How to Use Greek Revival in a Sentence

Greek Revival

noun
  • These exterior facades also vary in architectural styles, from Craftsman to Greek Revival.
    Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 19 June 2024
  • The first one is a Greek Revival century home on Banker’s Row.
    Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
  • He was drawn to the apartment’s bones (and the building itself, an 1834 Greek Revival on a quiet, perfect street).
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The 1834 Greek Revival townhome, part of a preserved row, played a role in the neighborhood’s bohemian past.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But what Hopper really loved—loved as an artist—was the clash of old and new, the quirky Greek Revival rubbing up against the sleek and featureless modern.
    Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The public library, with its towering white columns, is a masterpiece of the Greek Revival style.
    Jenna Russell Matt Cosby, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Greek Revival Home features a large front porch and private dining for candlelight dinners.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Cavett, now eighty-six, has spent the pandemic in his palatial 1912 Greek Revival mansion in Connecticut.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Hanish’s temple was a Greek Revival building that still stands in Arlington Heights.
    Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • The home's design resembles a temple-style Greek Revival structure.
    Eddie.morales@jrn.com, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022
  • Knox County's asylum, with Italianate and Greek Revival styles, was built in 1882 and replaced its predecessor.
    The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The model chosen for Millermore was Greek Revival, like the plantation houses of Alabama.
    Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Its Greek Revival portico and the rectangular ‶wedding cake″ bell tower gleamed a brilliant white against the surrounding oak and maple foliage.
    David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Her current listings include a Greek Revival townhouse in Greenwich Village, on the market for $21.95 million.
    Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2023
  • Take a look inside this Greek Revival mansion built in the 1800s Nautical-inspired and new Though the house in which this en suite main bathroom sits wasn't totally outdated, the room needed to be completely reconfigured.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The Greek Revival vacation home perfectly marries modern charms with classic Mediterranean elements, including through its bright white and rich blue decor.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2024
  • Commissioned by Federal Hall, the 45-minute site-specific performance, offered free of charge in the hall’s grand Greek Revival rotunda, is both a pageant-style survey of significant events at the site and an informed critique.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • To avoid uniformity, the town is a deliberate mash-up of architectural styles, all looking to the past: Greek Revival forms, Roman arcades, Palladium ornamentation.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 2 May 2023

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