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When it was constructed in 1931, the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the World. Today it's the tallest building in New York City.
Second Empire 1860-1890
The Second Empire style house is an imposing two or three-story symmetrical square block with a projecting central pavilion often extending above the rest of the house.
Second Empire (1860s-1880s)
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Second Empire houses in Ontario are usually brick, though stone and the occasional wooden house can be found. They are usually found in the best part of town, usually with sumptuous gardens surrounding them.
Second Empire
Popular in the Midwest and Northeast, this Victorian style was fashionable for public buildings during Ulysses S. Grant's presidency, but its elaborate, costly detail fell out of favor in the late 1800s for economic reasons.
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The Second Empire style is an example of a roof style which identifies a house type! Mansard roofs increase the head room in the attic space; hence providing an additional story.
FRENCH SECOND EMPIRE (c.1865-c.1885)
The French Second Empire style is named after the Mansard-roofed buildings of France constructed during Napoleon III's Second Empire in the third quarter of the 19th century.
Carolingian Empire
"Renovatio Romani Imperii"
On Christmas day 800 Charlemagne (768-814) was crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III. The ceremony took place at St. Peter's in Rome.
The name, Second Empire, referred to a style that developed during the "Second French Republic" (or "Empire" - the era following France's 1848 Revolution) and principally during the time of Emperor Napoleon III.
Empire
A period of Neo-classic design during the reign of Napoleon 1804-14. Greek, Roman, and Egyptian motifs were widely used. The style spread throughout Europe and appeared in America in some of Duncan Phyfe's work.
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Roman empire. The name derives from Byzantium, another name for Constantinople, the eastern capital. The style continued for over one thousand years, surviving until the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453.
SECOND EMPIRE c. 1860s to 1880s
mansard roof which permits full use of top floor space and eliminates sloping ceilings of gable roof
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SECOND EMPIRE (SOUTHCOTT): a style of architecture where the structure has a mansard (French) roof, usually there are bonneted dormers in the curved section of the roof. It may be extravagantly ornate. (IMAGE) ...
Empire (style)
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Regency Society, a Brighton & Hove group promoting preservation of Regency architecture
Regency style in furniture
Regency Classicism Style Guide. British Galleries. Victoria and Albert Museum.
The empire which grew to replace the power of Mali was the Songhay Empire of Gao, with its centre on the banks of the Niger in the east of the modern state of Mali.
Although the Empire was religiously diverse, by the late fourth century Christianity became the official religion of the Empire, ...
SECOND EMPIRE
Mansard Roof
Slight eave overhang with brackets
Arched top dormers
Square towers
Roof-top cupolas
Pilasters to sides of doors (may have pediment)
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(1) Architecturally, a basilica is an oblong, colonnaded building that was used in the Roman Empire as a town hall or law court. The style was later adapted by Christianity in its church architecture.
Unlike the tenuously allied Greek city-states, Rome became a powerful, well-organized empire that, architecturally no less than culturally and politically, left its mark throughout the Mediterranean world, north-west as far as Britain, ...
In most parts of the Roman Empire wealthy homeowner lived in one story building with few windows. This was to prevent both noise coming from the streets.
It is applied to the grotesque decoration derived from Roman remains of the early time of the empire, not to any style derived from Arabian or Moorish work.
In Constantinople (Istanbul), after its virtual separation from the Western Empire, arose a style of art and architecture which was practised by the Greek Church during the whole of the middle ages. This is called the Byzantine style.
Political the Holy Roman Empire, the Capetian sovereigns of the Franks, and the Dukes of Normandy were to restore that sense of nationality without which creative civilization is impossible, while the papacy, ...
A modern house is generally the residence of a nuclear family, but a house in the Roman Empire was a much larger building that was not just the home of an extended family, its slaves, and employees, it was also the household's place of business.
During the Roman Empire this was a type of large public building with an open interior and usually with side aisles separated from the main space by rows of evenly spaced columns.
A style which originated at Byzantium (Constantinople), the Eastern capital of the Roman Empire, in the 5th century, spreading around the Mediterranean and, with Eastern (Orthodox) Christianity, from Sicily to Russia in later centuries.
catacomb : Subterranean burial chamber used during the Roman Empire.
Initially influenced by Roman antiquity, as Greece became accessable following the fall of the Ottoman empire, Greek clasicism became popular, along with the picturesque, and the exotic and oriental.
The order was the first to establish missions in Mexico after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire and eventually would establish missions in northern Mexico, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, ...
Castron: A small fortified outpost of the Byzantine empire.
Cavalier: A gun platform which is raised higher that the rest of the works, used to command the surrounding works, ...
Characterized by a cheerful, homely bulk, Biedermeier is an adaptation of the luxurious, neoclassical French Empire and Directoire styles to inexpensive materials and comfortable, sometimes vulgar, bourgeois tastes.
The term "Gothic", comes from a term given to the style of Renaissance Schlor, Giorgi Vasari, who wrongly associated the form to the Gothics, Germanic invaders who helped lead to the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire.
Although the Carolingian empire itself would not survive past the ninth century, the civilizing forces set in motion during this era would form the foundation for cultural growth during the Medieval age.
It probably originated in the Hittite, Assyrian and Babilonian empires and developed in Ionia in the c 7 BC. It is named after the city of Miletus. This type of plan was advocated by Hippodamos, who is sometimes incorrectly said to have invented it.
A roof with two slopes, the lower slope almost vertical to allow extra roof space for the attic rooms. A defining feature of Second Empire-style homes.
Mantel
The frame surrounding a fireplace, often with a shelf above the opening.
Being of such unique design in colonnade and building structure, famous Greek structures have been replicated and imitated for centuries. Even great empires as in Rome have attempted to adapt the infamous Greek style.
ormolu Gilt (gold-leafed) bronze sculptural elements, commonly used as decoration in the 19th century on "Empire" style furniture, lamps, and interior ornament.
At the beginning of the Norman era the style of architecture that was in vogue was known as Romanesque, because it copied the pattern and proportion of the architecture of the Roman Empire.
CRESTING Roof cresting is a lacy decorative fencing made of wrought iron, rimming the edge or peak of a roof, often seen in Second Empire (Mansard) style buildings.
There were a number of architectural styles during this era: Neoclassicism (1840-70), Gothic Revival (1840-1900 and later), Italianate (1870-1900), Second Empire (1855-1885), Romanesque Revival (1870-1900), Eastlake (1870-1890), ...
This may have derived from the work of the 16th-century critic Vasari, who attributed medieval artistic styles to the barbarian Goths, who invaded the Roman Empire between the 3rd and 5th centuries and destroyed ‘classicism’.
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