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	Georgian architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georgian architecture is the name given in English-speaking countries to the classic architectural styles current between about 1720 and 1840, named after the four British monarchs named George.
		Georgian architecture is characterised by its sense of proportion and balance; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine for example, the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.
		In Canada the United Empire Loyalists embraced Georgian architecture as a sign of their fealty to Britain, and the Georgian style was dominant in that country for most of the first half of the 19th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgian_architecture (495 words)

	Ontario Architecture Styles Page
		Georgian architecture in Britain and in Canada was a modification of the Renaissance
		Georgian features of this simple stone house in Maitland include sash windows, symmetrical five bays, half-round fanlight over the door, and a gable roof with two chimneys.
		This could be a later Georgian house judging from the sash windows that are six-over six meaning that the glass panes are larger than in earlier houses.
	www.ontarioarchitecture.com /georgian.htm (1087 words)

	Architecture
		In fact, the range of our architecture is broad, of many styles and periods, eclectic, and as several owners lived in the same house, maintained and "updated" it, many changes over the years on a given house have enhanced the appearance of the house and maintained the integrity of the original style or did not.
		Georgian houses might have had no paint at all, or, if they were clapboard, might have been cheery tones of blue, green, salmon, or yellow.
		On Georgian houses the molding surrounds and protects the top of the windows which are often 12/12 on the first floor and 8/12 on the second with thick muntins and imported glass.
	www.hollis.nh.us /windowsonhollispast/architecture/houses.html (8747 words)

	Salem Massachusetts Architecture.
		This Georgian Colonial house was built by Captain John Crowninshield before his family rose to prominence and was home to four generations of Crowninshields up to 1832.
		This Georgian Colonial house was built by Richard Derby for his son, Elias Hasket Derby (America's first millioniare), and new wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield.
		This Georgian dwelling was designed by Samuel McIntire and built as a residence for Elias Hasket Derby, but the building was left unfinished when Derby purchased another residence in 1782.
	www.salemweb.com /guide/arch/houses.shtml (576 words)

	Georgian architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Among the first architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell and the engravings in Vitruvius Britannicus, Lord Burlington and his protegé William Kent, and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who passed his career in England.
		Georgian architecture was disseminated as much through the medium of engravings as it was through the direct experiences of the apprenticeship system.
		After about 1840, a wider repertory of design alternatives, including Gothic revival, enlarged the repertory, and the Georgian conventions were slowly abandoned, in a welter of.
	www.keizer.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Georgian_architecture (294 words)

	Georgia:Culture
		Georgian scholars generally agree that the famous cupola structures that dominate Georgian ecclesiastic architecture can be traced to domestic dwellings with circular floor plans that date as far back as the fourth to third millennium BC.
		Georgian literature over the next six centuries was exclusively religious in character, with writers primarily involved with translating biblical and scriptural texts into Georgian.
		Georgian church singing of the 7th century was already liberated from foreign influence.
	www.cac-biodiversity.org /geo/geo_culture.htm (3681 words)

	New England's Georgian (Palladian) Architecture
		What they saw in architectural books of the time, and on their trading trips to London was the updated classicism of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, called Palladian style after Andreas Palladio (1508-1580), an Italian architect who "updated" the classical proportions and ornaments of ancient Roman architecture.
		The updated Roman classicism of Georgian style was also used in buildings of brick and stone, as at Harvard University in Cambridge MA, which is a riot of Georgian red brick, classical trim, and gold-topped cupolas.
		Georgian houses were built up to the time of the American Revolution, and in beautiful Litchfield CT until the end of the 1700's.
	www.newenglandtravelplanner.com /architecture/georgian.html (361 words)

	Antique American Architecture- Georgian style
		New England Georgian style is adapted to its immediate surroundings and climate as well as the puritan influence, which resulted in an less ornamentation and a smaller scale than Georgian style in other colonies.
		During the late 1800's Georgian style was revived and builders modified the style to accommodate the more modern lifestyle and taste of the new century.
		Now we have examples of original Georgian and Georgian "revival" homes and buildings as well to consider, With time and practice you will be able to spot the original from the revival.
	www.realviews.com /homes/georg.html (814 words)

	Architecture - The Georgian In America
		HERE are certain basic forms of architectural decoration that seem spontaneous in all primitive people at certain stages of their development, and so in the pre-Aryan architecture of America these forms are found to be almost identical with those discovered on other continents.
		The architecture of these various localities is colored to a greater or less degree by the nationality, the caste, and the individual characteristics of the settlers; but it has, in a general way, a blood relationship that is easily discernible.
		As architecture has from the earliest times expressed the desires of the people, and has honestly told the story of their necessities and their luxuries in a language that is universal and can be read by any one who will master its delicacies and its slang, so it is to-day.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles10/architecture-15.shtml (3559 words)

	Victorian architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era.
		As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign of Victoria after whom it is named.
		Greek Revival architecture stretches from the later part of the Colonial era into the beginnings of the Victorian era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victorian_architecture (202 words)

	Georgian architecture on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE [Georgian architecture] It includes several trends in English architecture that were predominant during the reigns (1714-1830) of George I, George II, George III, and George IV.
		Property: Classical Georgian meets modern living in Bath; Development is tricky to preserve in the historic architecture of Bath, says PENNY JACKSON.
		But hidden among the sea of Victorian and Georgian knock-offs, among the gabled roofs and ionic columns, is a clutch of modern masterpieces.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/georgn-ar.asp (1338 words)

	Georgian Architecture
		Georgian architecture was the style of the 18th century, especially from the reign of King George I who ascended the throne in 1711, until the American Revolution (King George III).
		The Georgian style was relatively homogeneous from Maine through the southern states.
		From Fiske Kimbal, Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and the Early Republic, 1922.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/georgian.html (104 words)

	Georgian architecture
		It includes several trends in English architecture that were predominant during the reigns (1714–1830) of George I, George II, George III, and George IV.
		architecture: The Evolution of Styles in the Christian Era - The Evolution of Styles in the Christian Era The Romans and the early Christians also used the...
		English art and architecture: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries During the 18th cent.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0820579.html (420 words)

	Style
		In the middle of the first millennium BC the western Georgian tribes, the Megrels and the Chan, formed a state, the kingdom of Colchis.
		We have many examples of ecclesiastical architecture, and a relatively large number of fortification structures; but by contrast, examples of secular architecture have survived only rarely and as a rule the quality of preservation is poor.
		It is one of the biggest Georgian churches with elaborate decoration and refined proportions.
	www.opentext.org.ge /art/treasure/archit~1.htm (4374 words)

	Georgian Architecture in England
		Although the reign of George III extended into the 19th century, and George IV did not die until 1830, the style(s) of architecture most commonly associated with the Georgian England is at its most strongly identifiable in the period 1730-1800.
		These country house estates were dotted with copies of classical temples and other allegorical architectural elements such as grottoes, bridges, and that group of oddments we call "follies".
		Georgian classicism was most heavily influence by Palladianism, a philosophy of design based on the writings and work of Andreas Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century who tried to recreate the style and proportions of the buildings of ancient Rome.
	www.britainexpress.com /architecture/georgian.htm (1132 words)

	Georgian treasures still line these streets \| csmonitor.com
		In spite of their efforts, many fine Georgian structures were demolished in the 1960s and replaced by new, modern, but sadly characterless buildings that Dubliners hoped would give them a more up-to-date image.
		Georgian architecture -known for its understated elegance - began to become popular during the reign of King George I, who ascended the throne of England in 1711.
		But generally, Georgian architecture is considered the style of the 18th century.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0226/p20s01-altr.htm (1952 words)

	American Architecture: The Georgian Style
		In the southern colonial states, Georgian homes were most often made of brick, while in the north, wood homes prevailed.
		Georgian architecture is sometimes confused with the following Federal period of American architecture, but only on the outside.
		The birthplace of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is a wonderful example of Georgian architecture.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/homeworks/43086 (354 words)

	Georgian Architecture of the 18th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All of this heralded the adoption of the Early Georgian style of architecture for houses of modern size.
		The chimneys of the northern Early Georgian houses therefore usually center on the ridge at a distance of several feet in from the gables.
		In many of these Early Georgian houses, the kitchen was regulated to an ell, leaving one of the rear rooms usable as a dining room.
	web.bryant.edu /~ehu/h364proj/sprg_98/dorsi/18th.htm (641 words)

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		Dow uses colonial houses as examples of his fourth and fifth dimensions in architecture, which involve the character and history of a building; he believes the increasing popularity of colonial houses is due to these characteristics.
		An architectural history of the Piscataqua region with over three-hundred photographs and measured drawings of 17th- and 18th-century buildings, by a prominent architect of the 1930s; also includes a detailed historical introduction by William Lawrence Bottomley, one of the leading Colonial Revival architects of the twentieth century.
		Waterman was one of the foremost historians of colonial architecture in the early twentieth century and a leading figure in the early preservation movement.
	hatbox.lib.virginia.edu /servlet/SaxonServlet?source=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/colonial/texts/ColRevbib.xml&style=http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/colonial/www/biblio.xsl&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&ref=ColRevBii (9754 words)

	Georgian style -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		the various styles in the architecture, interior design, and decorative arts of Britain during the reigns of the first four members of the house of Hanover, between the accession of George I in 1714 and the death of George IV in 1830.
		There was such diversification and oscillation in artistic style during this period that it is perhaps more accurate to speak of “Georgian...
		The campus, which features Georgian-style architecture, is directly on the border between the states of Vermont and New York.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036524 (888 words)

	Barbados Architecture And Interior Design
		For this tiny island is an architectural delight of old and new, of elegance and simplicity, of history and tradition preserved and repeated through the years.
		This is a land of Jacobean and Georgian buildings built with coral and ships ballast, of Victorian homes and wooden chattel houses trimmed in gingerbread fretwork, of sophisticated hotels and their manicured lawns amid the open spaces of the golf courses, the cricket pitches, the polo field and the Garrison Savanna.
		These Georgian buildings with their grand Palladian staircases, majestic arcades and pediments have influenced all Barbadian architecture, from the great plantations, to the simple Chattel House.
	barbados.org /architec.htm (1020 words)

	Georgian-style Architecture
		The "half Georgian" consisted of one "side" of a full Georgian, popular for row houses on urban lots (see Photo 7 above).
		Georgian style used from Maine to Virginia in British colonies.
		Hazardville, CT. "British" Georgian, because of the hipped roof.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~twp/architecture/georgian (491 words)

	Jamaica : In Depth : Architecture \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the island style began with an allegiance to Georgian models, concessions were made to the heat, humidity, bugs, hurricanes, and earthquakes of the tropics.
		Jamaican vernacular architectural style was developed by tenant farms and indentured servants, many from Scotland, and by the children of freed enslaved persons.
		Known for the pleasing proportions of their inner spaces, the buildings continue to surprise contemporary architectural critics by their appropriate placement and convenient interior traffic patterns.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/jamaica/0093020062.html (429 words)

	Georgian architecture at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The styles fall within the broad categories of Neo-Palladian, with its whimsical alternatives, Gothick and Chinoiserie that were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo styles, and the range of Neo-Classical modes associated with British architects Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland and Sir John Soane.
		In the American colonies, the Neo-Palladian style is associated with 'Colonial Georgian' and the Neo-Classical styles broadly with 'Federal' building.
		After ca 1840 a wider repertory of design alternatives, including Gothic Revival, enlarged the repertory, and the Georgian conventions were slowly abandoned.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Georgian_architecture.html (220 words)

	Architecture: Georgian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Modeled after the more elaborate homes of England, the Georgian style dominated the British colonies in the 1700s.
		Most surviving Georgians sport side-gabled roofs, are two to three stories high, and are constructed in brick.
		Georgian homes almost always feature an orderly row of five windows across the second story.
	www.realtor.org /rmomag.nsf/pages/arch11 (121 words)

	Irish Georgian Society - Ireland's Architectural Heritage Society
		The Irish Georgian Society is Ireland's Architectural Heritage Society.
		The Society aims to encourage an interest in and to promote the conservation of distinguished examples of architecture and the allied arts of all periods in Ireland.
		The Irish Georgian Society was founded in 1958 by the Hon.
	www.irish-architecture.com /igs (156 words)

	Architect - Georgian Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Georgian luxury in the heart of the city.
		Virginia, and son of Protestant missionaries on the church architecture of the late...
		78.04.03: The Architecture of New England and the Southern...
	www.architectconnection.com /georgianarchitecture (814 words)

	Architecture Styles
		The term "Romanesque" was first applied by critics in the early nineteenth century to describe the architecture of the later eleventh and the twelfth centuries, because certain architectural elements, principally the round arch, resembled those of ancient Roman architecture.
		Hunt (portrait) was one of many American architects influenced by a mid-19th-century European revival of late-medieval rustic country architecture, most notably the gingerbread-ornamented chalets of the Alps and the half-timbered cottages of Normandy and Tudor England.
		He was exposed to Europe's architecture while studying at the most prestigious school of architecture in the Western world, L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris, the first American to do so.
	ah.phpwebhosting.com /a/archsty/COMPARE.html (5878 words)

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