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Exploring Architectural Styles Through History

A quiz designed to test your knowledge of various architectural styles and their historical contexts.

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1 ________ 450s-1066 England and Wales

2 ________ 1837 and 1901 UK

3 ________ 1870–1910s UK & USA

4 ________ 776 BC-265 BC

5 ________ 1693 earthquake–c.1745

6 ________ 1933-1944 Germany

7 ________ 1933–1955 USSR

8 ________ c.1350–c.1550

9 ________ 1693 earthquake–c.1745

10 In architectural history, the study of ________, for instance, would include all aspects of the cultural context that went into the design and construction of these structures.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Stephen Storm House in Claverack, New York, combines urban and rural applications of the Federal architectural style.
  • the Neo-Renaissance architectural style encompasses such dissimilar structures as the Opera Garnier and Hôtel de Ville in Paris, the National Theatre in Prague, the Reichstag in Berlin, Mentmore Towers near London, Vladimir Palace in Saint Petersburg, and the Public Library in Boston.
  • the Hoornbeek Store Complex in Napanoch, New York reflects the transition from the Federal style to Greek Revival in American architecture.
  • the Dunning House (pictured) in Wawayanda, New York, has features from several different 19th-century architectural styles.
  • the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House (pictured) was renovated in different styles to depict the evolution of the oldest house in Newport, Rhode Island.
  • the elliptical arched windows on the six houses at 208–218 East 78th Street (pictured) in Manhattan are unusual for the Italianate architectural style of the era.
  • the main house at Brykill Farms in Gardiner, New York, was expanded in a similar style and material 200 years after the first section was built.
  • the four rooms on the first floor of Hiddenhurst outside Millerton, New York, are decorated in different architectural styles.
  • the farmhouse (pictured) at Lynfeld in Washington, New York, is built in a rough "C" shape, an unusual configuration for an Italianate-style building.
  • the Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California, an area of just one square block, contains buildings of six different architectural styles.
  • 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.
  • Brookbound is one of the few Second Empire-style buildings in the Claverack, New York, area.
  • buildings in Kuala Lumpur have Mughal, Tudor, Neo-Gothic or Spanish architectural styles modified to use local resources and for the climate of Malaysia.
  • Washington Irving's church, Christ Episcopal (pictured) in Tarrytown, New York, was one of the first in the U.S. built in the Gothic Revival style.
  • artist and hotelier Emile Brunel's studio in Boiceville, New York, is an imitation of a European farmhouse, an unusual style in the Catskills.
  • one architectural style of 18th-century Spanish Baroque was named after a candy made from egg whites and sugar.
  • the Bain Commercial Building is the only intact Second Empire-style building in Wappingers Falls, New York.
  • the Delmar post office is the only one of the 13 in New York designed by Louis Simon in the Colonial Revival style without a cupola.
  • owing to its early dominance as a building style, Canadian Gothic Revival (example pictured) has been promoted as part of Canadian nationalism.
  • 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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