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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An architectural style imitating elements of ancient Greek temple design, popular in the United States and Europe in the first half of the 1800s.

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Examples

  • From the Arkansas Arts Center with works by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Rubens to the Old State House Museum, the former Greek Revival state capitol where Clinton first announced his candidacy, to the Historic Arkansas Museum, an outdoor living history museum with costumed reenactors, there's no need to get out your pocketbook.

    Pam Grout: Doing It On The Cheap In Little Rock Pam Grout 2011

  • By the time the Alcotts returned to Boston after the failure of the Germantown school in 1835, the economy was growing, land speculation was feverish, and the city, formally incorporated in 1822, expanded around the new Court House, a Greek Revival building with wide steps and impressive Ionic columns.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • Several glass-roofed arcades were built in North America: a Greek Revival arcade in Providence, Rhode Island, that opened as early as 1829; a block-long arcade in Toronto; an impressive five-story structure in Cleveland; and the Gothic Revival Arcade Building in downtown Saint Louis.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • His father was an architect of private means who designed the Greek Revival family home himself, and decorated it with photographs of great Italian paintings and architecture, and casts of the Parthenon friezes.

    Archive 2009-02-01 EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • His father was an architect of private means who designed the Greek Revival family home himself, and decorated it with photographs of great Italian paintings and architecture, and casts of the Parthenon friezes.

    Fairfield Porter: The Painter as Critic EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • New railroads that intersected in Union Springs had only made the planters richer, as their grand Victorian and Greek Revival homes attested.

    'Condoleezza Rice: An American Life' 2007

  • Downtown Wilmington is lined with colonial, Greek Revival, Victorian, and Italianate beauties.

    150 Cheap Places to Live 2006

  • The Greek Revival building was completed in 1842, before structures were built to sway with quakes; its rigid marble and granite structure is more vulnerable to cracking.

    Cultural Loss in Lower Manhattan 2002

  • Mr. Hopping, a retired real estate agent who is patriarch of an old Bridgehampton family, owns 5.6 acres overlooking Montauk Highway from the corner of Ocean Drive, punctuated by an abandoned Greek Revival – style mansion hidden by overgrown hedges, an empty barn and an old gas station.

    The Battle Over a Barnes & Noble in Bridgehampton 2001

  • Pamela said the house was a Greek Revival, and she was envious of the recessed front door.

    Brooke V.C. Andrews 1998

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