Early National Style

• Greek Revival

  • Characteristics
  • Classical orders
  • Pediments
  • Entablature
• Old Bergen Church

  • In full-length portico

  
• British Museum South Facade

  • By Sir Robert Smirke
  • One of the largest and most comprehensive museum of natural history

  
• Renaissance Revival

  • Characteristics
  • Classical orders
  • Round arches
  • Symmetrical composition
  • Wide overhangs supported by brackets
• Semper Opera House

  • By Gottfried Semper
  • One of the most beautiful opera houses in the world

  
• National Theater

  • By Joseph Zitek
  • Built from the desire of the Czech people for national independence

  
• The Breakers Mansion

  • By Richard Morris Hunt
  • Grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century