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Stick Style 1860–1890+ (US) Queen Anne Style architecture (United States) 1880–1910s (US) Eastlake Style 1879–1905 (US) Richardsonian Romanesque 1880s–1905 (US) Shingle Style 1879–1905; Neo-Byzantine 1882–1920s (US) Renaissance Revival. American Renaissance; Châteauesque 1887–1930s (Canada, US, Hungary) Canadian Chateau 1880s ...
The high style is mostly seen in expensive public buildings and the houses of the wealthy, while the vernacular form is more common in typical domestic architecture. The exterior style could be expressed in either wood, brick or stone, though high style examples on the whole prefer stone facades or brick facades with stone details (a brick and ...
Second Empire style, also known as the Napoleon III style, is a highly eclectic style of architecture and decorative arts originating in the Second French Empire. It was characterized by elements of many different historical styles, and also made innovative use of modern materials, such as iron frameworks and glass skylights.
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"Kragsyde," Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts (1883–1885, demolished 1929), Peabody and Stearns, architects. The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne architecture.
The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over two centuries of independence and former Spanish, French, Dutch and British rule. Architecture in the United States has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional distinctions.
George Devey (1820–1886) and the better-known Norman Shaw (1831–1912) popularized the Queen Anne style of British architecture of the industrial age in the 1870s. Norman Shaw published a book of architectural sketches as early as 1858, and his evocative pen-and-ink drawings began to appear in trade journals and artistic magazines in the 1870s.
February 28 – Robert Willis, English mechanical engineer, phonetician and architectural historian (born 1800) June 5 – E. W. Pugin, English ecclesiastical architect (born 1834) June 24 – Henri Labrouste, French architect (born 1801)