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200 relations: ADAM Architecture, Albany (London), American colonial architecture, Ancient Greek architecture, Ancient Roman architecture, Andrea Palladio, Annapolis, Maryland, Architect, Architectural designer, Architectural pattern book, Architectural style, Area (architecture), Ashlar, Australia, Backyard, Balcony, Baluster, Banister Fletcher (junior), Banister Fletcher (senior), Baroque architecture, Bath, Somerset, Battle of the Styles, Ben Pentreath, Blackheath, London, Bradshaw Gass & Hope, Brick, Bristol, Bryanston Square, Canada, Carpenters' Hall, Carpentry, Chalk Farm, Charles Bulfinch, Chesterfield Town Hall, Chinoiserie, Christopher Hussey (historian), Christopher Wren, City Hall, Dublin, Classical architecture, Classical order, Clifton, Bristol, Colen Campbell, College of William & Mary, Colonial Revival architecture, Commissioners' church, Connecticut Hall, Construction worker, Crescent (architecture), Dartmouth College, Derbyshire, ... Expand index (150 more) »
- 18th-century architectural styles
- British architectural styles
ADAM Architecture
ADAM Architecture is a UK based, international architecture and urban design practice with offices in Winchester and London.
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Albany (London)
The Albany, or correctly, Albany, is an apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.
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American colonial architecture
American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. Georgian architecture and American colonial architecture are 18th-century architectural styles, American architectural styles and house styles.
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Ancient Greek architecture
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.
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Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio (Andrea Paładio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.
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Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.
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Architectural designer
The term architectural designer may refer to a building designer who is not a registered architect, architectural technologist or any other person that is involved in the design process of buildings or urban landscapes.
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Architectural pattern book
A pattern book, or architectural pattern book, is a book of architectural designs, usually providing enough for non-architects to build structures that are copies or significant derivatives of major architect-designed works.
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Architectural style
An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, form, size, structural design, and regional character. Georgian architecture and architectural style are architectural styles.
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Area (architecture)
In architecture, an area (areaway in North America) is an excavated, subterranean space around the walls of a building, designed to admit light into a basement.
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Ashlar
Ashlar is a cut and dressed stone, worked using a chisel to achieve a specific form, typically rectangular in shape.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Backyard
A backyard, or back yard (known in the United Kingdom as a back garden or just garden), is a yard at the back of a house, common in suburban developments in the Western world.
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Balcony
A balcony (from balcone, "scaffold") is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.
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Baluster
A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features.
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Banister Fletcher (junior)
Sir Banister Flight Fletcher (15 February 1866 – 17 August 1953) was an English architect and architectural historian, as was his father, also named Banister Fletcher.
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Banister Fletcher (senior)
Banister Fletcher (11 August 1833 – 5 July 1899) was an English architect and surveyor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1886.
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Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe. Georgian architecture and Baroque architecture are 18th-century architectural styles and architectural styles.
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Bath, Somerset
Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.
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Battle of the Styles
The Battle of the Styles is a term used to refer to the conflict between supporters of the Gothic style and the Classical style in architecture. Georgian architecture and Battle of the Styles are architectural styles.
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Ben Pentreath
Benjamin Toby Pentreath (born November 1971) is an English architectural and interior designer who runs Ben Pentreath Ltd, a RIBA chartered practice, and Pentreath & Hall, which sells home furnishings.
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Blackheath, London
Blackheath is an area in Southeast London, straddling the border of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham.
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Bradshaw Gass & Hope
Bradshaw Gass & Hope is an English architectural practice founded in 1862 by Jonas James Bradshaw (–1912).
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Brick
A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.
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Bryanston Square
Bryanston Square is an garden square in Marylebone, London.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Carpenters' Hall
Carpenters' Hall, in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the official birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a key meeting place in the early history of the United States.
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Carpentry
Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc.
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Chalk Farm
Chalk Farm is a small urban district of north west London, lying immediately north of Camden Town, in the London Borough of Camden.
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Charles Bulfinch
Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 – April 15, 1844) was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first American-born professional architect to practice.
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Chesterfield Town Hall
Chesterfield Town Hall is a municipal building on Rose Hill, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.
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Chinoiserie
(loanword from French chinoiserie, from chinois, "Chinese") is the European interpretation and imitation of Chinese and other Sinosphere artistic traditions, especially in the decorative arts, garden design, architecture, literature, theatre, and music.
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Christopher Hussey (historian)
Christopher Edward Clive Hussey CBE (21 October 1899 – 20 March 1970) was one of the chief authorities on British domestic architecture of the generation that also included Dorothy Stroud and Sir John Summerson.
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Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren FRS (–) was an English architect, astronomer, mathematician and physicist who was one of the most highly acclaimed architects in the history of England.
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City Hall, Dublin
The City Hall, Dublin, originally the Royal Exchange, is a civic building in Dublin, Ireland.
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Classical architecture
Classical architecture usually denotes architecture which is more or less consciously derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or sometimes more specifically, from De architectura (c. 10 AD) by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
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Classical order
An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.
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Clifton, Bristol
Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.
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Colen Campbell
Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style.
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College of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Colonial Revival architecture
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. Georgian architecture and colonial Revival architecture are American architectural styles and house styles.
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Commissioners' church
A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglican church in England or Wales built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1824.
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Connecticut Hall
Connecticut Hall (formerly South Middle College) is a Georgian building on the Old Campus of Yale University.
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Construction worker
A construction worker is a worker employed in the physical construction of the built environment and its infrastructure.
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Crescent (architecture)
A crescent is an architectural structure where a row of residences, typically terraced houses, are laid out in an arc to form a crescent shape.
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Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.
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Design
A design is the concept of or proposal for an object, process, or system.
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Ditchley Park
Ditchley Park is a country house near Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England.
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Donald McMorran
Donald Hanks McMorran RA FRIBA FSA (3 May 1904 – 6 August 1965) was an English architect who is known today for his sensitive continuation of the neo-Georgian and classical tradition in the period after the Second World War.
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Dunfermline
Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
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English Baroque architecture
English Baroque is a term used to refer to modes of English architecture that paralleled Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and roughly 1720, when the flamboyant and dramatic qualities of Baroque art were abandoned in favour of the more chaste, rule-based Neo-classical forms espoused by the proponents of Palladianism.
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English country house
An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Georgian architecture and English country house are house styles.
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English-speaking world
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language.
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Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin.
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Federal architecture
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of Andrea Palladio with several innovations on Palladian architecture by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries. Georgian architecture and Federal architecture are American architectural styles and house styles.
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Fireplace mantel
The fireplace mantel or mantelpiece, also known as a chimneypiece, originated in medieval times as a hood that projected over a fire grate to catch the smoke.
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Garden square
A garden square is a type of communal garden in an urban area wholly or substantially surrounded by buildings; commonly, it continues to be applied to public and private parks formed after such a garden becomes accessible to the public at large.
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Gatehouse
A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance.
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George Dance the Younger
George Dance the Younger RA (1 April 1741 – 14 January 1825) was an English architect and surveyor as well as a portraitist.
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George I of Great Britain
George I (George Louis; Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover within the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727.
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George II of Great Britain
George II (George Augustus; Georg August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 (O.S.) until his death in 1760.
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George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.
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George IV
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death in 1830.
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Georgian Dublin
Georgian Dublin is a phrase used in terms of the history of Dublin that has two interwoven meanings.
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Georgian era
The Georgian era was a period in British history from 1714 to, named after the Hanoverian kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.
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Georgian Quarter, Liverpool
The Georgian Quarter (sometimes known as Canning or the Canning Georgian Quarter) is an area on the eastern edge of Liverpool city centre, England, characterised by almost entirely residential Georgian architecture.
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Giacomo Leoni
Giacomo Leoni (1686 – 8 June 1746), also known as James Leoni, was an Italian architect, born in Venice.
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Golden ratio
In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. Georgian architecture and Gothic architecture are architectural styles.
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Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England. Georgian architecture and Gothic Revival architecture are American architectural styles, architectural styles and British architectural styles.
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Grainger Town
Grainger Town is the historic commercial center of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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Grand Séminaire de Montréal
The Grand séminaire de Montréal ("Major Seminary of Montreal") is the centre for priestly formation of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal.
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Grand Tour
The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).
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Greek Revival architecture
Greek Revival architecture was a style that began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada, as well as in Greece itself following its independence in 1821. Georgian architecture and Greek Revival architecture are architectural styles and house styles.
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Hall
In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls.
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Hammond–Harwood House
The Hammond–Harwood House is a historic house museum at 19 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
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Hanover Square, Westminster
Hanover Square is a green square in Mayfair, Westminster, south west of Oxford Circus where Oxford Street meets Regent Street.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Henry Flitcroft
Henry Flitcroft (30 August 1697 – 25 February 1769) was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism.
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Henry Holland (architect)
Henry Holland (20 July 1745 – 17 June 1806) was an architect to the English nobility.
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House of Hanover
The House of Hanover (Haus Hannover) is a European, formerly royal house with roots tracing back to the 17th century.
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Howard Colvin
Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (15 October 1919 – 27 December 2007) was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840 and The History of the King's Works.
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I quattro libri dell'architettura
I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), written in Italian.
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Inns of Court
The Inns of Court in London are the professional associations for barristers in England and Wales.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
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Isaac Ware
Isaac Ware (1704—1766) was an English architect and translator of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Jamaican Georgian architecture
Jamaican Georgian architecture is an architectural style that was popular in Jamaica between c. 1750 and c. 1850.
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James Gibbs
James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was a Scottish architect.
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James Paine (architect)
James Paine (1717–1789) was an English architect.
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James Wyatt
James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical and neo-Gothic styles.
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Jeremy Musson
Jeremy Musson (born London, 1965) is an English author, editor and presenter, specialising in British country houses and architecture.
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John Nash (architect)
John Nash (18 January 1752 – 13 May 1835) was one of the foremost British architects of the Georgian and Regency eras, during which he was responsible for the design, in the neoclassical and picturesque styles, of many important areas of London.
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John Ostell
John Ostell (7 August 1813 – 6 April 1892) architect, surveyor and manufacturer, was born in London, England and emigrated to Canada in 1834, where he apprenticed himself to a Montreal surveyor André Trudeau to learn French methods of surveying.
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John Soane
Sir John Soane (né Soan; 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837) was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style.
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John Summerson
Sir John Newenham Summerson (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century.
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John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
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John Wood, the Elder
John Wood, the Elder (1704 – 23 May 1754) was an English architect, working mainly in Bath.
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Julian Bicknell
Julian Bicknell (MA Dip Arch RIBA FRSA AWG) is a British architect.
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Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Derby.
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Limerick
Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.
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Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher
Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 4th Baron Esher CBE (18 July 1913 – 9 July 2004) was a British peer, architect and town-planner.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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Masonry
Masonry is the craft of building a structure with brick, stone, or similar material, including mortar plastering which are often laid in, bound, and pasted together by mortar.
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Matthew Brettingham
Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an 18th-century Englishman who rose from modest origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the best-known architects of his generation.
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Mezzanine
A mezzanine (or in Italian, a mezzanino) is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls.
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Monarchy of the United Kingdom
The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution.
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Montagnana
Montagnana is a town and comune in the province of Padova, in Veneto (northern Italy).
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
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Nave
The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany. Georgian architecture and Neoclassical architecture are 18th-century architectural styles, 19th-century architecture and architectural styles.
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New Town, Edinburgh
The New Town is a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Newtown Pery, Limerick
Newtown Pery is an area of central Limerick, Ireland, and forms the main city centre (or CBD) of the city.
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Nicholas Hawksmoor
Nicholas Hawksmoor (– 25 March 1736) was an English architect.
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Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England (1951–74).
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Nonconformist (Protestantism)
Nonconformists were Protestant Christians who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the state church in England, and in Wales until 1914, the Church of England.
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Objet d'art
In art history, the French term objet d'art describes an ornamental work of art, and the term objets d’art describes a range of works of art, usually small and three-dimensional, made of high-quality materials, and a finely-rendered finish that emphasises the aesthetics of the artefact.
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Old Custom House, Montreal
The Old Custom House (Ancienne-Douane) is a building in what is now Old Montreal, which served as Montreal's first custom house.
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Oxbridge
Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the United Kingdom.
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Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Palladian architecture
Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580). Georgian architecture and Palladian architecture are architectural styles, British architectural styles and house styles.
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Park Crescent, London
Park Crescent is at the north end of Portland Place and south of Marylebone Road in London.
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Pastiche
A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.
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Pediment
Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape.
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Perth, Scotland
Perth (Scottish English:; Peairt) is a centrally located Scottish city, on the banks of the River Tay.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Piano nobile
Piano nobile (Italian for "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the architectural term for the principal floor of a palazzo.
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Pilaster
In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall.
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Plasterer
A plasterer is a tradesman or tradesperson who works with plaster, such as forming a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls.
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Plasterwork
Plasterwork is construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls.
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Porcelain
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between.
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Pulteney Bridge
Pulteney Bridge is a bridge over the River Avon in Bath, England.
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Quinlan Terry
John Quinlan Terry CBE (born 24 July 1937) is a British architect.
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Raymond Erith
Raymond Charles Erith RA FRIBA (7 August 1904 – 30 November 1973) was a leading classical architect in England during the period dominated by the modern movement after the Second World War.
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Real estate development
Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re-lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to others.
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Regency architecture
Regency architecture encompasses classical buildings built in the United Kingdom during the Regency era in the early 19th century when George IV was Prince Regent, and also to earlier and later buildings following the same style. Georgian architecture and Regency architecture are 19th-century architecture and British architectural styles.
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Renaissance architecture
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Georgian architecture and Renaissance architecture are architectural styles.
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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl".
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Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808), was a Welsh politician and nobleman who served as an member of parliament in the British Parliament, representing Petersfield and Liverpool from 1761 to 1790.
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Richard Sammons
Richard Sammons (born May 18, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio) is an American architect, architectural theorist, visiting professor, and chief designer of Fairfax & Sammons Architects with offices in New York City, New York and Palm Beach, Florida.
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Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer.
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Robert Smirke (architect)
Sir Robert Smirke (1 October 1780 – 18 April 1867) was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture, though he also used other architectural styles (such as Gothic and Tudor).
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Robert Smith (architect)
Robert Smith (1722February 11, 1777) was a Scottish-born American architect who was based in Philadelphia and was the architect for some of the city's most prominent early building structures, including Carpenters' Hall, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and the steeple on Christ Church.
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Robert Taylor (architect)
Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) was an English architect and sculptor who worked in London and the south of England.
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Rococo
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Roofline
Roofline is used to describe the fascia, soffits, bargeboards and antefixes that forms the frontage immediately below the roof and the eaves of many homes and buildings.
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Rose Terrace (Perth, Scotland)
Rose Terrace is a street of Georgian architecture in the Scottish city of Perth, Perth and Kinross, dating to at least the late 18th century.
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Salford
Salford is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England.
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Sash window
A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels, or "sashes".
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Semi-detached
A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single-family duplex dwelling that shares one common wall with its neighbour.
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Sermon
A sermon is a religious discourse or oration by a preacher, usually a member of clergy.
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Simon Jenkins
Sir Simon David Jenkins FLSW (born 10 June 1943) is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor.
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Slate industry in Wales
The existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon.
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Somerset House
Somerset House is a large Renaissance complex situated on the south side of the Strand in central London, overlooking the River Thames, just east of Waterloo Bridge.
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St James' Church, Sydney
St James' Church, commonly known as St James', King Street, is an Australian heritage-listed Anglican parish church located at 173 King Street, in the Sydney central business district in New South Wales.
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St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross.
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St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields is a Church of England parish church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London.
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St. Andrew's Church, Chennai
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St. George's Church, Dublin
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Stucco
Stucco or render is a construction material made of aggregates, a binder, and water.
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Suburb
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city.
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Sutton, London
Sutton is a town in the London Borough of Sutton in South London, England.
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Tenement
A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.
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Terraced house
A terrace, terraced house (UK), or townhouse (US) is a kind of medium-density housing that first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. Georgian architecture and terraced house are house styles.
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The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc.
The Center for Palladian Studies in America, Inc. (CPSA) engages in research and other activities relating to the work of architect Andrea Palladio.
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The Georgian Group
The Georgian Group is a British charity, and the national authority on Georgian architecture built between 1700 and 1837 in England and Wales.
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The Grange (Toronto)
The Grange is a historic Georgian manor in downtown Toronto, Ontario.
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.
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Thirteen Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Thomas Archer
Thomas Archer (1668–1743) was an English Baroque architect.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
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United Empire Loyalist
United Empire Loyalist (UEL; or simply Loyalist) is an honorific title which was first given by the 1st Lord Dorchester, the Governor of Quebec and Governor General of the Canadas, to American Loyalists who resettled in British North America during or after the American Revolution.
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University Hall (Harvard University)
University Hall is a white granite building designed by the great early American architect Charles Bulfinch and built by the noted early engineer Loammi Baldwin, Jr. It is located in Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
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Vernacular architecture
Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.
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Victorian architecture
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Georgian architecture and Victorian architecture are American architectural styles and British architectural styles.
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Villa Pisani, Montagnana
The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa outside the city walls of Montagnana, Veneto, northern Italy.
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Vincent Harris
Emanuel Vincent Harris (26 June 1876 – 1 August 1971), often known as E. Vincent Harris, was an English architect who designed several important public buildings in traditional styles.
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Wallpaper
Wallpaper is used in interior decoration to cover the interior walls of domestic and public buildings.
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Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of London.
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Whigs (British political party)
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
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William Buckland (architect)
William Buckland (1734–1774) was a British architect who designed several important buildings in colonial Maryland and Virginia.
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William Chambers (architect)
Sir William Chambers (23 February 1723 – 10 March 1796) was a Swedish-Scottish architect, based in London.
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William Halfpenny
William Halfpenny (active 1723–1755) was an English architect and builder in the first half of the 18th century, and prolific author of builder's pattern books.
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William Kent
William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century.
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William Talman (architect)
William Talman (1650–1719) was an English architect and landscape designer.
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William Wilkins (architect)
William Wilkins (31 August 1778 – 31 August 1839) was an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist.
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Window tax
Window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.
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See also
18th-century architectural styles
- Adam style
- American colonial architecture
- Architecture in early modern Scotland
- Baroque architecture
- Georgian architecture
- Mughal architecture
- Neoclassical architecture
- Ottoman Baroque architecture
- Ottoman architecture
- Rococo architecture
- Tulip Period architecture
British architectural styles
- Black-and-white Revival architecture
- Brutalist architecture
- By-pass Variegated
- Edwardian architecture
- Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles
- Elizabethan architecture
- Georgian architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture
- High Victorian Gothic
- Jacobean architecture
- Jacobethan
- New London Vernacular
- Palazzo style architecture
- Palladian architecture
- Pont Street Dutch
- Queen Anne Revival architecture in the United Kingdom
- Queen Anne style architecture
- Regency architecture
- Romanesque Revival architecture in the United Kingdom
- Stockbroker's Tudor
- Tudor architecture
- Victorian architecture
References
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