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unusual facts about Renaissance Revival



Emery Grover Building

Built in 1898 in the Italian Renaissance Revival architectural style from a design by Whitman & Hood, the symmetrical tan brick building features an upper arcade of six Georgian Revival windows, an arched center entrance stoop flanked by multi-paned Diocletian windows, arched wings, and a curved pediment dormer crown sporting the Needham Public Schools seal.

Virginia Robinson Gardens

The Renaissance Revival Pool Pavilion was built in 1924 and is modeled after the Villa Pisani in the Tuscan region of Italy.


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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.

Edward Walters

Free Trade Hall (1855), in Peter Street, Italian Renaissance Revival style.