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Period Eclectic Revivals
A
variety of eclectic styles became popular around the turn of the century
and, as in the Neoclassical style, the buildings are characterized by
the somewhat free application of carefully studied detail. The diverse
styles of these buildings usually bore apt titles such as Tudor, Italian
Renaissance, and Spanish. That period houses reached a high point of
popularity during the 1920s has been attributed in part to servicemen who,
upon returning from World War I, wished to pattern their own houses after
the picturesque buildings they had seen in Europe.
Eclectic styles were applied to a variety of
functions other than residential. For instance, many early gas stations were
built in the English Cottage style with very steep gable roofs, picturesque
chimneys, and facades of stone veneer or simulated half-timber, or in the
Mediterranean or Mission styles with stucco facades and tile roofs. The
Tudor style or Tudor Gothic, distinguishable by its
Tudor arch, found
wide use in early twentieth century religious architecture, and was so
regularly used in educational buildings that it is sometimes referred to as
Collegiate Gothic. The eclectic styles, however, achieved their highest
expression in the often lavish period houses built before the Great
Depression.
A variety of eclectic period revival
architecture remains in Morgan County. Click on the links above to see
examples.
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