Architectural Styles
Palazzo Revival
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1816-1930s
- Large, symmetrical facades
- elaborate ornamentation,
- rounded arches for windows and doorways,
- rusticated stone or brickwork
- prominent balconies or verandas,
- decorative ironwork
- elaborate stone balustrades,
- Clay Tile Roofs
- USA
- NYC
- Chicago
- SF
- Italy
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Civic buildings
- residential homes
- theaters,
- opera houses
- urban hotels
- clubs
- banks
- apartment buildings
- cultural centers
- Boston Public Library
- Palais Leuchtenberg Munich
- The Travellers Club (1829)
- The Reform Club (1830), Pall Mall, London
- Athenaeum Club London,
- United Service Club
- The Athenaeum, Manchester
- Bridgewater House, London
- Cliveden in Buckinghamshire
- The General Post Office Building, Sydney
- Free Trade Hall Manchester
- Prudential (Guaranty) Building Buffalo
- Wainwright Building St. Louis
- Bauakademie, Berlin
- The Machinery Hall at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
- The Ryrie Building Toronto, Canada
- Purpose-built “palazzo-style” grand hotels
- Palazzo Revival apartment-hotel conversions
- Gentlemen’s club / social club conversions
- Commercial palazzo conversions (banks/offices to hotels)
- Railway-era city hotels in palazzo form
- Serviced apartments in palazzo revival buildings
- The Langham, London (opened 1865)
- The Savoy, London (opened 1889)
- Hôtel Regina Louvre, Paris (opened 1900)
- InterContinental Paris Le Grand (opened 1862)
- The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York (1859)
- The Palmer House, Chicago (later 1870s rebuilding)
- Grand Hotel et de Milan, Milan (opened 1863)
- Hotel Windsor, Melbourne (1883)
Adaptive Reuse
- The Fullerton Hotel Sydney (former GPO building, 1874–1891)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation