In thanking those who have so courteously assisted in the preparation of this book, acknowledgment must first of all be made to Miss Mary Harrod Northend, to whose suggestion the undertaking was entirely due, and whose illustrations have, in large measure, made it possible of realisation. The author gratefully records his indebtedness also to Messrs. J. B. Lippincott Company, of Philadelphia, for permission to use a number of illustrations of Pennsylvania houses that appeared in “The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and its Neighbourhood”, by H. D. Eberlein and H. M. Lippincott, and likewise for permission to reproduce an illustration of the Adam Thoroughgood house from “Historic Virginia Homes and Churches”, by Robert A. Lancaster, Jr.; to the _Architectural Record_ for permission to incorporate, in chapters IV, VIII and XI, parts of papers contributed to that magazine; to Dr. George W. Nash of Old Hurley, for generous assistance in supplying many illustrations drawn from a wide geographical area; to H. L. Duhring, Jr., of Philadelphia, for suggestions that bore important fruit in the progress of the work and for the illustration of the Saal at Ephrata; to Messrs. R. A. Lancaster, Jr., G. C. Callahan and Joseph Everett Chandler for sundry items of assistance; to the Librarian and staff of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and to the Librarian and staff of the Pennsylvania Historical Society for continued courtesies while the following pages were in course of preparation, to the _Brickbuilder_, to Mr. Edmund C. Evans and, finally, to Messrs. Horace Mather Lippincott and Philip B. Wallace for valuable help in the matter of photographs. HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN. PHILADELPHIA, August, 1915. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 1 II. THE DUTCH COLONIAL TYPE, 1613-1820 14 III. THE COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE OF NEW ENGLAND 38 IV. PRE-GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES 57 V. THE COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTH 77 VI. THE GEORGIAN MODE IN NEW ENGLAND 99 VII. GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK 113 VIII. PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE GEORGIAN, 1720-1805 120 IX. THE GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE OF THE SOUTH 156 X. THE POST-COLONIAL PERIOD AND THE CLASSIC REVIVAL 166 XI. PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF THE COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL PERIODS 182 XII. CHURCHES OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD 205 XIII. MATERIALS AND TEXTURES 236 XIV. EARLY AMERICAN ARCHITECTS AND THEIR RESOURCES 252 INDEX 275 LIST OF PLATES