American Architecture1620-1790

Linzee Amory and Sylvia Yoo

Part I: Towards a Transplanted Vernacular

Strangers in a New World, colonial settlers strove to recapture home, adapting European traditions to

local conditions.

Church of San EstebanNew Mexico, 1630-1664

Mission San José y San Miguel de AguayoSan Antonio, 1720-31

French Settlements

• Parlange Plantation, Point Coupée Parish, Louisiana: 1750

• Cahokia Courthouse, IL: 1737

Dyckman HouseNew York, 1789

Parson Joseph Capen HouseTopsfield, MA 1683

Old Ship MeetinghouseHingham, MA 1681

Adam Thoroughgood HousePrincess Anne County, 1690

Thoroughgood House Plan1690

Bacon’s CastleSurry County, 1655

St. Luke’s, the Newport Parish ChurchSmithfield, VA 1632-1675

St. Luke’s Plan 1632-1675

Part II: Georgian Architecture with Vernacular Themes

A. Early Georgian, 1700-1750

The William Byrd HouseCharles City County, VA 1750

William Byrd House Plan, 1750

George Wythe HouseWilliamsburg, 1755

Wythe House Plan, 1755

John Sergeant HouseStockbridge, MA 1739

Old South Meeting HouseBoston, 1713

Wren Building of William and MaryWilliamsburg, 1695-1702

B. Late Georgian, 1750-1785

John Vassal HouseCambridge, 1759

Lady Pepperrell HouseKittery Point, Maine, 1760

MacPherson HousePhiladelphia 1761-62

John Tayloe HouseMount Airy, Virginia, 1758-1762

James GibbsPlate 58 from A Book of Architecture

London, 1728

Christ ChurchPhiladelphia, 1727-1754

Hollis HallHarvard University 1762-1763

Old State House (Independence Hall)Philadelphia 1731-1748