Architectural Styles
Second Empire
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1852-1900
- Opulent and eclectic aesthetic
- mansard roofs
- exaggerated cornices
- decorative elements
- pilasters
- brackets,
- sculptural details
- symmetrical facades
- bay windows
- France
- USA
- Canada
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Townhouses
- single-family homes
- courthouses
- schools
- hotels
- department stores
- Palais Garnier
- Salle Labrouste
- Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art INHA’s library, St Augustin
- Philadelphia City Hall
- reading room Bibliothèque national
- Les Halles
- Pomeroy House Southport, Connecticut
- Napoleon III Apartments, Louvre Palace
- St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago, Illinois
- Mairie du 1er Arrondissement de Paris
- Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Belleville
- Marseille Cathedral
- Saint-Laurent, Paris
- Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile
- Pavillon de Flore south façade Louvre
- Fontaine Saint-Michel
- Mairie of the 19th arrondissement in Pari
- Théâtre du Châtelet
- Bois de Boulogne
- Fontaine de l’Observatoire
- National Museum, Warsaw
- Bendigo Town hall
- Colonial Secretary’s Building, Sydney
- Hawthorn Town Hall
- Hotel Metropole, Sydney
- Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
- former Kew Asylum
- Parliament House, Brisbane
- Tenterfield Post Office
- Bowes Museum
- Cámara Houses Yucatan
- Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts
- Musée de Picardie.
- Nice Observatory
- Grand Urban Hotels (Flagship Second Empire Type) – Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, Montreal
- Railway & Gateway Hotels
- Resort & Leisure Hotels
- Exhibition & Event Hotels (to cater for World’s fairs and expositions
- Apartment Hotels & Long-Stay Lodging
- Boarding Houses & Private Hotels
- Palace-Hotels & Government-Adjacent Lodging
- Inns
- Lodges
- The Langham — London, England 1865
- The Grand Hôtel du Louvre (original building) Paris, France 1855
- Hotel Continental (original) Paris 1878
- Hotel du Louvre Paris
- Palace Hotel (original building) — San Francisco, USA 1875
- Windsor Hotel [Railway Hotel] Montreal, Canada 1878
- Hotel del Monte [Resort] Monterey California, USA 1880
- Royal York precursors / early Canadian resort hotels
- Château Frontenac (conceptual lineage) Quebec City
Adaptive Reuse
- Second Empire Apartment Hotels Paris & New York
- Second Empire Boarding Houses Boston, New York
Landmarks
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