Literally
the architecture of New York as a colony, whether of The Netherlands or
Great Britain. It doesn't necessarily imply either white clap-board or
shutters and is best exemplified in Manhattan by St. Paul's Chapel (the
only Colonial building remaining from before 1776) and by some of the Dutch
Colonial farmhouses of southeastern Brooklyn. The Revival of the late 19th
century provided overblown versions for a romanticized Colonial Revival.