See also: Barns; Biltmore House; Christ Episcopal Church; College of Design; Cupola House; Independence Building; State Capitol; Architecture overview (NCSU)
Part i: Introduction; Part ii: Architectural Influences and Achievements in Early North Carolina; Part iii: Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Other Nineteenth-Century Trends; Part iv: Twentieth-Century Innovations and the Rise of the Architectural Profession; Part v: North Carolina Architecture after World War II
Architecture in North Carolina has been transformed over four centuries by ever-evolving design trends, techniques, and purposes. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the first generations of British and African settlers in North Carolina built small frame buildings and log structures. Such short-lived and expedient buildings met the immediate needs of the frontier settlement in the subtropical forest. Later in the eighteenth century, colonists began to construct larger buildings and employ more permanent materials and methods that required the skilled labor of trained artisans. The small, brick Newbold-White House in Perquimans County typifies the modest scale of the earliest durable houses, including its two-room plan with an entrance directly into the principal room. Representing the most elaborate work of the mid-eighteenth century is the Cupola House in Edenton, a massive frame house with the eccentric combination of a cupola and an overhanging jetty.
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