Essay on Contemporary Uses: The Pennsylvania State Capitol

The Dome of the Rock is constructed with a wood structure encased with marble and stone mosaics. The octagonal plan has a large central space which is separated with two surrounding ambulatories. Supporting the tall cylindrical dome is four masonry piers and twelve Corinthian columns. With tie beams separating columns from their capitals, is twenty-four Corinthian columns and piers in an alternating pattern mimicking the central circle support. The interior of this space is embellished lavishly with veined marble, gilded glass, and coloured stone. On lower half of the arcades are fitted marble with intricate patterns as above is decorative with mosaics of trees, plants, fruits, jewels (such as breast plates and necklaces), chalices and crowns. The gold gilded wood dome is decorated with red and gold floral

Another building that was constructed for the fair was the Agricultural Building. “In keeping with the custom of its famous designers, the building was in classical style with the noteworthy feature of a sixty-four foot wide entrance flanked by mammoth Corinthian columns fifty feet high and five in diameter.” (Burg 128) In the middle of the building there was a large dome; the Romans were the first to create and use domes. Both Greek and Roman ideas were incorporated into this building.

“ The Big Little City,” also commonly know as the city of Pittsburgh, is one of the largest cites in the state of Pennsylvania. With over 144 square kilometers of land area, and approximately seven square kilometers of surface water (Pittsburgh Pennsylvania), the city of Pittsburgh is large by anyone’s standard. The city, which is located in western Pennsylvania, has a very diverse geography which sets it apart from many other cities in the United States. Pittsburgh and its suburbs are known for steep hillsides covered with buildings, streets which have steps for sidewalks, and sidewalks which are named streets. From the highest point in Allegheny County, 1,401 feet at River Hill in Forward Township, to the 710

Rome with there favorite architecture shape, the arch, are both still very much used in the

Geoffrey Wright, an El Paso architect, describes Henry Trost’s grand design of El Paso High School incorrectly as a “renaissance revival” in a 1991 article in the Austin American-Statesman. Although he was mistaken in this observation, he made another observation that was correct, which is that the eastern façade of El Paso High School’s six humongous columns, on top of it’s bases and adorned with acanthus leaves, is most definitely a design of the Classical Revival style. He also went on to state, “[T]he style adopted the best parts of Greek and Italian architecture centuries later.”

The building is four stories high made of brick, tile, and concrete. The east façade also has Classical features such as a frieze, dentils, cornice, raking cornice, entablature and an architrave. The front of the façade was adorned with floral coffers, corbels, as well as post and lintels (Photo 2).

Shape: The monument had a V-shape and each wing of the V was about 250 feet long. The walls of the V ascended with the hill it was built on until the highest point was 10

Pennsylvania was popular among Indians (they were treated very fairly) and immigrants as Penn employed a very liberal land policy

Ellis discusses the long-standing silence that the government observed over the slavery question. Shortly after the dinner party, some Quakers presented petitions that called for an end to the African slave trade. Members of the House were dismayed to be presented with such concerns, and Southern representatives were adamant that the question be ignored. They insisted that the Constitution specifically prohibited Congress from passing laws that abolished or restricted the slave trade until 1808. Unfortunately, the matter was soon removed from their control altogether.

Penn is a great man who affects the city of Philadelphia in many aspects. First, he bought three major land which consists the main body of Philadelphia, the waterfront and south county. And buildings were built along the Delaware river. It was also he advertise Philadelphia to European and attract more population move there. He also determined the basic layout of the city, the “gird” (Philadelphia History Channel, n.d.) Such a brand-new design was a great attempt in the new world of America while the capital city of his motherland, London had been overcrowded and caught on fire in 1666, the Great Fire of London. This design become the most influential planning pattern in the American colonies and affected many other cities’ design in the world.

Based on the physical evidence found on the tour of Philadelphia, we can draw that colonial Philadelphians valued religion greatly, they had advanced architecture and infrastructure, and they carried out very modest attitudes. Some of the most historical figures came from and benefitted the city of Philadelphia including Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Hamilton.

elegance, and color. The structure is an octagonal exterior wall placed under a golden dome. The

The Independence National Historical Park is a 40 acres long park that consists of most of Pennsylvania’s most important and visited historic sites. Most of the park sites and historic landmarks are located within the neighborhoods of Old City and Society Hill. This historic national park is included in the system because of the meaning that it has with the American Revolution and the formation of the country. The historic national park is home to Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were signed and adopted. Liberty Bell is also located here in the Liberty Bell Center. Some other important sites in the Independence National Historical Park include the First Bank of the United States, Carpenters’

The interior is decorated with mosaics and marble pillars and coverings of great artistic value. Justinian oversaw the completion of the greatest cathedral ever built of its time. It has a complex interior structure; the nave is covered by a central dome which is about 182 ft. 5in. from floor level and rests on an arcade of 40 arched windows. The dome had some repairs made to it which made its diameter vary from 101 feet to 103 feet. There are arched openings extended by half domes of same diameter to the central dome carried on smaller semi-domed exedras. Also the interior surfaces are sheathed with polychrome marbles, green and white with purple porphyry, and gold mosaics. The exterior, clad in stucco, was tinted yellow and red during restorations in the 19th century at the direction of the Fossati

One of the most recognizable and influential buildings of the Neoclassical era, had to be the house of Thomas Jefferson, the Monticello. First before you can understand why this building is so influential to the Neoclassical period, we need to first understand, what is meant when you say "Neoclassical" and what separates it from its preceding period, the Baroque era. The prefix Neo- means new so it means that in front of classical, that would mean "the new classical" period. This like the name says is a revival of the classical period which was highlighted by humanism, and elegance, but a less extravagant elegance. This is in opposition to the "Baroque" period that was highlighted by more extravagant colors, and designs that were more in