1776 Building Design References
Imported from TimeWalkOrg/Manhattan wiki
Periods: Manhattan 1776
For references, see images on the page “1776 - British-occupied New York”.
- Quora: “What did New York City look like in 1776 and during the American Revolution” (Awesome examples: some pasted in below)
- King George III statue in Bowling Green (notes and images from our Issues list)
- Francis Xavier Haberman painting of 1776 British troops arriving in New York
- Assassin’s Creed III New York walkthrough
Building Design Examples
- Assassin’s Creed III has a detailed 1776 New York City (full video tour here)
Note “occupied New York” details like: fire damage on left of Bowling Green, missing George III statue, actual bowling green.
Here are a few more references of existing New England buildings constructed prior to 1776:
William Pitt Tavern (Portsmouth, NH)
Strawberry Banke buildings (Portsmouth, NH)
A painting of the Bowling Green c.1776:
Plan of the City of New York (1776)
The above is a detailed plan of Manhattan in 1776. If you zoom in, you can see that the shaded brown areas mark where buildings were, with several buildings seemingly connected with each other.
Found some image sources that could give guidance on building design. I made sure the artist of each image was alive around 1776 to ensure the work was a primary source:
1775 New York Harbor
1765 painting depicting the view of Harlem from the Bronx
1746 depiction of the wall street ferry house
Primary source painting of the 1776 Battle of Long Island
Painting capturing the ruined Trinity Church following fire of 1776
Dyckman Farmhouse (built 1784)
