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GOTHIC REVIVAL (c.1825-c.1870) The picturesque and pointed forms of the Gothic Revival style were derived from medieval Gothic architecture. This style was first used in Vermont in the mid 1820s for churches.
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Gothic revivaln. An architectural style imitating elements of Gothic design, popular in Europe and North America from the late 18th to the beginning of the 20th century, especially in church and collegiate buildings.
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Gothic Revival (1840-1880)
(Churches through 1940s)
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Gothic Revival architecture came to America from England about 1830. Its most famous practitioner, English born Richard Upjohn, a cabinet maker and draftsman, arrived in this country as a young man in 1829.
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Gothic Revival
The Gothic Revival style developed in England in the 18 th century, and was boosted in the 19 th century by the chivalric writings of Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Love Peacock.
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Gothic Revival1.5-2.5stories By the 1830s this romantic style, which developed in England, became popular in the U.S.
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Gothic revival- Gothic architecture never died, but it was only from the early 1800s that it began to re-emerge in a serious fashion.
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Gothic Revival ( 1830-1890 ) - Bargeboards/ vergeboards - fashioned plank of lumber running full length of a gabled roof line, ...
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GOTHIC REVIVAL c. 1850 to 1870
emphasis on vertical line
main objective is visual effect rather than balance and symmetry ...
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Gothic RevivalAt the same time many of the more formal styles, with their controlled elegance and symmetry, were evolving a newer movement incorporated more romantic notions of architectural styles and designs.
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Gothic Revival - This style is the opening act for the Victorian Age. It is a reflection of the Picturesque movement (an aesthetic point of view celebrating the variety, texture, and irregularity inherent in nature) that began in Europe.
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It re-awoke in England with the Gothic revival of the i 9th century; and the Gothic revival `determined the direction modern glass should take. Early Victorian doings are interesting only as marking the steps of recovery (cf. the work of T.
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Pugin, champion of the Gothic Revival. Pugin took responsibility for the details of this vast monument (begun 1836). In a short and contentious career, he made a moral issue out of a return to the Gothic style.
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lancet - a narrow pointed arched opening seen in Gothic Revivallattice - openwork produced by inter lacing of wood laths or other thin strips, used as screening, especially under a porch ...
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TRACERY: decorative intersecting glazing bars in the upper portion of a window; most common in Gothic Revival styles. (IMAGE) TRANSOM: the horizontal framing member between a door and a window above; also refers to the window above a door. (IMAGE) ...
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bargeboard - a board, often ornately curved, attached to the projecting edges of a gabled roof; sometimes referred to as vergeboard. This feature was used throughout the Middle Ages as well as in the Gothic Revival of the 19th century.
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In America, however, it had become more original and became indigenous. By the late 1860's, Italianate architecture had completely overshadowed it's competitor Gothic Revival, which was once equally as popular.
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 See also: Gothic, Architecture, House, Roman, Ornament
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