Saltbox homes can convey years of American colonial history in a single glance. With distinctive high pitched asymmetrical roofs, and flat, unadorned exteriors, these homes show how people lived in the nation’s earliest days, between the early 16th and late 17th centuries, adjusting their homes as needed to make things easier. Because of their unique features, Saltbox homes are also instantly recognizable, and among the iconic residences of the Northeast coast.
Like Cape Cod homes of the same era, Saltbox homes originated in New England and Atlantic Canada as homes for European settlers. These buildings were simple in design, with rectangular exteriors, high pitched, gabled roofs, and plain central entrances – in many ways exactly like Cape Cod homes, but with extra elements to accommodate the ever-evolving nature of colonial life. Saltboxes were also typically situated farther inland than Cape Cods, which helped encourage their more complex designs.
Saltbox homes got their name because they looked like the large asymmetrical wooden saltboxes everyone used in colonial times. This comparison grew even stronger over the years as many of the original...
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