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Marcus Whiffen states that the "first building in the United States to incorporate a Greek order was the Bank of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1798". [1] Talbot Hamlin says that "The period called 'Greek Revival,' extend[s] roughly from 1820 to 1860." [2] The Millford Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1840
Kansas City, Missouri's first highrise is the New York Life Insurance Building, completed in 1890. It has twelve floors at a height of 180 feet (55 m) and is the first local building with elevators. After the New York Life Building was completed, Kansas City followed the national trend of constructing a plethora of buildings above ten stories.
Greek Revival architecture in Washington, D.C. (2 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Greek Revival architecture in the United States" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
History of college campuses and architecture in the United States; History of fountains in the United States; A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time; History of religious architecture in Vicenza; Howgills, Letchworth Garden City; Hypaethral
Pages in category "Greek Revival architecture in Kansas" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;
St. Augustine, the first continuously European-occupied city in North America, was established in 1565. Beginning in 1598, quarried coquina from Anastasia Island contributed to a new colonial style of architecture in this city. Coquina is a limestone conglomerate, containing small shells of mollusks.
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Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC. [1]