Fig. 6 shows just four examples of buildings associated with the Dutch Colonial style. The variety of building types labeled Dutch Colonial in North America is extensive. Builders utilized, brick, stone, and frame as building materials, and both gable and gambrel roofs as roof types—both roof types come with or without so-called flared eaves.
Unfortunately, there are no known surviving buildings from the initial period of settlement (circa 1624-1664), but we can learn a great deal about the architecture from the surviving colonial manuscripts.
The contracts specified in those manuscripts the construction of both dwelling houses and housebarns. The housebarn was a common multipurpose agricultural building in the Netherlands, providing shelter for the farmer and his family, his farmhands, and his livestock, and storage room for his crops.

_____ Case Study 1. The Hansford B. Ferguson House, Morgan County, Kentucky