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The First Gothic Revival Homes

Strawberry Hill, Gothic Revival Home of Sir Horace Walpole
Strawberry Hill, Gothic Revival Home of Sir Horace Walpole
Johnann Heinrich Muntz, painter. Public Domain
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In the mid-1700s, the English author Sir Horace Walpole decided to redo his country home with details inspired by medieval churches and cathedrals. Walpole's house, located at Strawberry Hill near Twickenham, became a model for Gothic Revival architecture.

Gothic Revival architecture has many of these features:

  • Pointed windows with decorative tracery
  • Grouped chimneys
  • Pinnacles
  • Battlements and shaped parapets
  • Leaded glass
  • Quatrefoil and clover-shaped windows
  • Oriel windows
  • Asymmetrical floor plan
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  1. The First Gothic Revival Homes
  2. Romantic Gothic Revival
  3. High Victorian Gothic Revival
  4. Gothic Revival in the USA
  5. Brick Gothic Revival
  6. Gothic Revival Farmhouses
  7. Carpenter Gothic
  8. Gothic Cottages
  9. A Gothic Pretender: The Wedding Cake House
  10. Gothic Gives Way to Queen Anne

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