Italianate architecture

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Italianate architecture is a 19th-century revival style inspired by rural Italian Renaissance villas, characterized by low-pitched roofs, wide eaves with decorative brackets, and tall, narrow windows often crowned with elaborate hoods.

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Label Occurrences
Italianate architecture canonical 58
Italianate 5
Victorian Italianate 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf architectural style
revival style
contrastsWith Greek Revival architecture
Neoclassical architecture
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
developedIn England
emphasizes ornamental detailing
picturesque composition
romanticized rural imagery
endTime circa 1890
hasElement balustraded balconies
bracketed door hoods
bracketed eave returns
cornice with brackets
decorative cornice line
oculus windows in gables
ornamental cast-iron details
ornamental door surrounds
paired windows
pedimented window crowns
round-arched windows
rusticated ground floor
segmental-arched windows
stringcourses between stories
tall chimneys
tall first-floor windows
hasFeature arched windows
belvederes
bracketed cornices
cupolas
decorative brackets
decorative window surrounds
elaborate window hoods
emphasis on vertical proportions
hood moldings over windows
ornamental brackets under porch eaves
overhanging eaves
paneled doors with glass
porches with chamfered posts
projecting bays
quoining at building corners
square towers
stringcourses
tall narrow windows
wide eaves
hasPeriodOfPopularity late 19th century
mid-19th century
hasPlanType L-shaped plan
asymmetrical plan
rectangular plan
hasRegionalVariant Italianate architecture self-linksurface differs
surface form: American Italianate

Italianate townhouse (urban rowhouse type)
Victorian architecture
surface form: Victorian Italianate (Australia)
hasRoofType flat roof
hipped roof
low-pitched roof
hasTypicalColor earth tones
pale pastel colors
warm neutral colors
hasTypicalMaterial brick
stone
stucco
wood
influencedBy picturesque movement
romanticism in architecture
inspiredBy Italian Renaissance architecture
rural Italian Renaissance villas
movementWithin 19th-century historicism
Victorian architecture
notableExample Ames Free Library
H. H. Richardson’s early works in Italianate style
Osborne House estate
surface form: Osborne House

Palace of Westminster terraces and details
popularIn Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United States of America
surface form: United States

continental Europe
relatedStyle Gothic Revival
surface form: Gothic Revival architecture

Italian Renaissance Revival
surface form: Renaissance Revival architecture

Second Empire architecture
Tuscan villa style
startTime circa 1830
usedFor commercial buildings
country villas
public buildings
residential buildings
urban townhouses

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Calumet Historic District architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Church Hill neighborhood architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
William Tite architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
West End, Portland, Maine hasArchitecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Ryde Town Hall architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Oregon City Historic District architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Barry family of British architects style Italianate architecture
subject surface form: Sir Charles Barry
Belvedere on the Pfingstberg architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Seward House Museum architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Mount Victoria railway station hasArchitecturalStyle Italianate architecture
this entity surface form: Victorian Italianate
Broad Street Market architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
this entity surface form: Italianate
Manassas Historic District architecturalStyle Italianate architecture
this entity surface form: Italianate
Clisson hasArchitecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Rondout Creek waterfront hasArchitecturalStyle Italianate architecture
Astor Street District hasArchitecturalStyle Italianate architecture