The style of Italianate architecture that was thus created, though characterised as "Neo-Renaissance", was essentially of its own time.
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The style of Italianate architecture that was thus created, though characterised as "Neo-Renaissance", was essentially of its own time.
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Italianate architecture style was first developed in Britain in about 1802 by John Nash, with the construction of Cronkhill in Shropshire.
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The Italianate architecture style was further developed and popularised by the architect Sir Charles Barry in the 1830s.
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Barry's Italianate architecture style drew heavily for its motifs on the buildings of the Italian Renaissance, though sometimes at odds with Nash's semi-rustic Italianate architecture villas.
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The Italianate architecture style came to the small town of Newton Abbot and the village of Starcross in Devon, with Isambard Brunel's atmospheric railway pumping houses.
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Italianate architecture developed a silk industry, upgraded olive-oil production, and brought with him numerous Italian engineers who began the construction of mansions and civil building throughout the country.
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Italianate architecture style was popularized in the United States by Alexander Jackson Davis in the 1840s as an alternative to Gothic or Greek Revival styles.
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Motifs drawn from the Italianate style were incorporated into the commercial builders' repertoire and appear in Victorian architecture dating from the mid-to-late 19th century.
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Italianate style of architecture continued to be built in outposts of the British Empire long after it had ceased to be fashionable in Britain itself.
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