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unusual facts about Romanesque Revival



Bandholm Church

It was built in 1874 by Henrik Steffens Sibbern to a cruciform plan in the Romanesque Revival style.

Carson City Civic Auditorium

It was deemed significant as a depression era works project and also "as a rare example of a monumentally-scaled Romanesque Revival-styled building in Nevada".

Church of the Redeemer, Bad Homburg

Finished in 1908, the building is outwardly of a heavy, romanesque revival appearance, while its interior is held in a neo-Byzantine style, with rich marble wall decorations and gold mosaics covering the domed ceiling, leading to the church sometimes being called 'Bad Homburg's Hagia Sophia'.

Clair Tisseur

Clair Tisseur (27 January 1827, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône – 30 September 1896, Nyons, Drôme), was a French architect whose best known work is Église du Bon-Pasteur, a prominent Romanesque Revival church in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon.

Goldbach, Bavaria

The sandstone Romanesque Revival church that stands today was built in 1894 and 1895 on the spot where once stood an older building that had become too small.

Murgenthal

The romanesque revival parish church was built in 1852-54 in Glashütten.

Musée Dobrée

Built in the immediate outskirts of the 15th century manor of John V, Duke of Brittany, the palais Dobrée was in the Romanesque Revival style dear to Viollet-le-Duc, although it was a joint work by the architects Simon, Boismen, Chenantais and Le Diberder, who were constantly troubled by their patron regarding it.

Polak and Sullivan

From a stylistic standpoint their output is extremely varied including at various times Romanesque Revival buildings, Gothic Revival buildings, Colonial buildings, Modern buildings and even a few buildings in International Style, which was rarely used for Roman Catholic churches.

Schnull-Rauch House

The Schnull-Rauch House, sometimes referred to as the Victorian Manor and now also branded as The Manor at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, is a National Register of Historic Places-designated Romanesque Revival historic home constructed in the early 20th century at 3050 North Meridian Street, in the Meridian-Kessler neighborhood north of downtown Indianapolis.

Solon Spencer Beman

Fashionable at the time, these styles included Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, and Châteauesque (sometimes called Francis I style after the French king from 1515-1547).

St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church

St. Boniface Church was an eclectic example of Romanesque Revival and Ruskinian Gothic architecture.

St. Michael's Church Complex

The church is a late 19th-century Romanesque Revival structure, 170 by 80 feet, with a steeple 180 feet high.

Střešovice

The major sights include Villa Müller by functionalist architect Adolf Loos (1930) and The Church of St Norbert in Romanesque Revival (1890-1891) style.

Wörth am Main

-Nikolaus-Kirche, built in Romanesque Revival style from the year 1898, with a cross altar, Crucifixion group and Passion image


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Hutton, Scottish Borders

The present Church, built in 1835 by Ignatius Bonomi, is an impressive Romanesque Revival edifice inspired by Norham Church (where Bonomi also worked).

J. C. Adams Stone Barn

It is the only Romanesque Revival stone barn in the United States located west of the Mississippi River.

New Kent Road

The 1888 red brick church behind Tavern Court is the former Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, a listed building designed by Charles Evans-Vaughan in mixed Queen Anne and Romanesque revival styles.

Oscar Cobb

Sioux City Municipal Auditorium, designed by architects James W. Martin and Oscar Cobb in Romanesque Revival style

William Tubby

The house that Tubby designed for Charles Millard Pratt at 241 Clinton Avenue (1893, located in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill Historic District) is one of the city’s finest examples of Romanesque revival architecture.