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	Old-House Journal
		From the 1820s until the Civil War, Greek Revival was a one-style-fits-all building design choice of rich and poor, in town and country, North and South, from the Atlantic Ocean to the new Midwest and around the Cape to California.
		The most familiar characteristic of the Greek Revival roofline, however, was a deep frieze, often undecorated except perhaps for a row of the distinctive Greek triglyph and metope ornament.
		The Greek Revival was, as its early proponents claimed, America's first truly national style, and it dominated the era of Manifest Destiny.
	www.oldhousejournal.com /magazine/2003/february/greek_revival.shtml (0 words)

	Greek revival - Encyclopedia.com
		Greek Revival upheld the form of Royal Ascot's Norfolk...
		Architecture: Modern tragedy of a Greek Revival: The Royal High School in Edinburgh, a Neo-Classical masterpiece, is threatened with redevelopment.
		The Greek Revival masterpiece of the 1820s, which was designed...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Greekrev.html (0 words)

	Neo-Classical Style - MSN Encarta
		Neo-Classical artists at first sought to replace the sensuality and what they viewed as the triviality of the Rococo style with a style that was logical, solemn in tone, and moralizing in character.
		The Greek Revival was modified by the Regency style, notable architectural examples of which are the façades for Regent Street, in London designed by John Nash and begun in 1812 and his Royal Pavilion in Brighton (1815-1823).
		The Greek revival style, based on 5th-century bc Greek temples and inspired by the Elgin Marbles, flourished during the first half of the 19th century in the United States.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573932/Neo-Classical_Style.html (0 words)

	::Antique Homes Magazine::
		Greek Revival forms are derived from the ruins of ancient Greek temples.
		Greek Revival detailing can be found on other house forms as well, such as the Cape Cod or traditional two story, five bay design so frequently associated with Georgian style.
		Greek Revivals should be painted white or off-white uniformly, to resemble the marble of the originals.
	www.antiquehomesmagazine.com /style_guide/greek_revival.html (656 words)

	Greek Revival - ninemsn Encarta
		Greek Revival, an architectural style incorporating Greek forms and modes, that superseded the English look of late Colonial Georgian architecture in America.
		Until the Greek Revival style took hold, American architecture was overwhelmingly influenced by the work of the English architect Sir Christopher Wren, who designed innovative buildings in a simplified Baroque style during the 17th century.
		The Greek Revival style was in vogue during the first half of the 19th century.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578360/Greek_Revival.html (86 words)

	Chapter III. Glory
		But we must recall that the Greek Revival reaching Syracuse was an already coordinated style several years old and was used locally, from the inception of the Revival spirit, in its basically completed form.
		In common with plans of the period, the interiors of the Greek Revival were comparatively static, with similiar details, styles and colors being consistently utilized until the introduction of the Victorian era.
		As a whole, Greek Revival interiors no better typified than by those still intact in the great Leavenworth Mansion (See page 148), were luxurious and gay, effective and decidedly agreeable to formal living in the grand manner.
	library.syr.edu /digital/collections/g/GreekRevivalInSyracuse/chapter3.htm (2409 words)

	Antique American Archetecture-Greek Revival Style
		The Greek War of Independence from the Turks recalled the American Revolution and the architectural discoveries of the period sparked an interest in classical architecture.
		The model for Greek Revival architecture was the ancient Greek temple, in which a series of columns supported by a horizontal superstructure called an entablature, of triangular pediment.
		The most enduring legacy of the Greek Revival style is the gable-front 19th century farmhouse, often ornamented by only a flat pilaster column doorway or corners.
	www.realviews.com /homes/cohgr.html (474 words)

	REALTOR.com: Inspired by Greek Temples
		An important and enduring legacy of the Greek Revival to American domestic architecture is the front-gabled house.
		Greek Revival is best exemplified by the stately Southern plantation mansions with their ranks of imposing columns, a style that is often confused with Southern Colonial.
		When the Greek Revival took hold in America around the year 1815, the entire culture that welcomed it had been classically oriented for more than two centuries.
	www.realtor.com /Basics/AllAbout/TypesStyles/Articles/Greek.asp (343 words)

	Greek Revival House plans - Design Evolutions Inc., GA
		The Greek revival style is one the three romantic styles that came about in the 19th century.
		Greek Revival house plans were a dominate style of architecture in America between the 1830's and 1860's.
		Greek revival house plans are sometimes referred to as southern colonial house plans.
	www.designevolutions.com /architecturalstyles/greekrevivalhouseplans.html (267 words)

	Greek Revival - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Greek Revival - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Greek Revival, an architectural style incorporating Greek forms and modes, that changed the English look of late Colonial architecture.
		Disenchantment with baroque, with rococo, and even with neo-Palladianism turned late 18th-century designers and patrons toward the original Greek and...
	encarta.msn.com /Greek_Revival.html (110 words)

	New Old House
		Also, the compactness of a Greek Revival plan lends itself to a compactness of needs." The architect's intentions changed significantly when he fell in love with a piece of property-a small knoll rising among dramatically rolling fields and bordered by woodlands.
		For his new Greek Revival, he chose a style popular in Northeastern states that is sometimes referred to as a "penetrated temple"-a templelike central structure with a wing on either side.
		Unlike the floor plan of an original Greek Revival, Schafer set the fireplaces back to back in the center of the two rooms and placed a doorway on either side, thus allowing for greater flow between rooms and opening two more sight lines through the house.
	www.newoldhousemag.com /features/greek.shtml (1816 words)

	Greek Revival
		The Greek Revival was thus not the superficial fashion we have come to see it looking back through the subsequent revival styles of the nineteenth century.
		Greek architecture was a new and exciting story told, if not in the native tongue, at least in a thoroughly familiar second language, at precisely the moment when all other tales had grown stale and old.
		Though in style the Greek Revival was a culmination of the classical tradition, technologically it presided over the beginning of America's industrial age.
	freenet.buffalo.edu /bah/a/archsty/grk/gkfoley.html (911 words)

	RCHS: Architectural Styles
		The Greek Revival is often considered the first truly American style.
		The Greek Revival style arose out of a young nation's desire to identify with the ideals of the ancient Greek Republic.
		The Greek Revival style returned to an earlier classical mode, and therefore, unlike the Federal style, imitates the post and beam structures of the Greeks who did not have the arch.
	www.rchsonline.org /ar_greek2.htm (418 words)

	BU Alumni Web :: Bostonia :: Summer 2003
		The Greek system sprouted at BU at the end of the 1800s, and it thrived through the 1950s.
		Today, the Greek system is back and building a loyal base that is revitalizing what many had considered to be an outdated system.
		Fraternities (never called “frats” by Greeks, who consider it derogatory) and sororities were established at the College of Liberal Arts before the turn of the last century.
	www.bu.edu /alumni/bostonia/2003/summer/greek/index.html (603 words)

	19th-Century Adrian Architecture - Greek Revival
		The Greek Revival is a uniquely American style derived from the British Free Classic style, which is a blend of Renaissance and ancient Roman forms that were combined most famously in the United States Capital.
		The so-called “Greek Fever” that swept through America at that time was prompted in large part by the Greek War of Independence, which was fought between 1821 and 1829, freeing the Christian Greeks from almost four hundred years of Muslim domination by the Ottoman Turks.
		In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Greek Revival style evolved into what is commonly referred to as a “Michigan Farmhouse,” or a “front gable and wing,” which is a plain L-shaped two story white clapboard home with the main gable facing the street.
	www.sienaheights.edu /personal/pbarr/greek-revival.html (1154 words)

	Architecture of period houses of Brunswick Maine, page 3, by Westwind Design
		This type of Greek Revival design, known as "corner-entry," has a gable end facing the street (the better to evoke the image of a porticoed Greek temple facade; also a good design for narrow urban lots).
		Greek Revival features include small upstairs windows above tall (triple-hung) downstairs windows; giant corner pilasters; and an entablature and cornice which completely encircle the house below the main roof.
		This stylish brick example of the later Greek Revival style can be considered to be the prototype of the vernacular Greek Revival "gable front and wing" house which was immensely popular throughout New England, New York and the Upper Midwest in the mid-to-late 19th century.
	www.westwinddesign.com /art1c.htm (973 words)

	In the Greek Revival Style >> 1833-1842: Built with Elegance & Taste >> Pillars of Power
		Greek Revival marked one of the first architectural innovations of the fledgling American republic.
		The movement drew its inspiration, in large part, from the architectural tinkering of Thomas Jefferson, who felt Greek elements imparted a sense of antiquity and immortality to the public landmarks of America's experiment in democracy.
		The Bank of Pennsylvania, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is an important early example of Greek Revival architecture in the United States.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /exhibits/permanent/pillars-of-power/1833-1842/greek-revival-style (271 words)

	Greek Revival
		The antiquities of Greece inspired the Greek Revival style, the most common 19th century architectural style in Vermont.
		The most elaborate Greek Revival style buildings resemble temples with their roof gables facing forward with monumental columned porticos across the front.
		Windows in Greek Revival style houses usually have six panes of glass in each sash.
	www.uvm.edu /~vhnet/histarch/haas03.html (267 words)

	Greek Revival Architecture
		The Greek Revival movement becomes widely accepted throughout the early U.S. as a symbol of the new democracy.
		Curiously, Pennsylvanians adopted the Greek Revival style only in minimal ways, preferring instead the tradition of the Georgian row house, right up through the Civil War.
		Washington, D.C. Capitol Building, with Greek Revival additions and dome, constructed in the years before and during the Civil War.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~twp/architecture/greek (0 words)

	Greek Revival, 1820-1850 - Oldhouseweb.com
		More modest than many Greek Revival homes, this home is unusual in its one and a half story construction that incorporates many features of the larger temples, including square columns, triple sash windows downstairs and a portico.
		The Greek Revival Style began with public buildings in Philadelphia in 1820, and quickly became popular for residences.
		Defining characteristics of Greek Revival homes include a symmetrical shape, pilasters, columns, a porch entry, a window in the pediment, and plain or highly decorated cornices and friezes.
	www.oldhouseweb.com /stories/Detailed/10456.shtml (0 words)

	MDOT - Greek Revival
		It was called Greek Revival, and it was inspired by the Greek War for Independence being fought against Turkey.
		Americans were sympathetic to the Greek cause and Greek motifs became fashionable.
		The Greek Revival house can be constructed of wood or brick.
	www.michigan.gov /mdot/0,1607,7-151-9620_11154_11189-29315--,00.html (0 words)

	Greek Revival
		This webpage was created for the purpose of defining the role of Greek Revival architecture in the state of Arkansas, as well as in American History.
		Greek Revival style was introduced into the United States at the end of the 18th century.
		The death of Greek Revival architecture was gradual and regional.
	asms.k12.ar.us /armem/99-00/coffmanc/GREEK4.HTM (0 words)

	Office of the Curator, Department of the Treasury, Exhibition - Greek Revival Architecture in Washington, DC
		To Robert Mills, the rational and robust quality of the Greek Revival was the appropriate solution for the next generation of federal buildings in Washington, including the Treasury Building.
		The Greek Ionic Capital, distinctive in its dip between two scrolled volutes, crowns the thirty columns along Treasury’s East facade, adding formality to the exterior in contrast to the simpler interior column capitals in the Doric style.
		The landscape of government buildings in Washington today resonates the continuing influence of the Greek Revival and the classical ideals of a nation seeking to assert its newfound status in the world.
	www.ustreas.gov /offices/management/curator/exhibitions/2002exhibit/greekrevival.html (0 words)

	Greek Revival
		American Greek Revival is best exemplified by the stately southern plantation mansions with their ranks of imposing columns.
		Examples of Greek Revival houses are to be found throughout Huntington County.
		Many Greek Revivals hide behind bric-a-brac that was added to "modernize" them to the fancier tastes of the Victorian period.
	www.huntingtoncounty.org /architecture/greek.htm (531 words)

	City of Cincinnati -Greek Revival 1835-1860
		Greek Revival houses are usually symmetrical, simple in detail, and constructed of brick or wood.
		The popular color for high style Greek Revival houses was white, which was assumed to be the appropriate color for Greek temples.
		Greek Revival was popular in Cincinnati, and several variations of the style exist here.
	www.cincinnati-oh.gov /cdap/pages/-3773- (232 words)

	Greek Revival
		Greek Revival Style Architecture in the Lily of the Valley Historic District (1800-1850)
		Greek Revival was the dominant style in America from 1820-1850.
		Thomas Jefferson inspired the Greek Revival movement, which became widely accepted throughout the early U.S. as a symbol of the new democracy.
	www.ridgwayheritagecouncil.org /greek.htm (132 words)

	Colleges embracing a Greek revival - The Boston Globe
		The three dozen Greek chapters on campus today are a scattershot group: Some have as few as 15 members, and just half have their own houses.
		The administration is working on a deal to buy and demolish the heart of the school's "fraternity row," five houses that administrators say are run-down and occupy land that could better be used for other campus buildings.
		He hopes to see more Greeks living in campus housing, and may set aside floors for them in dorms or even build them a separate residence, as he did for fraternities and sororities at George Washington University when he worked there.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/05/29/colleges_embracing_a_greek_revival (1001 words)

	Greek Revival \| Departures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And yet, the quintessential Greek experience remains exquisitely simple—fresh fish perfectly grilled in a taverna near the water, a plate of fresh figs the hotelkeeper brings to your room each morning.
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	www.departures.com /tr/tr_1003_greekislands.html (4620 words)

	Greek Revival
		The Greek Revival style, with its generous scale and austere decoration, proved ideally suitable and it dominated domestic architecture locally throughout the antebellum period.
		Of the city's twenty Greek Revival style dwellings, ten were built along the side-hall plan, seven have center-hall plans, one displays the hall-and-parlor plan, another (now altered) house probably was hall-and-parlor in plan, and one was built in the transverse-hall plan.
		A distinctive stylistic element found on almost all local Greek Revival style houses is a trabeated entrance surround containing a raised tablet above the transom; this element, adopted from the designs of Asher Benjamin, is best illustrated at the Pool-Lumsden-Peters House (204 South Road Street, 1840).
	www.historicelizabethcity.org /text/2.1.1.1.3.1.html (434 words)

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