Of all of the countries that have contributed to American vernacular architecture, it is arguably England, which stands out as the most influential. Although early America was founded by the English, it was also founded by the Spanish in the south, the French in the North and west, and the Dutch and Germans in the middle. Each brought their countries styles with them, but the styles of England always were associated with the landed gentry. Most English styles are not styles in themselves, but rather that which was popular under the reign of a particular monarch; which is why we have styles with names like Edwardian, Georgian and Victorian and a lot of general confusion of exactly what style house we are looking at. Most of what we think of as English architecture today grew out of something called the Arts And Crafts movement.