NINETEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN NORTH AMERICA

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NINETEENTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN NORTH AMERICA
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Phases of Architecture in North
America Pre-Columbian Architecture Prior to
17th century Early European Settlers Early
Import of European Neo-Classicism Thomas
Jefferson Full Force of Neo-Classicism
Strickland, Furness, McKim Beginning of
Original Work Residential Works of Richardson
and McKim, Louis Sullivan Modern
American Architecture Sullivan, Frank Lloyd
Wright
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Mounds and Palisades, Cahokia (Illinois), 10-12th
c.
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Architecture of the early European
settlers. Early settlers and pilgrims who fled
or arrived from Europe/England, built in a
modest, pragmatic or primitive manner. The use of
logs, thatch and shingles.
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Thomas Jefferson and the introduction of a
principled Classical architecture. Monticello,
Virginia, 1770-1809
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1817
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Massachusetts State House, Boston, 1795 by
Charles Bulfinch
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United States Capitol, Washington DC,
1993-1867 By Benjamin Latrobe (with William
Thornton)
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American Classicism Bank of Pennsylvania, Bank of
United States, Grirard Bank, all in Philadelphia,
mid-19th by William Strickland
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Merchants Exchange, Philadelphia, 1832 by
William Strickland
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Trinity Church, New York, 1839 by Richard Upjohn
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Trinity Church, Boston, 1873 by H.H. Richardson
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Crane Memorial Library, Quincy, 1880 by H.H.
Richardson
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Watts Sherman House Newport, 1874
Stoughton House Cambridge, 1882
The Residences by H.H. Richardson recalled an
American vernacular tradition
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Public Library, Boston, 1887 by McKim, Meade and
White
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Bell House, Newport, 1881 by Charles McKim