Category:Federal architecture
English: Federal-style architecture is the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, particularly from 1785 to 1815. In the early Republic the founding generation consciously chose to associate the nation with the ancient democracies of Greece and the republican values of Rome. Grecian aspirations informed the Greek Revival, lasting into the 1850s. Using Roman architectural vocabulary, the Federal style applied to the balanced and symmetrical version of Georgian architecture that had been practiced in the American colonies new motifs of Neoclassical architecture as it was epitomized in Britain by Robert Adam, who published his designs in 1792.The classicizing manner of constructions and town planning undertaken by the federal government was expressed in federal projects of lighthouses and harbor buildings, hospitals and the rationalizing urbanistic layout of L'Enfant's Washington DC and in New York the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.
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Media in category "Federal architecture"
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- Confirmation -1989 20190309 105747.jpg 4,032 × 3,024; 2.58 MB
- Confirmation 20190309 1.jpg 4,032 × 3,024; 7.27 MB
- Courtyard of the Thurgood Marshall Building.jpg 1,440 × 960; 301 KB
- David Crawford House Nov2022.jpg 4,689 × 3,517; 3.56 MB
- Embroidered Sampler MET 203875.jpg 631 × 492; 85 KB
- Junction of Goshen and Providence Roads.png 2,350 × 2,350; 8.22 MB
- PENNROSE RITTENHOUSE CORNERSTONE MCMXXVII DULY AND TRULY LAID 3.jpg 3,024 × 4,032; 3.09 MB