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Field Guide to Georgetown Homes: The Romantic Period
GM is at the beach this week, in his absence enjoy a rerun of his series on Georgetown architecture:
This week GM is exploring the varieties of historic architecture in Georgetown and offering a field guide to help you identify each particular style.
Today: Romantic Period
For American architecture, the Romantic period stretched from 1820s to the 1880s representing the last years of the Federal Period through to the middle stages of the Victorian Era. In Georgetown the two most common Romantic Period styles are Greek Revival and Italianate.
First up: Greek Revival.
Greek Revival style homes were the dominant style across the U.S. from 1830s to 1850s. So much so that it is also called the “National Style”. Whereas Roman designs influenced the Federal period, increasingly intellectuals looked to Greece as the more appropriate model for the young democracy.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Canal by DChousegrooves.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Third Edition dinged by ABRA
- Do the street trees need pruning
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Field Guide to Georgetown Homes: Colonial and Federal Period
GM is at the beach, so in the meantime enjoy a rerun of his Field Guide to Georgetown Homes:
If there’s one constant in Georgetown real estate listings, it’s that every house, no matter its shape and style, is described as “Federal”. The problem is that only a small percentage of homes in Georgetown could fairly be described as “Federal”.
As GM described during his ten favorite things countdown, Georgetown represents a cross section of 19th century architecture. It has buildings of just about every major style from that time period. To help his readers better appreciate the wealth of architectural styles in Georgetown, GM is going to take a shot at writing a field guide to Georgetown homes.
First up: Colonial and Federal Homes
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by BAR Photography.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Chocolate frosted discontent on 33rd St.
- Not Georgetown-specific, but today is the last day to change your voter registration to be eligible to vote in the September primaries. Go here
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Off to the Beach
GM is off to the beach today. But have no fear, there will still be plenty of good stuff here next week. GM will drag himself away to write up the Morning Metropolitan each day and there’ll be a fresh Georgetown Metropolis each afternoon. In between: reruns! Yup, GM will bring back his highly acclaimed (in his head) architecture in Georgetown series. Enjoy!
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The Morning Metropolitan
Healy Hall by Aurelian.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Nice interview with George Gordon, frequent (and most entertaining) presenter at the ANC.
- Commissioners Lewis, Solomon, Eason, and Starrells and new candidate, Jake Sticka, have picked up petitions to run for ANC. Still no competitive races yet.
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