If you enjoy refined, dignified Adam homes, then you can thank the prominent English architect who inspired the style. Born in Scotland in 1728, Robert Adam and his brothers built many fine English country homes. They paid attention to every detail, designing the furniture as well as the houses.

Robert Adam traveled to Italy and fell in love with classical, especially Roman, design. Robert Adam revolutionized English domestic architecture when he incorporated Roman refinements into austere Georgian style buildings.

Interestingly, the architectural ideas of Robert Adam flourished in New England after America declared its independence from Britain. Federal style buildings like the one shown here imitated the popular English homes Adam designed.

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