colonial kitchen
In the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, a kitchen inspired by the kitchens of Colonial America. A colonial kitchen is usually large, with a wide, open hearth, and contains no modern conveniences (or else contains modern conveniences contrived to look pre-modern). Colonial revivalists of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries looked back upon colonial dwellings, especially colonial kitchens, with nostalgia for earlier, pre-industrial times. The colonial kitchen display of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago was exceedingly popular amongst Colonial Revival enthusiasts. (Easement, 2017) Photo from Historic Jamestowne, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2019.
Photo from Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2025.
Photo from The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, 2025.