Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 118

INDIAN HOMES. —-//.—._ THE FOREST ¢ INDIANS LIVED &g, IN LODGES MADE OF A FRAMEWORNK OF BENT SAPLINGS COVERED WITH A SHEETS OF BARK” . -HE FIRST HOMES BUILT IN ' AMERICA BY WHITE MEN WERE CRUDE, TEMPORARY SHELTERS. HUTS LIKE THESE WERE ERECTED BY THE ENGLISH COLONISTS AT JAMESTOWN VIRGINIA, IN 160T. THE STURDY FRENCH HABITANTS' BUILT STONE COTTAGES LIKE THOSE OF THEIR FOREFATMERS IN NORMANDY AND BRITTANY, —e REACHED TNE TREELESS PRAIRIES OF THE WEST, THE SETTLERS BUILT TEMPORARY HOMES QF SOD». —e .N TIME MORE SUBSTANTIAL AND PRETENTIOUS HOMES WERE BUILT. ABOVE IS A TYPE OF HOME COMMON IN NEwW ENGLAND THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE LAND- ING OF THE PILGRIMS, —— = CANADIAN FORESTS ROSE BiG BARONIAL HALLS, THE HOMES OF THE GREAT "SEIGNEURS WHO GOVERNED NEW FRANCE,REPLICAS OF THE BEAUTIFU). CHATEAUX OF THE OLD COUNTRY. BHE INDIANS OF THE SOUTH- WEST LIVED IN TERRACED, POBE “PuUEBLOS" ON THE TOP OF ROCKY § B [ £ - .HE NEWCOMERS BROUGHT Eu- ROPEAN ARCHITECTURE TO THE NEW WORLD. INTHE SOUTHWEST THE SPANISH "CONQUISTADORES' BUILT HOMES LIKE THE ONES THEY HAD LERT IN SPAIN. . N THE SOUTHERN COLONIES THE STATELY MANSIONS THAT WERE BUILT ON THE GREAT PLANTATIONS REFLECTED THE HOSPITALITY OF THEIR OWNERS. | . ENENTUALLY CHANGED THE APPEAR- ANCE OF THE CITIES . TO SAVE SPACE CITY HOMES WERE BulT TALLER AND IN COMPACT ROWS WITH PARTY WALLS BETWEEN THE HOUSES.—* NINETEENTH CENTURY A GREAT MAUORITY OF THE PEOPLE LINED ON SMALL FARMS, HERE IS A TYPICAL FARM OF THAT PERIOD. MESAS. EACH || PUEBLO WAS CARROLL MANSFIELD HE DUTCH SETTLERS OF NEW AMSTERDAM (NEW YORIK) MADE THE CITY RESEMBLE A BITOFOLD HOLLAND WITH THEIR QUAINT, STEPPED-GABLE BRICK HOUSES. .N THE FRONTIER,WHICH STEADILY MOVED WESTWARD, THE CABIN OF ROUGHLY-SQUARED> LOGS WAS THE TYPICAL NOME OF THE HARDY PIONEER. .ms TYPE OF RESIDENCE WAS CONSIDERED THE HEIGHT OF ELEGANCE IN THE MID- VICTORIAN "SEVENTIES. —* (Copyright, 1930, by J. Carroll Mansfield)