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Article: Athens in America A young democracy, modeling itself on a classical one, built chaste white temples in what it called the Greek Revival style.
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
- Author:
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Robert Campbell is the Globe's architecture critic. Peter
Vanderwarker is a photographer who specializes in urban architecture.
The Greek Revival style in architecture arrived with the force of
a hurricane, sweeping not only Boston but the entire United States
during the years from 1815 to 1850. It quickly became "America's
first national style of architecture," wrote the historian William
Pierson in 1976. When Greek Revival subsided, it left behind some
of Boston's most imposing monuments -- the Faneuil Hall Marketplace,
for starters. But Greek Revival really was a national style. And,
more than that, it was a statement about patriotism.
Before Greek Revival, the United States ...
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