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unusual facts about Colonial Revival



A. S. Bradford House

Designed by James Stafford, the Georgian Revival style Colonial Revival house was built in 1902.

Bethlehem, New York

Delmar post office: Built during the later years of the Depression, it is the only one of the 13 Colonial Revival-style New York post offices designed by Louis Simon that had no cupola.

East Suffolk Complex

The East Suffolk Elementary School, built as a Rosenwald School, is a one-story, Colonial Revival style, brick school with a central auditorium flanked by classrooms.

Maine Central School

It features a low hipped roof crowned by a multi-stage cupola with a Chippendale-inspired balustrade in the Colonial Revival style.

Mt. Cuba Center

Mt. Cuba Center started as the vision of the late Mr. and Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland, who began acquiring land near Wilmington, Delaware in 1935, and completed construction of their Colonial Revival house in 1937.

Schenectady City Hall

Their building went further in evoking the historical antecedents of Colonial buildings than most Colonial Revival buildings of the era, with enough neoclassical elements including a cupola styled after those on the buildings of Christopher Wren, that the building's style has been described as "neo-Georgian or neo-Federal".

Visalia Heights, Visalia, California

Traveling around the neighborhood, one also discovers that many other styles of architecturally significant homes are to be found here, such as Craftsman, Bungalow, Mission Revival, Art Deco, and Colonial Revival, to name a few.


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28th Street YMCA

The building was designed by noted African American architect Paul R. Williams in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

Colonial Revival architecture

Public interest in the Colonial Revival style in the early 20th century helped popularize books and atmospheric photographs of Wallace Nutting showing scenes of New England.

Don S. S. Goodloe House

The Don S. S. Goodloe House, a 1915–16 Colonial Revival style building veneered with brick, is significant for its association with Don Speed Smith Goodloe, the first principal of the Maryland Normal and Industrial School.

Pennypacker

Pennypacker Mills, a colonial revival mansion in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania