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) 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) CLASSIC DERIVATIONS IN EARLY AMERICAN 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 By virtue of assimilation, the English Georgian style of Colonial 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) 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 |