Jeffrey B.

You take your house for granted but then you think building a house is easy because of all
the machines. But in the 1600’s you spent days of hard work just to live in a small house with
one room. There are different styles of houses that I will go through, these different styles of
homes were in New Sweden, New Amsterdam, and the first French colonial empire.

Chapter 1:

New Sweden was the first colony to have durable homes because of notches on the side of
the logs, on the side of the house. The house has no vertical poles, except along the doorway
and the windows, they were also relatively large compared to other colonial houses. New
Sweden was colonized on the Delaware River, a good number of the settlers lived there.
A part of New Sweden was Fort Christina, Fort Christina was the first Swedish fort in North
America, it was built in 1624 and was named after queen Christina of Sweden. New Sweden
had many forts only one of them was not to close to the shore of the Delaware river Fort
Casimir was a dutch fort in the seventeenth-century colony of new Sweden. It was located
on a no-longer existing barrier at the end of Chestnut Street in what is now Newcastle,
Delaware.  

Chapter 2:

New Amsterdam was a dutch trading post on Manhattan island, the house was a dugout
with a simple box structure and a semicircle roof (left). The chimney where made out of sticks
and clay, as you guessed that was not durable at all. There where many copies of the native
American houses, but the native Americans were more skilled at making houses. Additionally
New Amsterdam was under threat of attack from European colonies, they formed a plan to
protect the mouth of the river that was forming Fort Amsterdam. New Amsterdam was formed
on the southern tip of the island. By the end of 1625, the site had been staked out directly
south of bowling green on the site of the present U.S.The Mohawk-Mahican War in the
Hudson Valley led the company to relocate even more settlers to the vicinity of the new Fort
Amsterdam. In the end, colonizing was a prohibitively expensive undertaking, only partly
subsidized by the fur trade. This led to a scaling back of the original plans. By 1628, a smaller
fort was constructed with walls containing a mixture of clay and sand.

Chapter 3:

First French colonial empire, during the 16th century the French colonized America and
brought their ability to build great houses with them their colony was so big that they had
two colonial empires but only one was in North America the French colonial empire lasted
from 1534-1980 and it was split into two time periods the first French colonial empire lasting
from 1534-1830 and the second french colonial empire lasting from 1830-1980 The early
French Colonial house type of the Mississippi River Valley region was the poteaux-en-terre,
constructed of heavy upright cedar logs set vertically into the ground. These basic houses
featured double-pitched hipped roofs and were surrounded by porches to handle the hot
summer climate. the presence of France in Senegal was limited to a trading post on the
island of Goree, a narrow strip on the coast, the town of Saint Louis, and a handful of trading
posts in the interior. The economy had largely been based on the slave trade, carried out by
the rulers of the small kingdoms of the interior, until France abolished slavery in its colonies
in 1848.

Conclusion:

In over all colonial times architecture was amazing though not as advanced as modern
architecture the architecture was very diversified and I picked some of the most advanced
colonial houses and forts though you will go most of your life without you needing to use this
but like a flash of lightning it will all come back to you but their our some things we will never
know including the blueprints of historical pieces in the evolution of human society.