Greek Revival - Table of Contents
Greek Revival in Erie County - 1820-1860
By Austin Fox
An excerpt from "Erie County's Architectural Legacy," Austin Fox, ed. Pub. by the Erie County Preservation Board, 1983.
Greek Revival houses usually have these features:
Pedimented gable
Symmetrical shape
Heavy cornice
Wide, plain frieze
Bold, simple moldings
Many Greek Revival houses also have these features: ...
Greek Revivalism n
Greek Revivalist adj & n
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Greek Revival architecture
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Greek Revival (1800-1855)
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Greek Revival architecture began in the United States with public buildings erected in Philadelphia. Greek Revival style houses were built in all settled areas by 1860. It became the first "national style" in the United States.
GREEK REVIVAL (c.1830-c.1875)
The antiquities of Greece inspired the Greek Revival style, the most common 19th century architectural style in Vermont. This style was in widespread use from the 1830s until after the Civil War.
Greek Revival
2-2.5 stories
Professionals in the mid-19th century saw the U.S., with its democratic principles, as the spiritual successor of ancient Greece.
Greek Revival
This style is predominantly found in the Midwest, South, New England, and Midatlantic regions, though you may spot subtypes in parts of California.
Greek Revival: The Greek Revival style (1825-1860) came into being as a result of the first organized excavations of ancient buildings in Greece. Greek Revival houses were designed to resemble classical Greek temples.
Greek Revival
a phase of Neoclassicism that spread the idea of ơnoble simplicity and calm grandeur."
greek-cross plan ...
Greek Revival
Italian Renaissance architects revived Roman architecture only. As Greece was ruled by the Ottoman Turks, it was not possible to study the ruins of Ancient Greek buildings.
Greek revivalist cenotaph, Anzac Square. Brisbane, Australia
Centrally planned - Of a building which radiates from central point, as distinct from one on an Axial plan, e.g. an octagonal building as opposed to a Basilica.
GREEK REVIVAL
Side-gabled or front-gabled Roof: low pitch
Slight eave overhang with wide band of trim below
Roof-top cupolas
Rectangular transom lights and sidelights
Pilasters to sides of doors (may have pediment) ...
Federal/Adam
Greek Revival
Gothic Revival
Italianate/Italian Villa
VICTORIAN-ERA STYLES ...
were given Greek names-Syracuse, Ithaca, Troy-and Doric and Ionic columns, entablatures, and pediments, mostly transmuted into white-painted wood, were applied to public buildings and important town houses in the style called Greek Revival.
Antebellum, Bungalow, Craftsman Bungalow, Greek Revival, Italianate, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival
Roof Types
Gable, Hipped, Mansard, Shed, Saltbox, Pyramidal, Gambrel, Flat
Shingles ...
Mount Fairview is built in the Classical Revival or Greek Revival style. The enormous giant order Ionic columns across the front have scroll capitals with front and back volutes and an egg and dart echinus.
See also Architecture; Drama and Dramatic Arts; Greek Art and Architecture; Greek Literature; Greek Music; Greek Revival; Latin Literature; Music, Western; Neoclassical Art and Architecture; Painting; Renaissance Art and Architecture; ...
Gothic Revival Colonial Floor Plans
Greek Revival Floor Plans
Italianate Floor Plans
Log Cabin Floor Plans
Mediterranean Floor Plans
Mission Floor Plans
Modern Floor Plans
Neoclassical Floor Plans
Neotraditional Floor Plans ...
sidelights - a vertical line of small glass panes flanking a doorway. Used throughout American architecture beginning with the Greek Revival.
pilaster : A pilaster is a rectangular support which resembles a flat column. The pilaster projects only slightly from the wall, and has a base, a shaft, and a capital. Greek Revival homes often have pilasters.
In architecture it saw the rise of Palladianism; the styles of Robert Adam; the fashions for Rococo, Chinoiserie, Gothick and Hindoo. It also embraced early Gothic and Greek revivals and Neoclassicism.
spreading convex capital and no base to the column. Compare Roman Doric.Greek fretIn classical architecture and decoration, a band of geometrical ornament composed of straight and vertical lines. Also called Greek key.Greek Revival ...
 See also: Greek, Architecture, House, Classical, Roman
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