Georgian Style HomeThe wealthy began building the Georgian Style Home fashioned from the new trends of London England during the reign of King George I, hence "Georgian". The works of a well known European architect, Andrea Palladio inspired architects Indigo Jones, Christopher Wren, and other English architects to design what would become the new Georgian Style craze. New England's Georgian Colonial homes were built somewhat smaller and had less ornamentation than the Southern Georgian Style Home due to the puritan influence and a more even distribution of wealth for New England's Colonists. The southern states had a far different way to disperse its money. The land owners became very wealthy aristocrats and built huge mansions with great ornamentation that would be the envy of England. After the American Revolution, Georgian style became quite the popular fad in the newly formed United States. With the routine Ocean-Atlantic travels to and from England... ...home design "pattern books", now known as home plan books, from several prominent English architects became plentiful in America. Common Georgian features may include:
Georgian House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book http://www.stratfordhall.org/architect/georgian.htm **** __________________________________ E-mail:
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Became More Cubic rather than Rectangular to allow for additional
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