The traditional house of the island it is usually built parallel to the inclination of the ground. Thus it can be two storied from the one side and one storied from the other. Usually has a yard surrounded with a tall wall. In the yard there is probably an oven. Sometimes, when the inclination of the ground is really big (Kastro) there aren’t any yards. Most of the times, the house has rectangle or square ground floor.

In the ground floor is located the warehouse for the harvests or a stable for the animals. The main house has one room or two that are separated with a wall made from stone. The small openings on the walls are for the protection from the pirates. Later, in the ground floor, except from the stocking places, there is also another room. The outside doors are made from wood. Usually the doors are big and tall so the animals can enter in the yard. An internal scale of wood or an exterior made from stone, lead to the first floor, which has the exterior walls made of stone.

The best room of the house is odas, without a fireplace but with many windows and ceiling made from wood. In the rest of the house there are the bedrooms, with fireplace and windows on both sides of the wall. At first there wasn’t any kitchen. Later there is but occupies a really small place. There are no bathrooms in the house. Usually the bathroom is located outside, in the yard.

The neoclassic style of Thasos is connected directly to the creation of the two most important seaside settlements of Limenas and Limenaria. The growth of Limenaria, which began in 1902, was really quick, because of the mines of aluminum that were exploited from the German company Speidel. The economic prosperity of the “Greek California” contributes to the construction of two or three storied houses with symmetric aspects, decorated with plant patterns. The ceiling is usually made from French tiles. The walls are still made from wood and stone.

Metogia are properties depending on the monastery that they belong. They have buildings where the workers used to live in, mills and warehouses but not necessarily a church. In Thasos all the monasteries of Agio Oros and the monastery of Ecosifinisa had metogia. The products that the monasteries imported from the island were wine and olive oil. The oldest properties are dated back to the 13th (Filoteou, Karacalou) and 12th century (Ecosifinisa). In the end of the 14th century all the properties of Thasos were granted to the monasteries of Agio Oros so that during the Turkish occupation, every metogi could remain a Greek place.