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An 8 page research paper that discusses the architecture of early Southern homes. The writer explores the various ways in which the environment of the New World changed Old World architectural forms in seventeenth century homes. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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New Orleans, did not come to the North America in order to establish a new architecture. They brought with them the crafts and traditions for building homes that existed in
their countries of origin. Naturally, the first homes that they built--once they were sufficiently settled to think beyond more than basic shelter--were modeled after homes in their native lands (Waugh
and Waugh 4). Nevertheless, the environment of North America immediately offered both challenges and opportunities that caused American building to immediately begin the process of taking on a distinctive character
of its own. The following examination of early Southern homes (seventeenth century or earlier) explores the various ways in which the environment of the New World changed Old World architectural
forms. Naturally, the beginning of American architecture was extremely crude. In the spring of 1607, 144 colonists sailed forty miles up the James River and established Jamestown, Virginia, the
first permanent English settlement in North America (Lane 8). Several months later, the colonists were still living in tents and huts thatched with reeds (Lane 8). A colonist wrote, "We
had yet no houses to cover us, our Tents were rotten, and our Cabins worse than nought" (Lane 8). By 1609, Jamestown consisted of fifty small homes, a church and
a storehouse (Lane 9). In contrast to the shrinking forest of Europe where timber was already scarce, North America abounded with wood. In fact, forests had to be cleared
in order to make agriculture possible. Therefore, it was simply logical to replace the brick wall construction of the English Renaissance home with the wood frame wall of the American
colonial house (Waugh and Waugh 4). Of course, this also increased the chance of fire and this later meant that many urban homes and public buildings would be constructed of
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