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Greek Revival: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 1800 - 1850
Related Artists Benjamin Latrobe • William Strickland • Karl Friedrich Schinkel • Thomas Ustick Walter • Alexander Parris • Leo von Klenze

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The British Museum, London, a Greek Revival building designed by Sir Robert Smirke, 1823–47.
Brandenburg Gate
La Grange Terrace, La Fayette Place, New York City, an elegant apartment building in the Greek Revival style, c. 1830s.
Greek Revival: capital
Large white antebellum mansion with two-story columns and wraparound porches, Dunleith Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi; two women in period dress stand on the front walkway.
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