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Characteristics
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Columned porch or portico
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Front door sidelights
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Dormers
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Symmetrical Facade
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Double-hung windows, often multi-paned
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Bay windows or paired or triple windows
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Wood shutters often with incised patterns
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Decorative pendants
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Side gabled or hipped roofs
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Cornice with dentils or modillions
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Interior is not symmetrical and more open than
historic examples
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One-story wings, usually with a flat roof and
commonly embellished with a balustrade
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Fireplaces
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Time Period and History
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1880 – 1960
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Based on Georgian and Federal buildings
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Postwar (Civil War) decades wanted to build a
sense of national unity
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The Philadelphia's 1876 International Exhibition
celebrating 100 years of American independence instigated the Colonial Revival
movement and this was promoted again at the Columbian Exposition of 1893 in
Chicago
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Area of the country it is usually found in
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Located all over the United States
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