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18 unusual facts about Romanesque Revival architecture


Bandholm

Built of red brick in the Romanesque Revival style, it consists of a chancel, a nave and a tower with a conical spire.

Bandholm Church

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

Bowery Savings Bank

It was designed by York and Sawyer in Italian Romanesque Revival style, with William Louis Ayres as the partner in charge.

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".

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.

Compton Potters' Arts Guild

The resultant Romanesque/Gothic revival exterior of the Watts Mortuary Chapel aroused such interest, that before work on the polychrome interior had started, Watts had set-up permanent Arts and Crafts communities in both Compton and her home-town of Aldourie, Scotland.

Delevan Baptist Church

It was built in 1883, and is a one-story, three bay by six bay, Victorian Romanesque style brick church.

Franz J. Berlenbach, Jr.

Berlenbach Jr. became involved in designing Roman Catholic churches, specializing in the Romanesque style although also created designs influenced by Italian Renaissance later on.

G. H. Mumm

Begun in 1965, the Foujita chapel was entirely designed by Foujita in the romanesque style, who drew the plans and designed the ironwork, stained glass and sculptures.

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.

Houston Fire Museum

Designed in the Romanesque style by Olle J. Lorehn, the two-story brick building was completed on January 1899 and features rusticated stone details, a five bay front with Central arched entry flanked by two apparatus bay entries and unique parapet details.

Murgenthal

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

Romanesque

Romanesque Revival architecture, an architectural style which started in the late 19th century, inspired by the original Romanesque architecture

Shareholder Meeting

Two taxi cabs along with Michael's limo, using New York plates, were shot in front of a California intersection with a Roman Revival style building in the background for a New York effect.

SoWa

The Romanesque and Gothic Revival structure was the world’s largest electrical power station at the time and later became a trolley barn.

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


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'.

Fort Street Union Depot

It was built in the Romanesque architectural style, to the designs of James Stewart, an architect in the style of Henry Hobson Richardson.

Immanuel Church, Copenhagen

The church is built in large red brick of the type in Denmark known as Munkesten in a Romanesque Revival style inspired by Italian churches in Ravenna and Sienna.

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.

Ross House Association

It is an example of a transitional and unusual design that takes from the American Romanesque style developed by Henry Hobson Richardson in America.

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.