Abstract
The history of American architecture commences on May 14, 1607, with the bivouacking of Edward Maria Wingfield, first president of the King's Council for Virginia, and his companions, among the malarial swamps of Jamestown Island. From that day when, unknowingly, they founded the first permanent English settlement in the United States, until Christmas Day, 1620, thirteen years later, when the Pilgrim Fathers began to erect their first house at Plymouth, American architecture was as fundamentally medieval as the ancient churches of the Anglo-Saxons. In truth, it is no exaggeration to compare the earliest Jamestown buildings with those of the Anglo-Saxons, because many were fashioned, ipso facto, in the manner of those people of a thousand years before.
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