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Gothic Revival: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Neogothic style
Date 1750 - 1880
Related Artists A.W.N. Pugin • Robert Adam • Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc • Jasper Francis Cropsey • Bertram G. Goodhue • Henry Ives Cobb • Norman Shaw • Sir Charles Barry • Sir George Gilbert Scott • James Renwick • Richard Upjohn • James Wyatt • George Edmund Street • Ralph Adams Cram • Alexander Jackson Davis • Karl Friedrich Schinkel • Edward Godwin • Alfred Waterhouse • William Butterfield • William Burges • Frank Heyling Furness • Raymond M. Hood • Thomas Rickman

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Gothic Revival: Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
Gothic-style facade of St. Patrick's Cathedral with twin spires, surrounded by modern skyscrapers in New York City.
The Tribune Tower in Chicago, a tall neo-Gothic skyscraper with ornate stonework and pointed spires, rises above trees and nearby buildings.
Figure 2: Social and economic considerations in interior design.(left) Elaborate mid-19th century dining room in the Gothic Revival style, Lyndhurst, Tarrytown New York, designed by Alexander J. Davis.
Houses of Parliament, London, a complex of Gothic Revival buildings designed by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1837–60.
Figure 93: English secular architecture in the Gothic Revival style. (left) Midland Hotel at St. Pancras Station, London, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1867-74.
Gothic Revival style bargeboard on the New York Yacht Club House (currently in Mystic, Conn., U.S.), by Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846
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