Colonial architecture is the hybrid architectural style that results when settlers combine the building traditions of their home country with the characteristics of the place they have settled, typically producing houses and buildings that feel familiar in form but are adapted to a new climate and to locally available materials. Because the pattern repeated across the colonial territories of several different imperial powers, including Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Russia and Italy, it produced a family of regionally distinct results rather than one single look, each balancing the conventions of the colonizing country against the practical demands of its new setting; the more specific American, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Italian colonial traditions on this atlas are individual instances of this broader pattern. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Colonial Architecture (Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Colonial Architecture
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Butantã's House (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Butantã's House, infobox architectural_style field: Colonial style, Bandeirista styleView the Source Casa de Liniers (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Casa de Liniers, infobox architectural_style field: ColonialView the Source Wikipedia: The Peninsula Hong Kong
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The Peninsula Hong Kong is a colonial-style luxury hotel located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall (Wikipedia)
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The Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, also known as Wan Qing Yuan, and formerly as the Sun Yat Sen Villa, is a two-story colonial style villa in Balestier, Singapore.
Chopawamsic (plantation) (Wikipedia)
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Category:Colonial architecture in Virginia
Belvoir (plantation) - Wikipedia
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Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family.
Traveller's Rest (Kearneysville, West Virginia) (Wikipedia)
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Category:Colonial architecture in West Virginia
Raspberry Plain (Wikipedia)
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In 1910, copper millionaire John Guthrie Hopkins rebuilt Raspberry Plain in the Colonial Revival style.
Fairbanks House (Dedham, Massachusetts) (Wikipedia)
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Category:Colonial architecture in Massachusetts
Rosewell Plantation (Wikipedia)
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In Mansions of Virginia, architectural historian Thomas Tileston Waterman describes the plantation house as "the largest and finest of American houses of the colonial period." Through much of the 18th century and 19th centuries, and during the American Civil War, Rosewell plantation hosted the area's most elaborate formal balls and celebrations.
Ravensworth (plantation) - Wikipedia
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Category:Colonial architecture in Virginia
Col. James Barrett Farm (Wikidata)
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architectural style: colonial architecture
Fazenda Velha (Wikipedia)
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Fazenda Velha is a Brazilian preserved site in the municipality of Telêmaco Borba, in Paraná, which houses a colonial-style mansion that served as the headquarters of the old Monte Alegre Farm (also called Fazenda do Alegre), along with other small buildings, such as the old water tank.
Kittiewan (Wikipedia)
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It is a typical Colonial-period medium-size wood-frame Virginia Tidewater plantation house, comprising a 1+1⁄2-story, main section with a gable roof, with an original gable-roofed ell and later lean-to addition.
José Castro House (Wikipedia)
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The Monterey Colonial style house was built 1838-41 by General José Antonio Castro, a former Governor of Alta California.
Maidstone (Owings, Maryland) (Wikipedia)
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Maidstone was built as a medieval-style house with a roof progressing upwards, which extends out over the north and south facades of the house to form a porch in what many consider is traditional Maryland Colonial style.
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