I completely understand! Just wanted to let you know some of us are still very interested!

[@ClancyWoodard-yw6tg]

Do you have a video on the lustron home

[@ThisHouse]

Not yet, stay tuned!

[@claireburkus8497]

Do you follow Second Empire’s video channel from St. Louis? He and his Dad have restored a Lustron( really unique niche designed homes.)

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

I miss real fireplaces, the smell, the sound of real crackling wood burning was great, I'd sit and stare at the fire for hours, it was the main source of heat in winter, even the hard work of spliting logs and storing it under the porch was hard work but satisfying, gas fire places dont do it for me

[@cynthiaclark8050]

RE Drayton all: I was shocked to see graffiti on the inside of the door under the stairs as well as missing elements on the staircase sides and need for repainting throughout. What organization manages this ? I suspect it's a government agency. TIA!

[@shawnathon60]

Pitts, Pa mexican War streets on the North side?

[@jayneneewing2369]

Ken are you like Hal?

[@LoneStarMillennial]

PILL uh stir. Pilaster. Think "pilar"

[@C.O.920]

Pizza Hut's architecture style is French Colonial?. .hehe

[@ThisHouse]

😂🤣

[@proudvirginian]

Is Drayton Hall in a state of disrepair or are they trying to make it look rundown on purpose?

[@roberthenry9319]

This "This House" video would have been absolutely fabulous if it had used a human narrator rather than what may be the worst "computer voice" (AI generated voice) on the internet. You Tube viewers who have the interest, education and intellectual curiosity to view a historical presentation such as this one also have the interest, education and intellectual curiosity to expect a video presentation which has taken the time and effort to provide narration by a human. If any of the people who are interested in historical material such as this went to a lecture on the topic and were presented with a horrible computer voice rather a human lecturer, they would walk out of the lecture and inform as many other interested people as they could that the presentation was a horrible scam and should be avoided at all cost. That is exactly how this video by "This House" should be addressed. A trash computer voiced video on You Tube such as this one should be avoided by interested viewers completely. "This House" clearly has no respect for its viewers. Viewers should have no respect for "This House".

[@ThisHouse]

How incredibly insulting. I narrated this, as I do all my videos.

[@thedubunderground4908]

@roberthenry9319 If you think this is AI generated voice, then you need to get your ears checked or maybe your speakers. MANY people around these parts LOVE Ken's voice. Find somewhere else to troll. We SEE Ken in nearly HALF of his videos, and he gives LIVE tours of mansions as well. Pay attention or keep your mouth shut. Probably an AI generated comment.

[@Steven-wm9vu]

@@ThisHouse We appreciate your work, Ken.

[@bscottb8]

In a roundabout way this complaint it a compliment, Ken. Your delivery is so smooth, so professional, that it can be mistaken for a computer voice.

[@vladislavandreev7257]

@@ThisHouse To prevent viewers from mistaking your voice for an AI generated one, you need to periodically get mixed up and stummer.😄