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5 unusual facts about Tuscan order


National Harbor of Refuge and Delaware Breakwater Harbor Historic District

The principal facade faces the harbor with an enclosed porch supported by paired Tuscan columns.

Paulding County Carnegie Library

The design of the interior includes elements such as marble in the vestibule, oak panels and decorations in the reading rooms, fireplaces, and Tuscan pilasters.

Roman temple of Alcántara

The entrance is flanked by two Tuscan columns and accessed by an exterior staircase, covered with a gabled roof made of slabs of stone, with a pediment with trim at the edges and a smooth tympanum without decoration.

St. Paul's, Deptford

The most unusual feature of the building is the cylindrical tower with a steeple, around which is wrapped a semi-circular portico of four giant Tuscan columns; colossal pilasters articulate the body of the church facades.The steeple embedded in the plane of the church wall echoes the apse at the east end.

Tuscan order

Giorgio Vasari made a valid argument for this claim by reference to il Cronaca's graduated rustication on the facade of Palazzo Strozzi, Florence.



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