Pre-Columbian Architecture

PIC OF PRE-COLUMBIAN ARCHITECTURE

The oldest structures on the territory that is now known as the United States were made by the Ancient Pueblo People of the four corners region. [2] The Tiwa speaking people have inhabited Taos Pueblo continuously for over 1000 years. [3] 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 Roanoke Colony for 13 months and recorded over 70 watercolor images of indigenous people, plants, and animals.
Hawaii's late entry to the United States gives it a substantial history of precolonial architecture. Earlier structures reflect Polynesian heritage. Late nineteenth century Hawaiian architecture shows various foreign influences.