Styles · 1 building with a page
Renaissance Revival
The Italian palazzo as a model: a symmetrical block with a heavy cornice and arched windows.
- Usual dates
- 1840–1930
- In Newburyport
- c. 1825
- Built 1775–1830
- 1
How to recognize it
- 01A symmetrical, boxy mass with a flat or low hip roof
- 02A heavy projecting cornice with brackets or modillions
- 03Round-arched windows and doors, often with keystones
- 04A rusticated or channeled ground story, smoother above
- 05String courses dividing the stories
- 06Quoins at the corners
About the style
Renaissance Revival borrows from the palaces of Florence and Rome: a symmetrical rectangular block, a rusticated ground floor, windows treated differently on each story and a bold cornice at the top. In the mid-nineteenth century it was a style for banks, clubs and institutions; around 1900 it returned in a larger, more academic form.
It is rare in Newburyport, and the state inventory uses the label sparingly.
Renaissance Revival in Newburyport
Styles are as recorded on each building's page; a building whose page names two styles is listed under the one that fits its date, or under Victorian Eclectic when both are Victorian, with its own wording under its address. Buildings not yet researched show the state inventory's dates and styles. Hollow dots are lost buildings. Locations: MassGIS / Massachusetts Historical Commission.