The United States is a melting pot, and all the many countries who colonized the land left behind evidence of their own styles. There is Spanish, French, Dutch, and British Colonial architecture ...

The Hotel Metropole, opened in 1901, reflects the French colonial era in Vietnam. Image courtesy of Flickr user E8club Hanoi is one of my favorite cities in Southeast Asia, a place where history ...

Trends always start somewhere, and in the mid 19th century, the best way to start a trend that would encompass the entire country, was to introduce it at a huge celebration or fair. Before the 1893 ...

This popular revival style takes its cues from 17th- and 18th-century colonial architecture, when early Dutch settlers built homes with a broad gambrel roof and flared, overhanging eaves. Original ...

The LaPointe-Krebs House is rarer than we originally thought, a historian and architects told Jackson County supervisors on Monday. Scientists have proven it’s old, but it’s also one of the very last ...

It is estimated that from 1910 to 1930, 40% of all homes constructed in the United States were designed in the Colonial Revival style. Based on the aesthetics and charm of historic Georgian and ...

Interestingly, Dutch Colonial Revival style didn’t get its name directly from Holland or even Colonial architecture. Instead, it refers to the 17th-century Dutch colonists who settled in coastal New ...

American colonial is a type of architecture that embodies a mixture of styles that came into being throughout the 1600s and 1700s, when America was under colonial rule and those who settled in the ...