Richardsonian Romanesque
May 29, 2009 by blogtopia
Filed under Architectural style
Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston (1872–77). Vestiges of the style first appeared in Richardson’s Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane in Buffalo, New York, designed in 1870.
This very free, revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish and Italian Romanesque characteristics. It emphasizes clear, strong picturesque massing, round-headed "Romanesque" arches, often springing from clusters of short squat columns, recessed entrances, richly varied rustication, boldly blank stretches of walling contrasting with bands of windows, and cylindrical towers with conical caps embedded in the walling.
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