Abstract
Ideas of Plymouth Colony's architecture have changed from log cabins to Plimoth Plantation's framed cottages. Lacking historical evidence about the earliest houses, the museum's architecture has recurrently reflected new historiographical emphases, away from the heroic ancestors to succeeding concepts of social history. This article identifies four themes that influenced the forms of Plimoth Plantation's replica houses — Pilgrims as Prototypical Suburbanites; as Folk; as Identifiably Ethnic; and Pilgrims as Representatives of their Class. Finally, fashionably up-to-date, the article concludes that, because of environmental changes, accurate reconstructions are now impossible; and attention may shift from the Pilgrims to Native American culture.
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