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Greek Revival Houses

Many people would have passed right by this modest Greek Revival house, but one man saw history worth saving.

Greek Revival Houses

Architect Marc Rueter designs a new Greek Revival style house on a farm in rural Michigan.

House Tours

Brent Hull walks you through the history of the Colonial Revival style—what makes this style unique and still popular today.

House Tours

Lively decorating updates a 19th-century contemporary Greek Revival brick rowhouse returned to its historic roots.

Early Lighting: Colonial-1860

Authentic Designs builds historically accurate period lighting fixtures by hand in our rural Vermont workshops. Our bespoke designs include Colonial, Federalist and other Early American designs, Victorian, Art Deco, Arts & Crafts and Mid-Century.

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Emerging out of mud and stumps, a pretty garden flourishes around an 1835 Greek Revival farmhouse.

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Old-House Kitchens

Never out of style…that can be said of Windsor chairs or a blue-and-white color scheme—and of this recent kitchen in an 1868 Greek Revival house.

House Tours

Historical Concepts looks to the South’s designs of the past to create a new old house in Savannah, Georgia.

House Tours

An 1835 Greek Revival house in the region’s vernacular is the center of a compound.

Greek Revival Houses

The 1836 Greek Revival house, built by a member of the prominent Taft family, remains under the diligent care of Umbrian-born preservationists with a light touch.

House Tours

After restoring the dilapidated house, the owner filled it with relics of the past, saving "significant, resounding things."

Architect John Day worked with Connor Homes to design the perfect pared-down Greek Revival for his young family.

Greek Revival Houses

LDa Architecture & Interiors melds tradition and modern life in New England.

The picturesque downtown is packed with artists and craftsmen, antiques shops, and restaurants, occupying spaces once claimed by millers, tanners, and blacksmiths.

Historic Neighborhoods

Visit colonial-era homes in the Old South of Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

The Ohio house was built of local sandstone.

House Tours

This unusual house is a vernacular variation of New England Greek Revival style.

before: The temple-style Greek Revival building had been sheathed in vinyl and was long abandoned. after: New windows were set in panels to mimic original proportions. Stacked stone steps topped with granite slabs replaced a concrete pad.

Greek Revival Houses

A handsome building in desperate need of rescue provides an open-plan interior.

Board walls, inset cabinets, beadboard accents, and freestanding kitchen furniture are historical details in the old house. Carrara marble countertops and subway-tile backsplash are practical and timeless.

Kitchen Furnishings & Appliances

A kitchen in the American vernacular suits this restored Minnesota cottage.

The warmth of the old floor anchors the crisp blue-and-white kitchen. The owner painted her antique English Windsor chairs blue.

Old-House Kitchens

Classy, traditional, and practical, this renovated kitchen fits its vernacular Greek Revival house.

Southern Historic Sites

Many buildings have risen along the Mississippi coast since Hurricane Katrina landed its punch in 2005. But very few embody the Spanish-moss-and-mint-julep spirit of the Old South quite like Grass Lawn, a stately Greek Revival home with an airy two-story galerie that overlooks the Gulf of Mexico.