Virginia Fences II

 

Porches

 

In colonial America . . . "hooded doors or small covered entryways flanked by benches, often called stoops (from the Dutch "stoep" for step) that served as short covered transitions to and from the outdoors were common features, especially in New York and the mid-Atlantic colonies." -- Keperling Preservation Services

Virginia Fences

 

"New-Englanders have a saying, when a man is in liquor, he is making Virginia fences." -- Thomas Anburey (1779)