Georgian
Four King Georges in England. George III ruled England when Neoclassicism was popular.
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Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840.
Georgian Colonial homes usually have these features:
Square, symmetrical shape
Paneled front door at center
Decorative crown over front door
Flattened columns on each side of door
Five windows across front
Paired chimneys ...
Georgian (1700-1850)
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An architectural style rarely lasts even close to a century, but that is the case with the Georgian style.
Georgian Architecture
Their first homes were log houses. These were replaced by solid stone, brick or clapboard buildings as soon as possible.
The refined Georgian style with its classical details continue to inspire the architecture of today.
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Befitting a king--in fact, the style is named for four King Georges of England--Georgian homes are refined and symmetrical with paired chimneys and a decorative crown over the front door.
Georgian: The Georgian style (1700-1780) is named for the English kings of the 17th and 18th centuries (Georges I, II, III and IV). The earliest Georgian houses in the U.S.
Georgian
The prevailing style of English architecture during the reigns of George I, II, and III (1714- 1820), based on the principles of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
GEORGIAN The period during the reign of the four Georges (1714-1830). In architecture it saw the rise of Palladianism; the styles of Robert Adam; the fashions for Rococo, Chinoiserie, Gothick and Hindoo.
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A period of design in English furniture from 1714 to 1795. Among the best known designers were Hepplewhite, Sheraton, Chippendale, and the Adams Brothers. Mahogany and walnut were the chief woods used.
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- the period from the accession of King George I in 1714 to the death of King George IV in 1830, including therefore the first ten years of the Regency period, which became characterised by the bow front.
Georgianism
1. in England, the modes of architecture, furniture, decoration, and silver produced from about 1714 to 1830; architecturally, it embraced several styles: Palladian, Early Gothic Revival, Chinese, ...
architecture, at its peak in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which aimed at a purer imitation of the buildings of the Greeks and Romans, or at a more logical and rigorous use of the elements of the classical style.Neo-Georgian ...
GEORGIAN
Side-gabled, gambrel or hip Roof: moderate or varied pitch,
Slight eave overhang, boxed with modillions, dentils, or other classical moldings
Gabled or pedimented dormers
Segmental arched doors, windows, porches ...
These developments reinforced the influence of Neo-Classicism in England, and the resulting architectural idiom became popularly known as the Georgian style.
Georgian Colonial buildings, in the English manner, were ideally in brick, with wood trim, wooden columns and entablatures painted white. In the US, one found both brick buildings as well as those in wood with clapboards.
At Dortkilise, the the Ohta Eklesia, a three-aisle Georgian basilica from the 10th century, has a raised chancel about 1 metre above the nave. whim of the builder and the fashion of the time.
Late Georgian architecture was often eclectic, with buildings in a variety of architectural styles, inspired by Indian, Islamic and medieval architecture. Late Victorian architecture was also said to be eclectic.
Because of the ease of contruction, the Tuscan mode became part of the vernacular Georgian style that has lingered in places like New England and Ohio deep into the 19th century.
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History
Prehistory - Roman Britain - Dark Ages - Medieval Britain - The Tudor Era - The Stuarts - Georgian Britain - The Victorian Age
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PALLADIAN WINDOW A three-part, round-arched window, named for the 15th century Italian architect Andreas Palladino, also known as a Venetian Window and common in the Georgian and Colonial Revival styles.
fanlight - a window, often semi-circular, over a door, with radiating muntins suggestive of a fan. Used widely in several periods of architecture, including Georgian, Federal, and Colonial Revival.
QUOINS - The dressed stones at the corners of buildings, usually laid so their faces are alternatively large and small. Usually in contrasting colour of brick or stonework from the rest of the wall. Common in Georgian houses.
influenced a classical revival that encompassed the ideals of, simple, geometric forms. It was the opposite of Baroque pomposity. Palladianism launched by Lord Burlington in England spread to the American colonies and became known as Georgian style ...
In the period of the Georgian era the geometrical staircase was much favoured and very generally used in domestic buildings.
 See also: Architecture, House, Classical, Roman, Renaissance
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