Neoclassical architecture is a design movement that ... Originally built as a church to honor St. Genevieve, the Panthéon was repurposed into a mausoleum for France’s most celebrated citizens.

Built in 1894, this privately-owned, publicly-accessible area is a gateway to Boston's architectural past: a blend of Romanesque revival and neoclassical styles. "This is the mother church.

It is true that in the early days of the republic, America’s first architectural mode was in the neoclassical style. But the elite 18th-century men who encouraged such aesthetics, such as Pierre ...

Church leaders used things like architecture ... Neoclassicism was a way of emulating their style. Neoclassical architecture offers a complete contrast to the opulence of Baroque.

Rejecting the architecture of the old Europe they left behind, architect Franz Saler (and according to some sources, aided by the great George Barnett), designed the new church to reclect the ...

Recognizable for its columns, grand scale and simple geometric forms, neoclassical architecture draws from the architectural principles of classical antiquity, emphasizing order and symmetry.

The walls were painstakingly sanded and restored to a smooth, museum finish, as befits the Neoclassical architecture. Paint on the walls is Benjamin Moore eggshell latex in Mannequin Cream (2152 ...