Colonial Revival architecture

Philadelphia Centennial of 1876 is the origin starting point for a rebirth of the colonial architectural heritage of America and the early English and Dutch houses of the Atlantic seaboard. The increasing popularity of colonial influences on contemporary architecture motivated a highly publicized tour of a group of architects in 1877 who observed and recorded Georgian and Federal houses of New England. The simplicity of colonial designs and honest use of materials with more economical plans than the recently

Colonial architecture is a combination architectural style of a country that has been adapted from the other countries characteristics, methods and influences. The colonists built settlements and create hybrid designs that include their countries of origin with the design styles. Europeans came to Southeast Asia during 16th century. The colonial vision was effectively imposed

a contemporary, university-oriented city in response to the development of Mississippi A&M College (later Mississippi State University) in the 1930s. The district is also the largest and most complete concentration of significant 1930s suburban architecture in the county. The significant period starts in 1932 and ends in 1940 when the last pre-war house was constructed. Nash Street is Starkville’s first subdivision, 61 subdivisions have been listed at the Courthouse from 1934-1974. The Nash Street

When you step into my room, the first thing you will notice is the golden afternoon sunlight fluttering in and dancing around because of the large sycamore trees outside my window. The window is fairly large, as my house is a Cape Cod style home. The reason for the window being so large is that it is one of the primary dormer windows on the second floor that front the street. The window is also set in alcove that is approximately two feet deep, and is framed with white wooden shutters on both sides

auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.” America wouldn’t have prospered into the powerful confederacy Van Buren describes it to be without the values and ideas of America’s colonial past. America’s present is best understood to be based upon British culture and government. However, colonists fought for freedom from the suffocating British throne, they tolerated religious freedom, and their government was founded on republican

He describes the colonial economy as more rapidly growing and complex than any other economy in this time period. He states that the economy was incredibly competitive, but that the gap between the rich and the poor accelerated more rapidly in prerevolutionary America than

Pre-Modern Colonial America In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordan S. Wood creates an in-depth analysis of why colonial America could be classified as a pre-modern society. He presents a thorough argument for how hierarchal trends and patriarchal dependency of the colonists emphasized the more traditional culture of the early Americans. The colonists had created a society in which there was a deep prevalence for British customs, such as, reverence for the king, the inheritance of land

Bio: Martin Wittfooth Martin Wittfooth born in 1981 in Toronto, Canada. Although he spent most of his childhood in Finland before moving back to Canada as a teenager and later in his mid-twenties moving to New York. In a recent, WOWxWOW, interview Martin expresses that he drew his inspiration for his artistic style from Northern European like Arnold Bocklin and Akseli Gallen-kallela, Anders Zorn, and Jon Bauer. Furthermore, he attended Sherdian College for his BAA and his MFA in York School of Visual

economic, and governmental institutions of Colonial American society, and considers the era to be pre-modern because of its strong focus on monarchy, hierarchy, and patriarchy. The colonial world in America was “traditional in its basic social relationships and in its cultural society.” (Wood 11). Wood even suggests that, “in some respects colonial society was more traditional than that of the mother country” (12). With the concept of the traditionalism of the colonial world, Wood declares the era to be

Whatever is new, Is bad : Historical Perspectives on the Colonial Revival in Progressive Era America The Colonial Revival is a phenomenon that materialized as a national expression of American culture from the 1870s to the 1940s. Though founded on ideological traditions, it most often manifested itself through decorative arts and architecture. Elements of revival furniture, arts and architecture symbolically served as tools to promote democracy, patriotism most significantly in this context