COLONIAL REVIVAL AND CLASSICAL REVIVAL BROADWAY ARCHITECTURE

Broadway’s largest period of development was during the time that architectural preferences were transitioning from Victorian opulence into the “trendy” styles of Colonial and Classical Revival architecture. The Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 greatly influenced this move into the clean, classical and symmetrical lines of Colonial Revival architecture. The Broadway neighborhood is a laboratory of this transition between the two styles. The Queen Anne architecture tends to be a little classic, while the Colonial Revival architecture often portrays some of the irregular and over-the-top details common to the Queen Anne period. But, there are also several homes that are textbook examples of Classical Revival and Colonial Revival architecture. Welcome to this tour of 13 homes that takes architecture back not only 100 years, but also nods to ancient Greece and our country’s Colonial period.

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