Architectural Styles
Egyptian Revival
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1798-1930s
- Egyptian Motifs
- hieroglyphs
- obelisks
- sphinxes
- lotus columns
- grand and imposing scale
- symmetry
- stone, that mimics ancient Egyptian stonework
- color palette of warm earth tones and gold accents
- pyramid shapes or elements,
- USA
- Europe
- Australia
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Museums
- libraries
- banks
- memorials
- monuments
- theatres
- performing arts venues
- Egyptian Hall London
- Tombs in the Cemetery of Père Lachaise
- Fairmount Park Philadelphia
- Egyptian Revival Wing of the Louvre Museum
- Church of St. John the Evangelist NY
- Neues Museum Berlin
- Temple maçonnique des Amis philanthropes Brussels
- Egyptian Theatre Colorado
- Hotel Beauharnais Paris
- Fontasine du Fellah Paris
- Tsarskoye Selo St Petersburg
- Highgate cemetry london
- Egyptain building Virginia Commonweath Uni Richmond
- Hotels
- Inns
- Converted Egyptian Revival civic / commercial buildings
- Egyptian Revival entertainment buildings adapted to hotels
- Masonic temples / fraternal buildings reused as hotels
- Apartment hotels in Egyptian Revival residential blocks
- “Egyptomania” interiors within otherwise non-Egyptian buildings
- Cairo’s “Egyptian Revival–themed” Hospitality Districts / Boutique Hotels
- Hotels Influenced by Egyptomania or Egyptian Motifs – Winter Palace Hotel, Luxor
- Related / Thematic Examples – Mena House Hotel, Giza; Windsor Hotel (Cairo)
Adaptive Reuse
- Cairo Marriott (originally Gezirah Palace)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation