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Branford Center, Connecticut

Of buildings designed by professional architects, the most significant is the "classically inspired, monumental 1893 James Blackstone Memorial Library", designed by Solon Spencer Beman of Chicago.

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).

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