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Exploring Greek Revival Architecture: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz explores various aspects of Greek Revival architecture, including key figures, significant buildings, and historical contributions. Test your knowledge and enhance your understanding of this architectural style.

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1 The term was first used by Charles Robert Cockerell in a lecture he gave as Professor of Architecture to the ________ in 1842.

2 In 1823, Samuel Angell discovered the coloured metopes of Temple C at ________, Sicily and published them in 1826.

3 What does the following picture show?  Temple Row at Sailors' Snug Harbor.   A Greek Revival parlor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art   Leo von Klenze's Walhalla, Regensburg, Bavaria, 1842.   Design for Oravais Church, Finland; watercolour by Jacob Rijf, 1792

4 What does the following picture show?  Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.   Leo von Klenze's Walhalla, Regensburg, Bavaria, 1842.   Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, 1824.   Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, 1824.

5 This revelation was a direct contradiction of ________’s notion of the Greek temple as timeless, fixed, and pure in its whiteness.

6 What does the following picture show?  Forks of Cypress by William Nichols, Lauderdale County, Alabama, shaded by its peripteral Ionic colonnades (burned 1966)   Hittorff's reconstruction of Temple B at Selinus, 1851.   Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, 1824.   Thomas Hamilton's design for the Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1831, RSA.

7 What does the following picture show?  Leo von Klenze's Walhalla, Regensburg, Bavaria, 1842.   Thomas Hamilton's design for the Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1831, RSA.   Thomas Hamilton's design for the Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1831, RSA.   Hittorff's reconstruction of Temple B at Selinus, 1851.

8 In 1803, he appointed ________ as surveyor of public building in the United States.

9 It was to be William Wilkins's winning design for the public competition for ________ that announced the Greek style was to be the dominant idiom in architecture.

10 ________ The American Builder's Companion 1806

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Second Baptist Church is the only Greek Revival church remaining in Poughkeepsie, New York.
  • the Hoornbeek Store Complex in Napanoch, New York reflects the transition from the Federal style to Greek Revival in American architecture.
  • the Vintners Parrot pub in Worthing, West Sussex, occupies a Grade II-listed Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises and a Grade II-listed former Methodist chapel.
  • the Walter Brewster House is the only Greek Revival home with a two-story colonnade in Putnam County, New York.
  • the former Farmer's and Manufacturer's Bank (pictured) is the only commercial Greek Revival building in Poughkeepsie.
  • the Dutch Reformed Church (pictured), a Greek Revival building in Newburgh, New York that has been declared a National Historic Landmark, is considered the latest extant work of architect Alexander Jackson Davis that still largely reflects his original vision.
  • the Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road, in Junius, New York was built with walls of field cobbles and limestone quoins in the Greek Revival style.
  • the 1835 Greek Revival Cannon Building (pictured) in Troy, New York was rebuilt with a mansard roof after several fires in the 1870s.
  • the 1864 Banning House (pictured) reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture in the west".
  • the Butterfield Cobblestone House, considered the finest Greek Revival building in Orleans County, New York, is the only cobblestone building in Clarendon.
  • the C. Burton Hotel may be the only Greek Revival building in Sullivan County, New York, with a recessed porch and columns.
  • Jasper Cropsey may have helped design the Jacob Sloat House (pictured) in Sloatsburg, New York, which combines the Greek Revival and Picturesque architectural styles.
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