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4 unusual facts about Ionic order


Birthplace of Alexander VI

From the original house where was born the Pope Alexander VI it's preserved the façade, with wide dovelaje door and inside a flattened arch of ionic columns.

Ictinus

That temple was Doric on the exterior, Ionic on the interior, and incorporated a Corinthian column, the earliest known, at the center rear of the cella.

Lebanon, Indiana

The county courthouse of Lebanon is notable for its single-piece vertical Ionic order limestone columns.

Liber

Vitruvius recommends that Liber's temples follow an Ionic Greek model, as a "just measure between the severe manner of the Doric and the tenderness of the Corinthian," respectful of the deity's part-feminine characteristics.


Mexico Academy and Central School

The entry is distinguished by a two story, five bay portico supported by six Ionic columns and crowned by a Chippendale patterned balustrade.

St Peter's Church, Eaton Square

St. Peter's was designed in a classical style by the architect Henry Hakewill, and featured a six-columned Ionic portico and a clock tower.


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Charles Gray Round

Round inherited from his father (also Charles) a great deal of land in Colchester, including Birch Hall, which he rebuilt 1843-8 as "a handsome mansion in the plain Ionic order".