American Architecture 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 Esteban New Mexico,

Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo San Antonio,

French Settlements Parlange Plantation, Point Coupée Parish, Louisiana: 1750 Cahokia Courthouse, IL: 1737

Dyckman House New York, 1789

Parson Joseph Capen House Topsfield, MA 1683

Old Ship Meetinghouse Hingham, MA 1681

Adam Thoroughgood House Princess Anne County, 1690

Thoroughgood House Plan 1690

Bacon’s Castle Surry County, 1655

St. Luke’s, the Newport Parish Church Smithfield, VA

St. Luke’s Plan

Part II: Georgian Architecture with Vernacular Themes A. Early Georgian,

The William Byrd House Charles City County, VA 1750

William Byrd House Plan, 1750

George Wythe House Williamsburg, 1755

Wythe House Plan, 1755

John Sergeant House Stockbridge, MA 1739

Old South Meeting House Boston, 1713

Wren Building of William and Mary Williamsburg,

B. Late Georgian,

John Vassal House Cambridge, 1759

Lady Pepperrell House Kittery Point, Maine, 1760

MacPherson House Philadelphia

John Tayloe House Mount Airy, Virginia,

James Gibbs Plate 58 from A Book of Architecture London, 1728

Christ Church Philadelphia,

Hollis Hall Harvard University

Old State House (Independence Hall) Philadelphia