The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture .
5-700: The James Alexander Veasey House , also known as the Veasey-Leach House , is a Colonial Revival style house in Tulsa, Oklahoma that was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 "for its architectural significance as a local landmark example of the Colonial Revival style". It is included in the Buena Vista Park Historic District , later listed on
10-532: 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
15-700: A subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey . This article about a property in Oklahoma on 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,
20-671: The NRHP. It was designed by local architect John T. Blair . The structure is a two-story Colonial Revival house. It is T-shaped, has clapboard siding and a gabled roof with a dormer centered above the entry. The original owner, James Alexander Veasey , was a lawyer for the Dawes Commission who settled in Tulsa and founded the Holland Hall School . He lived in this house until 1938, when he retired as chief counsel for Carter Oil Company ,
25-711: 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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