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THE TYPICAL PALATIAL RESIDENCE OF FRANCE, FROM MEDIEVAL TIMES THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE

The French château, first a residential fortress, later a country pleasure palace, has furnished much architectural inspiration which is to be reckoned with to-day (Château de Langeais)

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THE NEW ENGLAND GAMBREL-ROOFED TYPE A typical early American Colonial house at Hadlyme, Connecticut

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THE DUTCH COLONIAL GAMBREL-ROOFED TYPE A typical Dutch Colonial house, the Terhune homestead, at Hackensack, New Jersey (The dormer windows in the roof are a later addition)

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CLASSIC DERIVATIONS IN EARLY AMERICAN
ARCHITECTURE

A characteristic detail, showing columns and pediment, pilasters, a Georgian "fan-light" over the door and a Classic Georgian Palladian window above

Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, Architects

A MODERN DERIVATION FROM EARLY AMERICAN
CLASSICISM

By virtue of assimilation, the English Georgian style of Colonial
and Post-Colonial days has come to be regarded as a native style,
usually called "American Colonial"

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THE "AMERICAN EMPIRE" STYLE, A PURE EXAMPLE OF THE GREEK CLASSIC REVIVAL IN AMERICA

The large columns are replicas from the monument of Lysicrates in Athens, the entrance introducing a pure Greek Doric column, with French Empire wreaths in the frieze, and iron candelabra and rail of Pompeian design

(Colonnade Row, New York City, built in 1836)

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A MODERN RENDERING OF GEORGIAN CLASSICISM Georgian details for the embellishment of a brick building constitute a style excellently adaptable to many modern types of building

THE GREEK CLASSIC REVIVAL IN AMERICA Typical example- a Greek Ionic porch in a city house in Baltimore, Md., built about 1820

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