Among the surviving architectural gems on Staten Island are historic, landmark-status homes and other buildings constructed in the first half of the 1800s in the Greek Revival style.

The story: The Greek Revival style of architecture began to grow in popularity in the United States in the 1820s. By the 1830s and ’40s, the features we most readily associate with the style — the ...

Architectural details including columns, a curving staircase, and a marble mantel that once graced the Clarkson mansion in Flatbush are up for auction. Old house lovers have until Thursday to place ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. William Henry Carman (W. H. C.) Folsom was born in 1817 in New Brunswick, Canada.

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 ...

For most of the early decades of U.S. history, the styles of homes built in this country were inspired by European architecture such as Greek Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Tudor Revival, ...

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