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McKim, Mead, and White renovation of the Entrance Hall in 1924 during the administration of Calvin Coolidge. An 1882 photograph shows the Tiffany screen, Brumidi frescos, and encaustic tile floor. The Entrance Hall (also called the Grand Foyer) is the primary and formal entrance to the White House, the official residence of the president of the ...
Towards improving design of federal buildings in the United States, "the committee recommended architecture that would convey the 'dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American Government.' Designers and officials were encouraged to pay special attention to site selection and layout, including landscape development." [1]
It is Federal in style. It was probably built between 1826 and 1850. [2] It is a two-story, five-bay brick central passage plan house, with brick laid in Flemish bond. Its interior includes simple Federal style mantels. It was described in 1984 as "one of the best examples in the county of Federal style architecture." [2]
By Steele Marcoux Federal home design style comes with another confusing name. In design, the word "federal" simply indicates the time period (1780–1820) when the style, known among architecture ...
In Salem, Massachusetts, there are numerous examples of American colonial architecture and Federal architecture in two historic districts: Chestnut Street District, which is part of the Samuel McIntire Historic District containing 407 buildings, and the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, consisting of 12 historic structures and about 9 acres (4 ha) of land along the waterfront.
The first comprehensive draft of a grid layout for CSS was created by Phil Cupp at Microsoft in 2011 and implemented in Internet Explorer 10 behind a -ms-vendor prefix. The syntax was restructured and further refined through several iterations in the CSS Working Group , led primarily by Elika Etemad and Tab Atkins Jr.
The most common architectural house and home styles in America include colonial, Cape Cod, ranch, and more. Learn how to identify these house styles.
Entrance hall. 90 Church Street is a federal office building in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The building houses the United States Postal Service's Church Street Station, which is responsible for the 10007 ZIP code. The building takes up a full block between Church Street and West Broadway and between Vesey and Barclay Streets.