The following description of Colonial architecture was published
in 1928 by in the Home Builders Catalog: "The Colonial
architecture is more closely associated with American history
and traditions than any other type of architecture. A brief
review of the famous dwellings to which Americans look with
pride will show them to one Colonial style or another. So
closely has the Colonial home been interwoven with American Life
that it is only within recent years that a family of culture
would consider anything else. Nor must we think that all houses
looked alike, for in its wide and extensive use different kinds
of Colonial houses developed. Colonial houses flourished in New
England, in New York, in Virginia and the South and in the North
under diverse climates and conditions. As necessity is the
mother of architecture, it was inevitable that Colonial
architecture should develop along various lines.
"Nothwithstanding the close association of Colonial architecture
with American home life and the fact that it has tak