FAIRFIELD — The stately house at 536 Old Post Road was once described as “the finest example of Greek Revival Architecture in Connecticut” in 1971 by Lloyd Marsh of the Society for the Preservation of ...

Columns, capitals and their respective bases have long endured the test of evolving architectural styles and interpretations. Although the classical orders of architecture can be traced to ancient ...

A campaign of stratigraphic excavations in the western area of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia (Roman Paestum) has revealed the existence of two Greek Doric temples. This discovery sheds new ...

“There is a sanctity around the monuments of Athenian glory which inspires us at once with awe and wonder, nor can we approach without veneration the soil of a people whose religion amused our infancy ...

What’s a column writer to do week after week? Why, come up with yet another column of course. Got no choice. Today, you’re in for a treat: a column column. I’m no architect, but I am an architecture ...

Miss A. D. BETTS, Thorn Cottage, Byways, Berk-hamsted, Herts, writes to suggest that the fluted columns of Greek architecture were copied from plant stems, such as those of an umbelliferous plant.

Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...