Architectural Styles

    Neo-Classical

    Alt names / subperiods 

    Timeline

    Distinguishing Features

    Geographic Presence

    Classical revival

    Empire

    Federal

    Greek Revival

    Adam Style

     

    Wikipedia

    1760-1840

    • Inspired by classical ancient Greece and Rome
    • symmetry
    • proportion
    • columns and pediments
    • triangular gables (pediments) to entryways and porticoes
    • friezes
    • cornices
    • bas-reliefs
    • domes
    • USA
    • Europe

    Common Building Types

    Landmark buildings

    Historic Accommodation Types

    Accommodation Examples

    • Govt buildings
    • museums
    • libraries
    • monuments
    • private residences
    • Petit Trianon Versailles, France
    • Triomphe du Carrousel (Paris)
    • Baltimore Basilica Maryland
    • Pantheon Paris
    • Grand Theater, Bordeaux
    • The Academy of Athens
    • The Oudenbosch Basilica Netherlands
    • HSBC Building, the Bund Shanghai
    • Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
    • The Custom House Dublin
    • Zappeion Hall Athens
    • Esztergom Basilica Budapest
    • National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo
    • St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Valletta Malta
    • Teatro Degollado Mexico
    • St. Alexander’s Church Warsaw
    • Admiralty, Saint Petersburg
    • British Museum London
    • United States Capitol Washington
    • National Gallery London
    • Lincoln Memorial Washington
    • Altes Museum Berlin
    • Munich Glyptothek
    • State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg,
    • Palace / aristocratic residence hotels
    • Neoclassical townhouse boutique hotels
    • Country house / villa hotels
    • Historic civic/institutional conversions
    • Spa-town neoclassical hotels
    • Former monasteries/convents with neoclassical rebuilding
    • Serviced apartments in neoclassical buildings
    • The Ritz London — London
    • The Biltmore — Coral Gables, Florida
    • Federal-era inns / hotels (USA) – Tremont House — Boston, Massachusetts; Whitehall Middletown, Connecticut; Howland House Inn — Wiscasset, Maine
    • The Dunstane Houses — Edinburgh
    • Kedleston Hall (ancillary estate lodging) Derbyshire
    • Willard InterContinental Hotel Washington, D.C

    Adaptive Reuse

    • Belmond Hotel Cipriani Venice,
    • Hôtel de Crillon Paris
    • The Merrion Dublin
    • The Georgian House Hotel — London
    • Palazzo Parigi Hotel Milan,
    • Hotel in former classical town halls / banks -some Italian and French palazzo conversions, many neoclassical former palaces and mansions across Europe (e.g., Milan, Vienna, Barcelona)

    Landmarks

    Original Accommodation

    Adapted Visitor Accommodation

     

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