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The "Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham Park in Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to chinoiserie, as a dream vision of fanciful whimsy, not meant to be taken seriously; however, as early as 1826, Edward Blore used Islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for ...
Moorish Revival architecture in New York (state) (1 C, 4 P) Moorish Revival architecture in North Carolina (1 P) O. Moorish Revival architecture in Ohio (3 P) P.
Moorish Revival architecture in Washington, D.C. (3 P) Pages in category "Moorish Revival architecture in the United States" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
[2]: 243–245 In the 19th century and after, the Moorish style was frequently imitated in the form of Neo-Moorish or Moorish Revival architecture in Europe and America, [19] including Neo-Mudéjar in Spain. [20] Some scholarly references associate the term "Moorish" or "Moorish style" more narrowly with this 19th-century trend in Western ...
The many stained glass windows of the church, depicting Jesuit saints, are among the finer in America. They are seen when facing back towards the entrance. The interior also is furnished with religious paintings and murals. The pews are made of cast iron, with Moorish tracery, rosettes, and designs particularly symbolic of scriptural references.
Dome on Mooers House. The Victorian era house combines elements of Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque and Moorish Revival architectural styles.. In their book, "An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles," authors David Gebhard and Robert Winter note that the home's overall design is in the Queen Anne style, though are also elements of Richardsonian Romanesque (the two pairs of small columns ...
The Columbian Exposition also reflected the rise of American landscape architecture and city planning. Notable were the works of Frederick Law Olmsted , an already-prominent and prolific landscape architect who had designed the Midway Plaisance of the 1893 Exhibition, having previously designed New York's Central Park in the 1850s, the layout ...
Moderne architecture in the United States by state (28 C) Modernist architecture in the United States by state (51 C) Moorish Revival architecture in the United States by state (31 C)