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unusual facts about Federal style



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.

Barnesville Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot

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

Col. Ira C. Copley Mansion

Designed by noted architect Jarvis Hunt, the building was completed in 1917 in a blend of Classical Revival and Federal Style trends.

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.

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.

Josiah Hasbrouck

Locust Lawn, his Federal style-home during his last years, is a Registered Historic Place, located along NY 32 in what is today the town of Gardiner, just south of New Paltz.

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".

Williams–DuBois House

The Federal style was in ascendance, and builders were often asked to copy the similar Adamesque mode popular in Britain for the preceding half-century.


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Clover Forest Plantation

Clover Forest Plantation, located in Goochland, Virginia between Richmond and Charlottesville, is an authentically restored James River estate consisting of terraced landscaped grounds, a private lake, and a Federal-style mansion with portions dating back to pre-revolutionary America.

Hendrick I. Lott House

Although Hendrick added Federal-style dormer windows, the gambrel roof with graceful spring eaves is typical of the Dutch Colonial architectureal style.

John Y. Hill

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

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

Also on the museum's campus is the stone Deshon-Allyn House, a Federal style home built in 1829 by Daniel Deshon, sold to Lyman Allyn, and occupied by various members of the Allyn family, including Harriet.

Strawbery Banke

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

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.