First Period

This article is about the colonial American style. For the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, see Menarche. For the first period in ice hockey, see ice hockey. For the first period of chemical elements, see Period 1 element. For the communist doctrinaire period, see Third Period.
The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, the oldest still-standing timber structure in North America, was built in c. 1637

First Period is an American architecture style originating between approximately 1626 and 1725, used primarily by British colonists during the settlement of the British colonies of North America, particularly in Massachusetts and Virginia. Among U.S. counties, Essex County, Massachusetts has the highest number of preserved First Period architecture buildings.[1]

  1. ^ Harris, Gordon (2015). "First Period, Georgian and Federal-era houses of Ipswich". Historic Ipswich on the Massachusetts North Shore. Retrieved October 13, 2020.