Styles and Movements

Georgian Architecture

Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical Architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given to the family of classical building styles current in Britain and its colonies between 1714 and 1830, spanning the reigns in continuous succession of the four Hanoverian King Georges. It is defined chiefly by its classicism, expressed in facades using classical pilasters, pedimented doors and windows and graceful moldings, most visibly in the uniform, symmetrical terraces of townhouses that still line entire squares in cities such as London, Bath, Edinburgh and Dublin. The Georgian era was a relatively peaceful and prosperous period in Britain that saw a marked increase in building of every kind, from grand country houses and villas to industrial and civic structures and designed landscape parks, most of it worked in the classical idiom. Many Georgian buildings and streetscapes are protected today as listed buildings or within conservation areas because of the coherence and quality of the classical urban fabric they created.

Facts

Period

1714 to 1830 1

Origin Region

Britain 1

Georgian Architecture

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Regional Tradition

Period

Group

Origin Region

Federal Architecture

Georgian Architecture

Connections

Influenced

Colonial Revival Architecture

American Colonial Revival, beginning around the 1876 centennial, explicitly revived the symmetrical facades and detailing of British colonial Georgian architecture.

Federal Architecture

The post-independence American Federal style is a direct regional development from British Georgian architecture.

Influenced By

Palladian Architecture

British Georgian architecture, especially the early to mid eighteenth century, is heavily Palladian in derivation.

Notable Examples

Abingdon (plantation)

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Alston-DeGraffenried Plantation

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Amelung House and Glassworks

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Ampthill (Chesterfield County, Virginia)

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Archibald Smith Plantation Home

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Arnold Potter House

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Ash Grove (plantation)

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Belair Mansion

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Belmont Estate

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Belvoir (plantation)

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Berkeley Plantation

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Black Walnut (Clover, Virginia)

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Blandfield

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Bohemia Farm

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Butler House, Kilkenny

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Carter Hall (Millwood, Virginia)

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Castlemartin House and Estate

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Chatham Manor

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Chericoke

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Christian Allemong House

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Claymont Court

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Clermont (Alexandria, Virginia)

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Clifton (Hamilton, Virginia)

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Clinton House (Poughkeepsie, New York)

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Colross

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Corotoman

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Dodon (farm)

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Dublin City Hall

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DuPont-Guest Estate

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Edmund Ruffin Plantation

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Edmund Wilson House

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Edward Harden Mansion

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Edward Mooney House

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Elsing Green

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Endview Plantation

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Eppington

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Fairview (Delaware City, Delaware)

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Fancy Farm (Bedford, Virginia)

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Ford Mansion

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Frascati (Somerset, Virginia)

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Frey House

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Gen. Jacob Brown Mansion

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Greenway Plantation

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Gunston Hall

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Hampton Plantation

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Harewood (West Virginia)

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Harrietta Plantation

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Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire

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Hildene

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Historic Locust Grove

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Source Wikipedia

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1. Wikipedia

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_architecture, lead section (start year)
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_architecture, lead section (end year)
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_architecture, lead section, monarchs sentence
It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover, George I, George II, George III, and George IV, who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830.