Assembly Rooms

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Assembly Rooms

building, York, England, United Kingdom

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By 1731 Burlington’s Assembly Rooms at York, based on Palladio’s reconstruction of an Egyptian hall, was fully Neoclassical. Similarly, William Kent’s entrance hall at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, begun in 1734 and reminiscent of a Roman basilica, would not seem out of date 50 years later. Despite these early…
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By 1731 Burlington’s Assembly Rooms at York, based on Palladio’s reconstruction of an Egyptian hall, was fully Neoclassical. Similarly, William Kent’s entrance hall at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, begun in 1734 and reminiscent of a Roman basilica, would not seem out of date 50 years later. Despite these early…
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