Sunday, February 21, 2010

What is the oldest house/building in the United States.?

I'm just curious about old buildings. Thanks Happy New Year,What is the oldest house/building in the United States.?
If you want the oldest standing STILL occupied structure, that would indeed be Taos Pueblo, most likely constructed sometime between 1000 and 1450.


http://www.taospueblo.com/about.php





If you are interested in buildings constructed after Europeans arrived the OLDEST of these in use of which at least a part of the original still stands is, interestingly, not far from Taos Pueblo. It is the Mission of San Miguel in Sante Fe was build around 1610. The oldest house, from about the same time, is just across the street.


http://www.legendsofamerica.com/HC-Santa鈥?/a>





The oldest surviving timber frame house in North America is believed to be the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts. Build around 1637-41, it was occupied by the Fairbanks family until it was converted to a museum in the early twentieth century.


http://www.fairbankshouse.org/





As for the oldest timber-frame house STILL occupied -- try the Pickering House on Broad Street, Salem, MA.


John Pickering built a house for his family from 1651-57. They moved in when the first section was built (1651) and have continuously occupied it ever since.


http://www.pickeringstudio.com/pickering鈥?/a>


http://www.salemweb.com/guide/tour/attra鈥?/a>What is the oldest house/building in the United States.?
The oldest structures on the territory that is now known as the United States were made by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples of New Mexico. The Tiwa speaking people have inhabited Taos Pueblo continuously for over 1000 years. The related Chacoan civilization built extensive public architecture in northwestern New Mexico from CE 700 - 1250 until drought forced them to relocate. Another related people, now best known through the Cliff Palace and neighboring structures in Mesa Verde National Park, created distinctive cliff dwellings in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona from the twelfth through to the fourteenth century.





Other Native American architecture is known from traditional structures, such as long houses, wigwams, tipis and hogans. Images of local Algonquian villages Pomeiooc and Secoton in what later became coastal North Carolina that survive from the late sixteenth century. Artist and cartographer John White stayed at the short-lived Roanoake colony for 13 months and recorded over 70 watercolor images of indigenous people, plants, and animals.
It will be an Tepee or Wigwam that the invading hordes have not destroyed.
The oldest buildings / housing that are still standing are the Pueblo indian's apartment complex in New Mexico built between 700-1250ad
I think there is a church or private house in Key West or someplace in that part of Florida that dates from the 1600s (or it might even be the 1500s), and is still in use.
There is a house of ill repute that has some very old ladies living in it. I think that one of them was shagged by George Washington.

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