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American Renaissance

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In the history of American architecture and the arts, the American Renaissance was the period from 1876 to 1917 characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism. [1]

81 relations: Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue), Alex Nowrasteh, Architecture of Atlanta, Arthur Versluis, Audubon Terrace, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Barking Irons, Bayard–Condict Building, Bergen County Court House, Cable Building (New York City), Carolands, Carrère and Hastings, Charles A. Platt, Charles Follen McKim, Chicago Union Station, Clatsop County Courthouse, Daniel Chester French, Edward Simmons (painter), Essex County Courthouse, First National Bank of Hood River, George B. Post, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Heins & LaFarge, Hill Hotel (Portland, Oregon), Historicism (art), History of modern period domes, History of the United States (1865–1918), Hudson River Historic District, James Riely Gordon, John A. Wilson (sculptor), John Russell Pope, Johnson Hall (Eugene, Oregon), Joy Wheeler Dow, Kevin Hassett, Lee H. Letts, Lincoln Chafee, Lincoln Hall (Portland, Oregon), List of architectural styles, Lyme Art Association, Maitland Armstrong, McLean County Courthouse and Square, McLean County Museum of History, Mises Institute, Morrow County Courthouse (Oregon), National Register of Historic Places listings in Crook County, Oregon, Neo-Grec, Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassicism, New Jersey State House, Old First National Bank of Prineville, ..., Old Garfield School (Salem, Oregon), Osborne Apartments, Our Lady of Esperanza Church, Outline of the Renaissance, Paweł Jędrzejko, Pedimental sculptures in the United States, Periodization, Renaissance (disambiguation), Roman Bronze Works, Samuel T. Francis, San Francisco City Hall, Sleepy Hollow Country Club, SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford White, The Hyde Collection, The Occidental Quarterly, The Right Stuff (blog), Thomas Jefferson Building, Timeline of architectural styles, Timeline of architectural styles 1750–1900, Topiary, United States National Bank Building, Vanderbilt houses, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Vernon Court, Washington Union Station, William Adams Delano, Willoughby J. Edbrooke, World's Columbian Exposition, 927 Fifth Avenue. Expand index (31 more) »

Abraham Lincoln (1920 statue)

Abraham Lincoln (1920) is a colossal seated figure of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers.

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Alex Nowrasteh

Alexander "Alex" Nowrasteh is an analyst of immigration policy currently working at the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank located in Washington D.C. Nowrasteh is an advocate of freer migration to the United States.

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Architecture of Atlanta

The architecture of Atlanta is marked by a confluence of classical, modernist, post-modernist, and contemporary architectural styles.

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Arthur Versluis

Arthur Versluis (born 1959) is a professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University.

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Audubon Terrace

Audubon Terrace, also known as the Audubon Terrace Historic District, is a landmark complex of eight early-20th century Beaux Arts/American Renaissance buildings located on the west side of Broadway, bounded by West 155th and West 156th Streets, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance".

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Barking Irons

Barking Irons is a design company based on the Bowery in New York City, specializing in casual-contemporary apparel inspired by American folklore and storytelling.

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Bayard–Condict Building

The Bayard–Condict Building at 65 Bleecker Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, at the head of Crosby Street in the NoHo neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York City is the only work of architect Louis Sullivan in New York City.

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Bergen County Court House

Bergen County, New Jersey had a series of court houses.

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Cable Building (New York City)

The Cable Building is located at 611 Broadway at the northwest corner with Houston Street in NoHo and Greenwich Village, in Manhattan, New York City.

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Carolands

Carolands Chateau is a; 4.5 floor, 98 room mansion on in Hillsborough, California.

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Carrère and Hastings

Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère (November 9, 1858 – March 1, 1911) and Thomas Hastings (March 11, 1860 – October 22, 1929), was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture firms in the United States.

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Charles A. Platt

Charles Adams Platt (October 16, 1861 – September 12, 1933) was a prominent American artist, landscape gardener, landscape designer, and architect of the "American Renaissance" movement.

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Charles Follen McKim

Charles Follen McKim (August 24, 1847 – September 14, 1909) was an American Beaux-Arts architect of the late 19th century.

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Chicago Union Station

Chicago Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, replacing an earlier station built in 1881.

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Clatsop County Courthouse

The Clatsop County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon, United States.

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Daniel Chester French

Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931), one of the most prolific and acclaimed American sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is best known for his design of the monumental work the statue of Abraham Lincoln (1920) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC.

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Edward Simmons (painter)

Edward Emerson Simmons (October 27, 1852 – November 17, 1931) was an American Impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work.

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Essex County Courthouse

The Essex County Courthouse is located in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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First National Bank of Hood River

The First National Bank of Hood River is a historic bank building located in downtown Hood River, Oregon, United States.

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George B. Post

George Browne Post (December 15, 1837 – November 28, 1913) was an American architect trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition.

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Gorham Manufacturing Company

The Gorham Manufacturing Company is one of the largest American manufacturers of sterling and silverplate and a foundry for bronze sculpture.

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Heins & LaFarge

Heins & LaFarge was a New York-based architectural firm composed of the Philadelphia-born architect George Lewis Heins (1860–1907) and Christopher Grant LaFarge (1862–1938), the eldest son of the artist John La Farge.

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Hill Hotel (Portland, Oregon)

The Hill Hotel is a historic former hotel located in Portland, Oregon, United States, built in 1904.

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Historicism (art)

Historicism or also historism (Historismus) comprises artistic styles that draw their inspiration from recreating historic styles or imitating the work of historic artisans.

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History of modern period domes

Domes built in the 19th and 20th centuries benefited from more efficient techniques for producing iron and steel as well as advances in structural analysis.

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History of the United States (1865–1918)

The history of the United States from 1865 until 1918 covers the Reconstruction Era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States.

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Hudson River Historic District

The Hudson River Historic District, also known as Hudson River Heritage Historic District, is the largest such district on the mainland of the contiguous United States.

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James Riely Gordon

James Riely Gordon (August 2, 1863 – March 16, 1937) was an architect who practiced in San Antonio until 1902 and then in New York City, where he established a national reputation.

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John A. Wilson (sculptor)

John Albert Wilson (1877–1954) was a Nova Scotian sculptor who produced public art for commissions throughout North America.

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John Russell Pope

John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing of the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941), all in Washington, DC.

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Johnson Hall (Eugene, Oregon)

Johnson Hall, located in Eugene, Oregon, is the main administration building of the University of Oregon.

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Joy Wheeler Dow

Joy Wheeler Dow (January 13, 1860 – February 7, 1937) was an American self-taught architect, artist and author.

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Kevin Hassett

Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist and the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

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Lee H. Letts

Lee Harold Letts (born 1951), American artist, sculptor, painter and goldsmith, is primarily known for his bronze sculptures of birds and animals.

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Lincoln Chafee

Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) is an American politician from the state of Rhode Island.

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Lincoln Hall (Portland, Oregon)

Lincoln Hall is an historic building located in Portland, Oregon, built in 1912.

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List of architectural styles

An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable and historically identifiable.

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Lyme Art Association

Lyme Art Association (LAA) is a non-profit art organization established in 1914, with roots going back to 1902.

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Maitland Armstrong

David Maitland Armstrong (April 15, 1836Armstrong, Maitland. Margaret Armstrong (Ed.) (1920) New York: Scribner, p. 157.May 26, 1918) was Charge d'Affaires to the Papal States (1869), American Consul in Rome (186971), and Consul General in Rome (187173).

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McLean County Courthouse and Square

The McLean County Courthouse and Square is located in downtown Bloomington, Illinois.

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McLean County Museum of History

The McLean County Museum of History is an AAM accredited List of Accredited Museums institution located in Bloomington, Illinois.

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Mises Institute

The Mises Institute, short name for Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, is a tax-exempt educative organization located in Auburn, Alabama, United States.

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Morrow County Courthouse (Oregon)

The Morrow County Courthouse is a building in Heppner in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Crook County, Oregon

Crook County.

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Neo-Grec

Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III (1852–1870).

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism (from Greek νέος nèos, "new" and Latin classicus, "of the highest rank") is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.

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New Jersey State House

The New Jersey State House is located in Trenton and is the capitol building for the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Old First National Bank of Prineville

The Old First National Bank of Prineville is a historic commercial building in Prineville, Oregon, United States.

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Old Garfield School (Salem, Oregon)

The Garfield School is a former schoolhouse near downtown Salem, Oregon.

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Osborne Apartments

The Osborne is a historic apartment building located at 205 West 57th Street at the corner of Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

The Church of Our Lady of Esperanza is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 624 West 156th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City.

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Outline of the Renaissance

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Renaissance: Renaissance – cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe.

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Paweł Jędrzejko

Paweł Jędrzejko (born June 27, 1970 in Katowice, Poland) – a literary scholar and an Americanist, translation studies scholar, musician and yachtsman.

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Pedimental sculptures in the United States

Pedimental sculptures in the United States – sculptures within the frame of a pediment on the exterior of a building.

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Periodization

Periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of timeAdam Rabinowitz.

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Renaissance (disambiguation)

The Renaissance was a European cultural movement spanning the 14th to the 17th century.

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Roman Bronze Works

Roman Bronze Works, now operated as Roman Bronze Studios, is a bronze foundry in New York City.

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Samuel T. Francis

Samuel Todd Francis (April 29, 1947 – February 15, 2005), known as Sam Francis, was an American white nationalist, writer and syndicated columnist in the United States.

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San Francisco City Hall

San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California.

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Sleepy Hollow Country Club

Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a historic country club in Scarborough-on-Hudson in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

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SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens

SS Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II.

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Stanford Memorial Church

Stanford Memorial Church (also referred to informally as MemChu) is located on the Main Quad at the center of the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States.

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Stanford White

Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms.

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The Hyde Collection

The Hyde Collection is an art museum in the city of Glens Falls in Upstate New York.

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The Occidental Quarterly

The Occidental Quarterly is an American magazine published by the Charles Martel Society.

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The Right Stuff (blog)

The Right Stuff is a white nationalist, Neo-Nazi blog founded by Mike Peinovich that hosts several podcasts, including The Daily Shoah. The blog is best known for popularizing the use of "echoes", an antisemitic marker which uses triple parentheses around names used to identify Jews and people of the Jewish faith on social media.

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Thomas Jefferson Building

The oldest of the three United States Library of Congress buildings, the Thomas Jefferson Building was built between 1890 and 1897.

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Timeline of architectural styles

This timeline shows the periods of various styles of architecture in a graphical fashion.

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Timeline of architectural styles 1750–1900

DateFormat.

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Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.

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United States National Bank Building

The United States National Bank Building in downtown Portland, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Vanderbilt houses

From the late 1870s to the 1920s, the Vanderbilt family employed some of the United States's best Beaux-Arts architects and decorators to build an unequalled string of New York townhouses and East Coast palaces in the United States.

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Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is a historic house museum in Hyde Park, New York.

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Vernon Court

Vernon Court is an American Renaissance mansion designed by architects Carrère and Hastings.

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Washington Union Station

Washington Union Station is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters and the railroad's second-busiest station with annual ridership of just under 5 million.

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William Adams Delano

William Adams Delano (January 21, 1874 – January 12, 1960), an American architect, was a partner with Chester Holmes Aldrich in the firm of Delano & Aldrich.

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Willoughby J. Edbrooke

Willoughby James Edbrooke (1843–1896) was an American architect and a bureaucrat who remained faithful to a Richardsonian Romanesque style into the era of Beaux-Arts architecture in the United States, supported by commissions from conservative federal and state governments that were spurred by his stint in 1891-92 as Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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927 Fifth Avenue

927 Fifth Avenue is an upscale residential apartment building in Manhattan, New York City, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Renaissance

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