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unusual facts about Greek Revival



Adam Buck

A major influence on Regency culture (producing plates of contemporary costume as well as genre pictures of family and classical scenes and illustrations for Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey), he was himself much influenced by the Greek Revival (the furniture, vases - which he collected -, sculptures, costumes and even hairstyles in his works are all ancient Greek).

Appling, Georgia

In 1855, the Courthouse in Appling received a major overhaul, and after the remodeling was complete in 1856, the building was in more or less its present form, a vernacular structure with Greek Revival and Italianate influences.

Astor Place Theatre

Designed in Greek Revival style and fronted by imposing marble columns, the buildings served as residences for the Astor and Vanderbilt families, and are among the oldest structures in the city.

Basilica of St. Louis, King of France

Built in Greek Revival style, the church is noted for its marble altars, a painting of Saint Louis venerating the Crown of Thorns given by Louis XVIII, King of France and Navarre, and an accurate copy of the painting of the Crucifixion by Diego Velázquez installed in the church in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Champlin Architecture

At the turn of the 20th Century, Harry Hake designed buildings such as the Art Deco Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building, the English Renaissance Queen City Club, and the Greek Revival Western Southern Life Insurance Co. Headquarters.

Connecticut Western Reserve

The settlers in northern Ohio repeated the style of structures and development of towns from what they were familiar with in New England: many buildings in the new settlements were designed in the Georgian, Federal and Greek Revival styles.

Copperopolis Armory

The brick Greek Revival building was constructed in 1864 to house the Union Guard of Copperopolis, the town's regiment of the Union Army.

Corsley

Corsley House was built for the Barton family in 1814, designed by the Bath architect John Pinch the elder as a Greek revival mansion around a previous house.

Glastonbury – Rocky Hill Ferry Historic District

The historic district encompasses farmscapes of the Great Meadows in South Glastonbury that preserve 17th-century land use patterns and Colonial and Greek Revival farmhouses, as well as the homes of shipbuilders and merchant traders near the two landings, including several examples of Colonial and Italianate architecture.

Groesbeckville, Albany, New York

The most distinctive styles are local variations of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture.

Hartfield

Built in 1792, it was the first work of the architect Benjamin Latrobe, who was also responsible for the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. It was one of the first houses in England built in the Greek Revival style.

John Marlor

Stovall-Conn-Gardner House, "13 Columns", a two story clapboard structure with Greek Revival elements; the thirteen columns are believed to represent the 13 colonies united during the American Revolution.

Lonsdale, Rhode Island

The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and features historic buildings including Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Greek Revival buildings and Late Victorian architecture.

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 Shore, Staten Island

Historic buildings such as the first YMCA circa 1869; Tompkins Department Store circa 1880; The DeGroot House circa 1810; the Captain Nevielle House circa 1750; and the Greek Revival buildings at Sailor's Snug Harbor still stand along the street today.

Tremont Theatre, Boston

Architect Isaiah Rogers designed the original Theatre structure in 1827 in the Greek Revival style.

Waits Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery

It is a Greek Revival–style structure built in 1853 of white pine from Windham, Pennsylvania.

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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60 Wall Street

The tower was designed by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo & Associates to fit its surroundings with a postmodern, Greek-revival, and neoclassical look to emphasize both height and size.

Ammi B. Young

His first monumental work was the Second Vermont State House, a cruciform Greek Revival structure built between 1833 and 1838, which combined a Doric portico modeled on the Temple of Theseus in Athens, with a low saucer dome inspired by the Pantheon in Rome.

Benjamin F. Church

He helped construct one of the city's first two big hotels, and built a Greek Revival temple-style house for his family that today is a public museum in Estabrook Park, Shorewood, Wisconsin.

Chick House

The utilitarian design of the Chick House is accented by simple decorative touches in the Greek Revival style.

Edward Hornblower House and Barn

The house was remodeled by financier Edward T. Hornblower, of the Boston brokerage firm Hornblower & Page (later Hornblower & Weeks) to add Renaissance Revival elements to an earlier Greek Revival structure.

Historic houses in Virginia

1812, Rockingham County - early Greek-Revival manor house, former home of Willis Sharpe Kilmer

Joseph Bromfield

The use of the Greek revival style is comparatively rare and Pevsner and Lang point out that the earliest example of it is James "Athenian" Stuart’s Doric temple at Hagley Park.

Kerby

Kerby House, a historic Greek Revival plantation house and historic district in Prairieville, Alabama

Neoclassical architecture

Although several European cities - notably St Petersburg, Athens, Berlin and Munich - were transformed into veritable museums of Greek revival architecture, the Greek revival in France was never popular with either the State or the public.

Old Greene County Courthouse

Architect Clay Lancaster proposed that it may be the last Greek Revival public building to be built in Alabama.

Robert William Roper House

It was acquired in 1968 by its present owner, Richard Jenrette, who completed in the early 1980s what Jonathan H. Poston calls "one of America's most notable restorations of a Greek Revival house."

Samuel Daukes

The Park Estate, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: layout of estate and zoological gardens for Thomas Billings, 1833–34; Daukes purchased the estate in 1839 and began to design villas for erection on a speculative basis, mostly Greek Revival but including Tudor Lodge (dem. c.1966) and perhaps Cornerways, c.1865, Italianate

St. Charles Historic District

on the 100, 200, and 300 blocks of N. Main St. These include Greek Revival, Italianate, and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture including work by architects Albert B. Groves and Frank & Adolph Haverkamp.

Thomas H. Hughes House

Thomas Hughes' house was built in the nineteenth century in a Greek Revival style.