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  2. Federal architecture - Wikipedia

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    The historic eastern part of Bleecker Street in New York, between Broadway and the Bowery, is home to Federal-style row houses at 7 to 13 and 21 to 25 Bleecker Street. The classicizing style of Federal architecture can especially be seen in the quintessential New England meeting house, with their lofty and complex towers by architects such as ...

  3. Federal Row - Wikipedia

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    Federal Row consists of five historic residential buildings located at Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania.They are the Charles M. Tibbals House (1842), the Alexander Brewster House (1823), the Kennedy Row House (1836), the David Kennedy House (1832), and the Kennedy Double House (1840).

  4. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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    This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. ... Federal. Garrison ...

  5. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada

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    Sometimes they include interior courts. Most Second Empire domestic plans are adapted from prevailing plan types developed for Italianate designs by authors such as Alexander Jackson Davis and Samuel Sloan. The prime distinction between the designs is a preference for a central focus rather than a diffusion of forms.

  6. Terraced house - Wikipedia

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    A terrace, terraced house , or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row houses or row homes.

  7. Peter Wentz House - Wikipedia

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    Built sometime between 1866 and 1870, the Wentz home is reminiscent of the Federal row-house design predominantly found in the Eastern United States.The Peter Wentz House was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmarks Registry on April 26, 1996.

  8. Federal buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    From 1864 on the Office of the Supervising Architect handled design of federal buildings. [3] William Gibbs McAdoo, the Secretary of the Treasury from 1913 to 1918, and the Supervising Architect at the time, James A. Wetmore promoted standardization of government building design. They instituted the policy that buildings were to be designed ...

  9. Architecture of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    The row house was introduced to the United States via Philadelphia in the 17th century, the United States' first International style skyscraper was built in Philadelphia, and one of the most important examples of Postmodern architecture, Robert Venturi's Guild House, is located in the city.