Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

This restored 1830s Greek Revival villa, at one time known as Crow Hill, has an unusual design and an interesting history. The house is located at 2705 Route 9H in Kinderhook, N.Y., the Hudson River ...

The Greek Revival on Fayette Street in Cambridge was a single-family home — that is, until developer Adam Siegel got his hands on it. Siegel’s transformation of the home at 31-33 Fayette St. into two ...

The Garden District, a national historic landmark bounded roughly by St. Charles Avenue on the north, Magazine Street on the south, Jackson Avenue on the east and Louisiana Avenue on the west. Listed ...

A historic mansion in New Orleans’s Garden District that’s been owned by one of the city’s major art patrons for 50 years is ...

Wil-Har-Dale, a 1940 Greek Revival mansion, is fronted by a double-height Corinthian colonnade. The five-bedroom house features other classic elements, crown molding, warm wood floors and staircase ...

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 ...

Bristol has its own little Acropolis. Two splendid Greek Revival houses, the Francis M. Dimond House and the Captain Josiah Talbot House, sit on the block of Hope St. between Bradford and Franklin ...

Sometimes a home’s geography shows itself in the small details. The front steps to this Greek Revival are two slabs of granite with that just-quarried look, and to the right of the stairs is a green ...

Americans fell head over heels for Greece during the first half of the 19th century. Its democratic ideals, its art and literature, and its role in civilizing the ancient world inspired Americans as ...