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Greek Revival was a style of classical architecture which became fashionable in Europe in the 18th century, and in the United Kingdom and United States in the early 19th century. It rebelled against the fussy Palladian style (after Andrea Palladio), which was based upon classical Italian styles and relied for its beauty on the form and proportions of ancient Greek temples.

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	From the 1820s until the Civil War, Greek Revival was a one-style-fits-all building design choice of rich and poor, in town and country, North and South, from the Atlantic Ocean to the new Midwest and around the Cape to California.
	The most familiar characteristic of the Greek Revival roofline, however, was a deep frieze, often undecorated except perhaps for a row of the distinctive Greek triglyph and metope ornament.
	The Greek Revival was, as its early proponents claimed, America's first truly national style, and it dominated the era of Manifest Destiny.

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	Greek Revival upheld the form of Royal Ascot's Norfolk...
	Architecture: Modern tragedy of a Greek Revival: The Royal High School in Edinburgh, a Neo-Classical masterpiece, is threatened with redevelopment.
	The Greek Revival masterpiece of the 1820s, which was designed...

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