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	Egyptian Revival Architecture
		The ancient Egyptians adopted the scarab (dung beetle) as symbol of the sun god, Ra, because they were familiar with the sight of the beetle rolling dung on the ground, and this action suggests the invisible power that rolled the sun daily across the sky.
		Egyptian Revival style seemed most appropriately applied to building projects associated with eternity and the afterlife -- churches, prisons, cemeteries.
		Egyptian Revival's potential for exotic, mysterious theatricality lent itself well to movie-palace design of the 1920s.
	www.buffaloah.com /a/archsty/egypt/egypt.html (659 words)

	Encyclopedia: Egyptian Revival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Egyptian Revival is (primarily) an architectural style that references the visual motifs and imagery of Ancient Egypt.
		Although there is a long-standing tradition of Egyptian Revival art and architecture—the 1840s and 1850s saw a particular rebirth of the fad—in the Roaring Twenties the discovery of the treasure of King Tut's tomb by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922 lead to a particular "Egypt craze".
		The Egyptian revival of the 1920s is sometimes considered as part of the Art Deco decorative arts movement.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Egyptian-Revival (385 words)

	Egyptian Revival architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The third is the Egyptian Building of the Medical College of Virginia.
		The discovery of the treasure of King Tut's tomb by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922 led to a third revival.
		The Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles, USA, now home to the American Cinematheque, is an Egyptian Revival landmark from the era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egyptian_Revival (326 words)

	Omaha's Egyptian Revival Architecture
		This photo clearly shows that the architect was aware of the Egyptian trompe l'oeil effect of using reduced abacus blocks to give the impression that the architrave is hovering suspended over the flared capitals, so if he omits a cavetto cornice in the attic it cannot be from ignorance.
		The other Egyptian revival mausoleum, and a much finer example, is that of the Bostwick family, close to the Dietz monument.
		I find the Egyptian revival the most interesting of the revivals, first because it is so exotic, secondly because it is too ridiculous to be pretentious, and third because it is so rare, and a real treat to discover it.
	moses.creighton.edu /bucher/Interests%20pages/Omaha%20Houses/Egyptian_revival.htm (908 words)

	Architecture
		Egyptian Revival saw its heyday in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century from 1808 to about 1858, although headstone examples can be seen dating from later than this.
		Cemeteries throughout the country are adorned with Egyptian architecture, ranging from the massive Egyptian arch spanning the entrance of the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven
		Egyptian architecture was seen as most appropriate for cemeteries, Gothic for churches, and Classical for government buildings.
	www.uni.edu /connors/Architecture.htm (1351 words)

	Department of Cultural Affairs - This Was Nevada: Shades of Ancient Egypt Found In Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A modern expression of Egyptian Revival began in the late 18th Century with French and English exploration and documentation of Egyptian antiquities.
		It has not been uncommon for architectural styles to appear and disappear later in the West where current fashions were slower to manifest, so the late occurrence of these Egyptian Revival elements is not surprising.
		Indeed, Nevada is home to one of the nation's most recent monumental expressions of Egyptian Revival architecture, a structure dating to end of the 20th Century.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/dca/thiswas/thiswas09.htm (592 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Egyptian Revival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Egyptians were accustomed to bury alive in the dark, narrow and secluded cells of some of their vast and secure edifices, which at once served for prisons and for tombs, certain offenders against their laws.
		These unhappy victims, from the hour when they were immured, until the tedious period when death released them from their lingering misery, never beheld the light of day, never inhaled the fresh air of heaven, and never again beheld the face of man, or heard the consoling accents of his voice.
		Elsewhere, among the Egyptianized buildings still left, most are small in scale and two are decidedly quirky: the First Baptist Church of Essex, Connecticut, and the Whalers' Church of Sag Harbor, Long Island, both decidedly Protestant and conservative, yet clearly derived from Egyptian themes.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198201/the.egyptian.revival.htm (2547 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		The second Egyptian craze was sparked by the uncovering of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922.
		Fantastic architectural designs were accepted more readily there because of the specific influence of movie-making in Southern California, a lack of "old money" blue-blood families, a general 1920s atmosphere of "anything goes" and an upsurge in the construction of "period revival" homes and buildings.
		Therefore, Egyptian Revival's flat roofs and open courtyards full of exotic flowers and palm trees were more practical and natural for this area than almost any other area of America.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/92spring/revival.htm (5883 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		Egyptian revival designs have long been associated with tombs and eternity, such as the Egyptian style obelisk (at far left) in Greenwood Cemetery.
		A stucco Egyptian palace glows in the sun on Park Blvd. Built in 1926, the Egyptian Court Apartments originally had a garage on either end, until they were converted to shops.
		Grand columns, representing bundled papyrus, flank the entrance to the courtyard of the Egyptian Court apartments.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/92spring/revivalimages.htm (308 words)

	Welcome - Architecture Tours L.A.
		Long regarded as the city of the future, L.A. is home to some of the most original and innovative architecture in the United States and the world, as well as being home to virtually every conceivable historic style, reflecting the diversity and imagination of the people who live here.
		You'll see structures ranging in style from Egyptian Revival to Chateauesque and Tudor to sleek mid-Century modern to Post-Modern, all in the comfort of a deluxe van with leather bucket seats, strong air-conditioning and two sun roofs for maximum visibility.
		Architecture Tours L.A. is now a Registered Provider with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems of HSW units.
	www.architecturetoursla.com (302 words)

	Egyptian Build (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is considered to be the finest example of Egyptian Revival architecture in the United States.
		The building was restored in 1939 by the architects, Baskerville and Son, through the generosity of who gave $1000,000 toward the project in honor of his father Dr. Simon Baruch, an 1862 graduate of the medical College of Virginia.
		The architectural structure of the four major entrance-way columns of the Medical Sciences Building are a modern reflection of the impressive columns on the Egyptian Building.
	www.pmr.vcu.edu /misc/egyptian_history.html (357 words)

	American Architecture 1820-1890
		While American architecture can often be confusing mix of styles adapted from Greek, Roman, English, and Spanish influences, this guide will help provide a concise means to identify the major attributes of each style and period.
		Based on the ancient architecture of Greece, examples of the style can be found in courthouses, banks, and churches throughout the country.
		Reflecting a romantic interest in archeology and historic styles, the Exotic Revivals were primarily adapted from Egyptian and Moorish architecture.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/Architecture/19566 (318 words)

	Egyptian Revival Period Grave Markers, Obelisk, Pyramid, etc. Genealogy, History, Family History, American South.
		Egyptian Revival Period Grave Markers, Obelisk, Pyramid, etc. Genealogy, History, Family History, American South.
		Unfortunately, the Egyptian Revival Period style monuments encouraged some misinformed folk to claim that the Egyptian style markers were used by satanic, evil, anti-Christian, and/or Osiris worshipping heathens.
		Incidentally, true Egyptian Revival architecture in the south may be found at the Downtown Presbyterian Church (1849), 427 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, and at the Egyptian Building (built, 1845), 1223 E. Marshall St., Richmond, Virginia.
	www.tngenweb.org /darkside/egyptian.html (422 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although it was considered exotic to see such Egyptian revival architecture on the American cityscape prior to the Civil War, by the 1880s Victorian America acquired a taste not only for gingerbread lines and garish tracery fashioned in milled moldings or red sandstone but also a growing fondness for Egyptian architecture.
		The Egyptian influence on French Freemasonry of the Napoleonic era, obviously connected with the Emperor's Egyptian campaign, coincides with the development of the Scottish Rite in America, conceived in dual terms as a hybrid of British and continental Masonic innovations.
		It may represent to the viewer the raised platform upon which Osiris (Egyptian ruler of the underworld, with whom the dead person is symbolically linked) sits or, alternatively, the staircase may actually suggest a primordial return to the ascending place of creation.
	www.srmason-sj.org /web/temple-files/sphinxes.htm (2429 words)

	Sag Harbor Architecture
		Sag Harbor's architecture is also a study in 18th and 19th century Eastern Long Island history.
		The only temple front Greek Revival building in Sag Harbor, the museum is more severe in style with the embellished Corinthian columns and cornice crest of a lance and blubber spade design.
		A less austere example of Greek Revival architecture is the L'Hommedieu House (circa 1840), located on the south corner of Bayview and Main Streets.
	www.sagharborchamber.com /architecture.htm (793 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Egyptian
		Egyptian style belly dancing, music and rhythms of the Middle East as well as other world dance is learned.
		As PLO chieftains and the likes of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak defend their regime-controlled media's dissemination of constant calls for jihad against Israel and the US as an exercise of free speech, Iraq's leaders are admitting openly that these media operations are part and parcel of the terror arsenal.
		The dean consented, explaining that Moses was born into a family of Jews persecuted by Egyptians, was placed in wicker basket by his family and was sent down the River Nile, where an Egyptian family raised him as their own.
	collectibles.surfwax.com /files/Egyptian_Collectibles.html (3839 words)

	Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture -- Contributors (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Department of Architecture, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
		Department of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
		Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, China.
	www.routledge-ny.com /ref/architecture/contributors.html (5507 words)

	Annotated Bibliography for Egyptomania - General
		Brief notice of an Egyptian exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to counter Egyptian revival art discussed elsewhere in the issue (here: Carrott 1966; Gerdts 1966; Johnson 1966).
		A broad view of the Egyptian Revival, including in religious beliefs and alchemy, art during the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Neoclassical movement, as well as decorative arts and painting.
		Egyptian Revival in Bohemia: orientalism and Egyptomania in Czech lands.
	www.egyptomania.org /bib/bibliogen.html (1522 words)

	AMERICAN GREEK REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE
		Dedicated to Harry Borchers, my Architecture History Professor at Ohio State University- he breathed life into history and made us experience it as though we were there in flesh.
		Later, sons of soldiers from Washington's army claimed the land George Washington had promised n the Western Reserve of Ohio that was set aside for them in payment for their services in the Revolutionary War.
		It might be noted that those farmers carried their design sensitivities to all sides of their houses, and even to the smallest hog shed or well house.
	www.archdirect.com /american_greek_revival_architecture.htm (614 words)

	architecture styles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Architectural types and styles found in the online encyclopedia of architecture, documenting more than 750 buildings from around the world and across history with photos, text, and live 3D models.
		The most popular style of architecture prior to the Victorian era was the Greek...
		A concise description of the diverse temple architectural styles seen in Indian temples, styles that have been in existence for over a millennium.
	www.fashion-galaxy.com /articles/3/architecture-styles.html (543 words)

	Historical Building Tour (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dominant architectural elements on both the exterior and the interior include two large sun symbol reliefs, 16 Egyptian heads and 9 murals.
		It is one of only six Second Egyptian Revival theatres lefct in the U.S. During the Depression the theatre manager and seven local businessmen created the promotional "Bank Night" where gold, groceries and cash give-a-ways were held for moviegoers.
		The construction and completion of St. Michael's was a bringing together in a common bond of the many Catholic families that had immigrated from Ireland, Poland, Russia and Catholic Germany to escape poverty, intolerable political situations or were lured to Colorado by gold and a better life.
	www.deltacolorado.org /histtour1.html (453 words)

	Egyptian Revival Architecture in America
		The Egytian Revival architecture style has been rarely used in the United States, but the examples that have and do exist often exhibit interesting elements and imaginative uses of materials.
		Interest in the style was probably fueled by Napolean's invasion and occupation of Egypt in the late 1700's and early 1800's, and the subsequent attention paid to Egypt's antiquities.
		This Egyptian Revival style tankhouse was featured in an early 1900's design book.
	www.vintagedesigns.com /architecture/egypt/sem/index.htm (663 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Pei, I. M. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After travels with his father, he went to the USA in 1935 to study architecture.
		Initially repelled by the Beaux-Arts system, he became reconciled to its strong emphasis on geometry and readable imagery under Dean William Emerson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1940.
		Pei stayed in Cambridge, working for different architects, and married Eileen Loo, a landscape architecture student at Harvard University, through whom he met Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, who were teaching there.
	www.artnet.com /library/06/0660/T066029.asp (324 words)

	Downtown Presbyterian Church - Religion - Nashville, TN, 37219-2398 - Citysearch
		This national landmark is notable for its exotic Egyptian Revival architecture.
		An outstanding example of Egyptian Revival architecture, this national landmark was built in 1851 by William Strickland, the architect who designed the Tennessee State Capitol.
		The Egyptian Revival style became popular in the first half of the 19th century, after Napoleon's conquests.
	nashville.citysearch.com /profile/9342191 (263 words)

	Looking up at history: Renovation gives new life to Egyptian motifs in Downtown Presbyterian Church's ceiling - ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Egyptian Revival-style Downtown Presbyterian Church, which stands at the corner of Church Street and Fifth Avenue, may be among the city's oldest, but many would say it's also among the city's most important.
		When it was dedicated on Easter Sunday in 1851, the brick church had clear glass windows, walls painted in two shades of gray, box pews and a flat ceiling, which produced a bad echo according to Jim Hoobler, a respected historian, church elder and chairman of the restoration committee.
		Later, in the 1880s, the church was decorated in the colorful Egyptian Revival style.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/01/04/04286532.shtml?Element_ID=4286532 (1192 words)

	Table of contents for The Egyptian revival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Further Manifestations with Egyptian Connotations in Europe from the Renaissance to the Beginning of the Eighteenth-Century.
		The Egyptian Revival from the Time of Piranesi until the Napoleonic Campaigns in Egypt 6.
		Aspects of the Egyptian Revival in the Later Part of the Nineteenth-Century 10.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip054/2004028914.html (142 words)

	Pyramids on 125th Street: Hill on the Egyptian Revival
		It was pure serendipity.” Hill delivered a lecture on Thursday at Craig Auditorium Thursday on the Egyptian influence on the Harlem Renaissance.
		The neglect of Egyptian influence on the Harlem Renaissance was the crux of Hill’s argument.
		Locke, who many would hail as one of the pioneers of the Harlem Renaissance, dismissed Egyptian cultural influences despite his visit to Luxor and its evident impact on the 1920s cultural movement.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2004/2/27/arts/article3.html (392 words)

	Lawrence Biemiller's Stories from 'The Chronicle': The Sphinx
		According to a 1974 New Hampshire historic-buildings survey, the temple was designed by William M. Butterfield and constructed in 1903.
		That was more than 50 years after Egyptian-revival architecture enjoyed a period of modest popularity among designers of cemeteries and prisons, and it was 20 years before movie-palace architects affected their own Egyptian phase, gaudier and less historically accurate than the first.
		Rolled moldings at its corners imitate the papyrus stalks that ancient Egyptians used to brace the mud-brick walls of their houses.
	www.iceandcoal.org /nfa/sphinx.html (962 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Egyptian Revival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Neo-classical style of architectural and interior design; as Egyptomania or Egyptiennerie it reached its peak during the late 18th century and early 19th.
		Indeed, since its earliest manifestations occurred in the later Roman Empire, the Revival itself can be seen as one in a series of sporadic waves of European taste in art and design (often linked to archaeological inquiry), acting as an exotic foil to the Classical tradition with which this taste was and remains closely involved.
		On a broader plane of inquiry, the study of Egyptian art and architecture has continued to promote a keen awareness of abstraction in design and a decorative vocabulary of great sophistication.
	www.artnet.com /library/02/0256/T025629.ASP (255 words)

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