2_Vernacular Architecture

American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), French Colonial, Spanish Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. These styles are associated with the houses, churches and government buildings of the period from about 1600 through the 19th century.

2a_Origins and Survival of Netherlandic Building Traditions in North America

In 1621, the Dutch West India Company (WIC) received its charter from the States General for parts of West Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and a section of North America, to interfere with Spanish interests .
In 1624, the WIC did make its first serious attempts to settle its North American territory, known as New Netherland, to establish the permanent fur trade with the American Indians of the region .
The forty years of Dutch rule of New Netherland ended with the surrender of the colony to the English on September 8, 1664. Regardless of the fact that the English took control of the territory, signs of Netherlandic culture lasted well into the eighteenth century. Its most visible manifestation is the so-called Dutch Colonial architecture.