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5 unusual facts about Federal architecture


Barnesville Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot

The depot is built in a Federal style with Spanish Mission elements.

Edward H. Hobson

Hobson's Federal style brick home in Greensburg (built by his father in 1823) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Federal architecture

The Bald Eagle was a common symbol used in this style, with the ellipse a frequent architectural motif.

Wilfrid Worland

Among the thousands of brick colonial and federal-style homes he designed since the 1930s were parts of Woodacres and the entire neighborhoods of Fallsreach, Falls Mead, Luxmanor, Old Farm and Westbard Mews in Maryland.

William Lee Golden

The Federal-style structure was built in 1786, then called "Pilot's Knob," on a military outpost by American Revolutionary War Captain James Franklin.


Asa Gray House

The house was designed in 1810 by architect Ithiel Town in the Federal style for the first head of the Harvard Botanic Garden, and has been the residence of ornithologist Thomas Nuttall and botanist Asa Gray.

Branford Center, Connecticut

Architectural styles represented in the Branford Center Historic District include Greek Revival architecture, Queen Anne architecture, and Colonial Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Federal architecture, Gothic Revival architecture, Second Empire architecture, Colonial architecture, Tudor Revival architecture and Bungalow architecture.

Brewster Homestead

The Brewster Homestead at 306 Preston Rd. in Griswold, Connecticut is a historic house including Colonial and Federal architecture.

Court End

Early American Federal architecture that is open to the public in Court End include the John Marshall House, Monumental Church, the Wickham House at the Valentine Richmond History Center, the White House of the Confederacy at the Museum of the Confederacy, Executive Mansion and Virginia State Capitol.

Hunt-Morgan House

The Hunt-Morgan House, historically known as Hopemont, is a Federal style residence in Lexington, Kentucky built in 1814 by John Wesley Hunt, the first millionaire west of the Alleghenies.

John Y. Hill

In approximately 1825, he built the Hill House (later known as Brown Pusey House), a Federal-style building in Elizabethtown.

Mansfield Center Historic District

It consists of 21 contributing buildings and seven non-contributing buildings with architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries, including examples of Colonial, Greek Revival, and Federal architecture.

North Cove Historic District

It includes Colonial, Federal, and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture.

Oldwick, New Jersey

It has a mixture of Victorian, Federal, New England and Georgian style homes, and is protected by historic legislation.

Strawbery Banke

It features more than 40 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian, and Federal style architectures.

Washington Governor's Mansion

Four Duncan Phyfe pieces: Two Pembroke tables, a Federal sofa with deeply incised rail and eagle feet, and a Federal piano.

Waxahachie Global High School

The architectural aspects of Global's exterior have been richly debated by students and staff alike, and it has been concluded that the building is primarily Federal and Art Deco style, with trace elements of Gothic, Greek Revival and Split Level stylings.

Yellow Springs Historic District

Today, many of Yellow Springs' buildings are examples of the Federal or Greek Revival styles, although vernacular buildings, such as its plentiful I-houses, are numerous.


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