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American Architecture - MSN Encarta (1663 words) |
 | Compared with the architecture in many areas of Europe and in other parts of the world, the architecture of the United States developed with remarkable uniformity. |
| It was a period labeled The Gilded Age by writer Mark Twain, and colorful and exuberant displays in architecture characterized it. |
| High Victorian Gothic architecture, inspired by contemporary work in England and by the critical writing of John Ruskin, appealed to an American desire for more picturesque variety in building styles. |
| Architecture (1351 words) |
| Cemeteries throughout the country are adorned with Egyptian architecture, ranging from the massive Egyptian arch spanning the entrance of the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven |
| Classical architecture draws on the Golden age of Athens and the Roman Republic, the ancient ancestors of the American Republic. |
| Architectural styling made the monuments in these cemeteries as pleasing to the eye as the landscape. |
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