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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the architectural movement that is also called the Classical or NeoClassical periods. Specific examples, predominately in New York, are explored. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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American shores (Gardner, 1936). Up until the middle of the century, copies of classical buildings would spring up, something that had a Jeffersonian tone (1936). Suddenly there was a Roman
influence and for example, the State House at Richmond was patterned after the Maison Carree and the University of Virginia is another example of the new trend (1936). The
United States Bank of Philadelphia and the Sub-Treasury and Custom House of New York were designed after Greek Temples (1936). Jefferson would introduce the Classical style in his famous
Monticello (Gardner, 1936). Its characteristic Doric portico created a new trend (1936). Monticello however was designed in 1770. Jefferson was ahead of his time. Beginning with the Classical
movement, the nineteenth century would see a succession of historical styles from French Renaissance to the Romanesque (1936). There was a great deal of movement in architecture and the early
part of the nineteenth century was especially important. It is also known as the Greek Revival. And while there were several movements that were really one in the same, the
Greek Revival was something quite political. During the three decades prior to the Civil War, Americans looked to Ancient Greece for inspiration and people tried their hands
at columns, pilasters, and laurel wreaths as well as a system of ornamentation that had emanated from from lotuses and acanthuses, and Hellenized tobacco leaves (Kennedy, 1989) .
The architectural precedents actually came from both Greece and Rome, but Americans aligned this new movement with republicanism and the civilized Greek society as opposed to imperial Rome, and therefore
it was fashionable to say "Greek" rather than "Roman" (1989). Yet, this classical movement that had come overseas was dubbed the Greek Revival to create a more cosmopolitan effect.
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