Rocks in Montrose Park by Gregw66.
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GM is at the beach this week, in his absence enjoy this rerun of his series on Georgetown architecture:
This week GM is exploring the variety of historical architectural styles around Georgetown. Today GM explores the early Victorian period.
The two styles that dominated early Victorian architecture were Second Empire and Stick. However, there are no examples of Stick architecture in Georgetown that GM could find (the Stick style is not surprisingly tailored to wooden homes, which was not a popular building material in bricky Georgetown). So for Georgetown early Victorian architecture means only Second Empire.
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Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
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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. Continue reading
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Canal by DChousegrooves.
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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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