Lily M.

2015

Architecture and the houses builders built gave the Settlers a place to live, cook, sleep, and feel comfortable. They were all adapted to the environment, culture and social class in a way that made the houses perfect for each of it’s inhabitants. There were so many people living in so many different kind of houses that not one house was the same as another. There were English houses, like Chesapeake houses, New England houses, Williamsburg houses. There were then Dutch houses, Native American houses, Native African houses and Plantation slave quarters. Then there was the question of class. Upper class? Middling class? Lower class? Lastly, there was environment and weather. Whether it was hot or cold, damp or dry, sunny or rainy, houses were different. People building houses nowadays also take under consideration the same aspects as they did four hundred years ago, class, culture, weather and environment.