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	One of the most frequently produced and enduring popular styles in America is the Colonial Revival style (1880 - 1960). It can be seen in a seemingly endless variety of forms throughout the country and still continues to influence residential architecture today.		One of the most frequently produced and enduring popular styles in America is the Colonial Revival style (1880 - 1960). It can be seen in a seemingly endless variety of forms throughout the country and still continues to influence residential architecture today.
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One of the most frequently produced and enduring popular styles in America is the Colonial Revival style (1880 - 1960). It can be seen in a seemingly endless variety of forms throughout the country and still continues to influence residential architecture today.

The Colonial Revival style was an effort to look back to the Federal and Georgian architecture of America's founding period for design inspiration. Less commonly, the Post-Medieval English and Dutch Colonial house forms were an influence on the Colonial Revival style.

Like most revival efforts, the Colonial Revival style did not generally produce true copies of earlier styles. Although, in the early years of the 20th century (1915-1935) there was a real interest in studying and duplicating Georgian period architecture. Generally, the Colonial Revival style took certain design elements - front façade symmetry, front entrance fanlights and sidelights, pedimented doorways, porches and dormers - and applied them to larger scale buildings. These Colonial-era details could be combined in a great variety of ways, creating many sub-types within this style.

In the 1940s and 1950s, a more simplified version of the Colonial Revival style became popular for homes, usually featuring a two-storey building, a side-gabled or hipped roof, classically inspired door surrounds and windows, shutters and dormers.

Less common are examples of the Dutch Colonial Revival which are distinguished by a gambrel roof, and sometimes a shallow pent roof over the first floor. Likewise, there are fewer examples of the Colonial Revival style with a second story overhang inspired by the form of post-medieval English buildings.

The Colonial Revival style was also popular for public buildings, applying common achitectural details of the style to a larger form. Colonial Revival public buildings include government offices, post offices, libraries, banks, schools and churches.

Identifiable features:

* Columned porch or portico.
* Front door sidelights.
* Pedimented door, windows or dormers.
* Broken pediment over front door.
* Pilasters.
* Symmetrical facade.
* Double-hung windows, often multi-paned.
* Bay windows or paired or triple windows.
* Wood shutters often with incised patterns.
* Decorative pendants.
* Side gabled or hipped roofs.
* Cornice with dentils or modillions.

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= Find out more =

=== Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki ===

* Architectural styles.
* Beaux Arts style.
* Chateauesque style.
* Classical Revival style.
* Gothic revival style.
* Italian Renaissance revival style.
* Spanish Colonial revival style.
* Tudor revival style.

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