Empire architecture

Victorian house, Second Empire (1855-1885). Roof shapes, dormers and window surrounds, cornices, and elaborations.

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Zwinger Palace was built in Dresden, the capital of Saxony, during the reign of Augustus the Strong in the year 1709, and has been famous ...

We are pleased to link to Christine G.H. Franck’s website, where she has a great list of historic American house styles illustrated by her own sketches, as shown here. An excerpt from …

Victorian Architecture. This house was much smaller until 1878 and bought by John & Mary Gill Later head of the James Smart MFG Co He Renovated it adding Mansard Roof and extra Wings Transferring into a Second Empire Style. Gill's grandson former mayer John Gill Broome and his wife Valerie became owners in 1957 and the house remains in the family 4

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E:The creators of the Empire style were... French architects Charles Percier and Pierre François Louis Fontaine. They designed the furniture and decor of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They issued the "Palais maisons et autres edifices de Rome moderne" (1802, Paris) and "Residences des souverains" (1833, Paris) in which it concluded assumptions style. Empire was modeled on the architectural elements of Roman, Greek and Egyptian. For the style it was characteristic of symmetry, monumentality…

Second Empire architecture is among the most popular styles that can be found throughout Cabbagetown and in many other districts of Toronto. Originally introduced at the end of the 19th century, many

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You'd be hard pressed to conjure up a more perfect example of the Victorian Second Empire style than this exuberant, mansard-roofed confection of a house in Rhinebeck, N.Y.