Colonial Revival architecture

Memorial City Hall, Auburn, New York, built in 1929-30 in the Colonial Revival style

Historic Robinson Hall on the Louisiana Tech University campus in Ruston, Louisiana, is named for the second president of the institution, William Claiborne Robinson

Colonial Revival (also Neocolonial, Georgian Revival or Neo-Georgian) architecture was and is a nationalistic design movement in the United States. Part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement embracing Georgian and Neoclassical styles, it seeks to revive elements of architectural style, garden design, and interior design of American colonial architecture.

The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 reawakened Americans to their colonial past. This movement gained momentum in the 1890s and was accelerated by the early 20th century advent of the automobile, which expanded the ability of ordinary Americans to visit sites connected with their heritage.

History

Colonial Revival post office in Hyattsville, Maryland

Successive waves of revivals of British colonial architecture have swept the United States since 1876. In the 19th century, Colonial Revival took a formal style. Public interest in the Colonial Revival style in the early 20th century helped popularize books and atmospheric photographs of Wallace Nutting showing scenes of New England. Historical attractions such as Colonial Williamsburg helped broaden exposure in the 1930s.

In the post-World War II era, Colonial design elements were merged with the then popular ranch-style house design. In the early part of the 21st century, certain regions of the United States embraced aspects of Anglo-Caribbean and British Empire styles.

Defining characteristics

Colonial Revival home of Henry M. Jackson in Everett, Washington

Colonial Revival sought to follow American colonial architecture of the period around the Revolutionary War, which drew strongly from Georgian architecture of Great Britain.

Structures are typically two stories with the ridge pole running parallel to the street, have a symmetrical front facade with an accented doorway, and evenly spaced windows on either side of it.

Features borrowed from colonial period houses of the early 19th century include elaborate front doors, often with decorative crown pediments, fanlights, and sidelights, symmetrical windows flanking the front entrance, often in pairs or threes, and columned porches.

Brown and Sypherd Residence Halls, University of Delaware. Much of the central campus is built in Colonial Revival style.

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Architecture of the United States

Colonial	American colonial architecture Colonial Georgian Dutch Colonial French Colonial German Colonial Spanish Colonial

Early Republic	Adam Federal Jeffersonian

Mid-19th century	Greek Revival Italianate Gothic Revival

Victorian	Richardsonian Romanesque Second Empire American Renaissance Folk Stick style Queen Anne Shingle Territorial

Late-19th to mid-20th century	Beaux-Arts Chicago School Colonial Revival Dutch Colonial Revival Mediterranean Revival Mission Revival Spanish Colonial Revival Tudor Revival Pueblo Revival Territorial Revival American Craftsman Prairie School American Foursquare California bungalow Art Deco Streamline Moderne PWA Moderne

Post-World War II to current	International style Usonian American ranch Modern Postmodern Neo-eclectic New Classical Architecture

Vernacular	Hall and parlor house Central-passage house Log cabin Cape Cod Saltbox Creole cottage Dogtrot house I-house Shotgun house Sod house Carpenter Gothic First Period

Historicism and Revivalism in Western architecture and decorative arts

International	Baroque Revival Beaux-Arts Byzantine Revival Egyptian Revival Gothic Revival Greek Revival / Neo-Grec Moorish Revival Neoclassical New Classical / Neo-Historism Renaissance Revival Châteauesque Italianate Palazzo style Romanesque Revival Second Empire Swiss chalet style Vernacular

British Empire	Adam style Bristol Byzantine Carpenter Gothic Canada Edwardian Baroque Indo-Saracenic Revival India Jacobethan Queen Anne style Regency Scottish baronial style Tudor Revival / Black-and-White Revival

France	French Renaissance Henry II style Louis Treize Louis Quatorze Louis Quinze Directoire style Empire style Second Empire Belle Époque Art Nouveau Art Deco

Germany	Biedermeier Gründerzeit Nazi architecture Resort style Rundbogenstil

Greece and Balkans	Mycenaean Revival Serbo-Byzantine Revival

Italy	Stile umbertino

Mexico	Mayan Revival

Netherlands	Traditionalist School

Nordic Countries	National Romantic style

Norway	Dragon Style

Portugal	Pombaline Neo-Manueline Soft Portuguese style

Russian Empire and USSR	Byzantine Revival Russian Revival Stalinist architecture

Spain	Neo-Mudéjar

United States	Jeffersonian architecture American Renaissance Carpenter Gothic Collegiate Gothic Colonial Revival Federal style Greco Deco Mediterranean Revival Mission Revival Polish Cathedral style Pueblo Revival Queen Anne style Richardsonian Romanesque Spanish Colonial Revival Territorial Revival

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Colonial Revival architecture

History

Defining characteristics

See also

Further reading

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