FCSarch 20 Georgian & Federal buildings in America

Georgian & Federal

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Williamsburg, Virginia

Williamsburg aerial

College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA c.1700 Sir Christopher Wren (probably)

College of William & Mary, Wren Building plan

College of William & Mary, map

The Brafferton Building, 1723The 1693 charter of the College of William and Mary stipulated that it educate

Native Americans for the church as clergymen or missionaries.

The entrance gate pillars have the lion of England and the unicorn of Scotland carved in imported Portland stone. The complex is surrounded by a brick wall.

The roof with dormers, a deck with a balustrade, and a high cupola.

George Wythe House, by Richard Taliaferro? (c.1750) Georgian Williamsburg

Common Georgian Features

• symmetrical

• central entrance

• rectangular windows

• two chimneys

• hipped roof

• dormer windows

• half-floor below ground

•string course between floors

Mount Pleasant Mansion, (1761) Fairmont Park.

Mount Pleasant. Most elaborate Georgian style Mansion in the colonies. Note: high basement, central pavilion, elaborate window heads, balustrade, quoins, brick

covered in stucco to resemble stone.

British Georgian

Independence Hall (c.1730)

Northwold, Norfolk, VA c.1760

Derby House, Salem , MA (1762) Georgian

Georgian Style 1720 – 1780

Late-Georgian = Federal Style 1780 – c.1830

Key difference aside from dates: Federal style ornamentation is more delicate/more refined

FEDERAL (late-Georgian), “Characterized by balance and symmetry, lightness, and delicacy.”

Congress Hall (1787, next to Independence Hall, c.1730).

Misc. Federal Style houses on Delancy Street

Federal Style furniture

Georgian/Federal Revival on City Avenue

Georgian Revival KFC