Architectural Styles
Greek Revival
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1800-1860
- Prominent columns, in Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian order
- symmetry
- Triangular pediments above the entrance
- horizontal entablature
- columns with intricate friezes and cornices,
- large, covered porches (porticos)
- USA
- Europe
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Courthouses
- museums
- private residences
- churches
- Brandenburg Gate Berlin
- Northington Grange
- Yorkshire Museum
- Neue Wache Belin
- Propylaea Munich
- Wallhalla Bavaria
- Austrian Parliament Building Vienna
- Academy of Athens
- British Museum
- St Pancras Church
- Second Bank of the United States Philadelphia
- Tennessee State Capitol Nashville
- Old Courthouse St Louis
- Merchant’s Exchange Philadelphia
- Greek Revival mansion B&Bs
- Plantation house / estate lodging (US South)
- Townhouse boutique hotels
- Early commercial hotels / inns (Greek Revival façades)
- Civic building conversions
- Serviced apartments in Greek Revival buildings
- Taverns
- Inns
- The Brice — Savannah, Georgia
- Hermitage Inn (formerly Hermitage Motor Inn) Petersburg, West Virginia;
- ressey House Oakland, Maine
- Josiah Merritt Adobe / Merritt House Monterey, California
- ]John and Martinus Laraway Inn Prattsville, New York
- Greek Revival Bed & Breakfast – Albemarle Inn, Asheville, NC; House of 1833, Mystic, CT; River Edge Mansion, New York stat
- National Hotel in Washington, D.C (demolished 1942)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation