The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture .
4-569: Bland House is a two-story frame Colonial Revival -style house located in Alexandria, Louisiana . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It has a colossal Tuscan pedimented portico . The tympanum has a vent with a Palladian window design. The four columns' capitals are ornamented with molded leaf forms. This article about a property in Louisiana on
8-591: A period when Queen Anne-style architecture was dominant in the United States. From 1910–1930, the Colonial Revival movement was ascendant, with about 40% of U.S. homes built in the Colonial Revival style. In the immediate post-war period ( c. 1950s –early 1960s), Colonial Revival homes continued to be constructed, but in simplified form. In the present-day, many New Traditional homes draw from Colonial Revival styles. Although associated with
12-540: The National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Colonial Revival architecture The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 , which reawakened Americans to the architectural traditions of their colonial past. Fairly small numbers of Colonial Revival homes were built c. 1880 –1910,
16-711: The architectural movement, "Colonial Revival" also refers to historic preservation , landscape architecture and garden design, and decorative arts movements that emulate or draw inspiration from colonial forms. While the dominant influences in Colonial Revival style are Georgian and Federal architecture , Colonial Revival homes also draw, to a lesser extent, from the Dutch Colonial style and post-medieval English styles. Colonial Revival homes are often eclectic in style, combining aspects from several of these previous styles. Since Colonial Revival architecture pulls structural and decorative elements from other styles, there
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