Colonial Awakening (also Neocolonial , Georgia Awakening or Neo-Georgia ) architecture and is a national design movement in the United States and Canada. Part of a wider Colonial Awakening Movement that includes Georgian and Neoclassical styles, seeks to revive elements of architectural style, garden design, and interior design of American colonial architecture.
The Hundred Year 1876 Exhibition revived the Americans into their past in the colonial period. This movement gained momentum in the 1890s and accelerated in the early 20th century because of the invention of cars, which expanded the ability of ordinary Americans to visit sites linked to their heritage.
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History
The successive waves of revival of British colonial architecture have swept the United States since 1876. In the 19th century, Colonial Revival took a formal style. Public interest in the Colonial Revival style of the early 20th century helped popularize Wallace Nutting's books and photographs showing New England's landscape. Historic places like Colonial Williamsburg helped expand the exposure in the 1930s.
In the post-World War II era, the Colonial design elements were combined with the popular ranch-style house design. At the beginning of the 21st century, certain regions of the United States embraced aspects of the Anglo-Caribbean and the British Empire.
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Specify characteristics
The Colonial Awakening sought to follow the colonial architecture of America in the period around the Revolutionary War, which is very interesting from Georgian architecture in the United Kingdom.
The structure is usually two floors with a ridge pole that runs parallel to the road, has a symmetrical front facade with accented door, and windows with equal distance on both sides.
Features borrowed from colonial period homes in the early 19th century included intricate front doors, often with decorative crowns, fan lights, and crevices, symmetrical windows flanking the front door, often in pairs or in three-tiered floors, and the verandah lined up.
See also
- The Colonial Revival Garden
- Dutch Colonial Revival Architecture
- Revival Style Mission Architecture
- New Classic Architecture
- Spanish Colonial Revival Architecture
Further reading
- A. Axelrod, The Colonial Awakening in America , 1985.
- William Butler, Other City on the Hill: Litchfield, Connecticut, and the Colonial Awakening
- Karal Ann Marling, George Washington Slept Here: The Rise of Colonial and American Culture, 1876-1986 , 1988.
- Richard Guy Wilson and Noah Sheldon, The Colonial Revival House , 2004.
- Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, Recreating American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival , 2006.
External links
- Photo Gallery Resurrection House Colonial
- Example of a Colonial Revival in Buffalo, New York
- Centennial 1876 Information
- Colonial Style House Raises Tradition - Patriotic
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