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Gothic Revival: Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago Houses of Parliament and Big Ben New York City: St. Patrick's Cathedral Chicago: Tribune Tower Figure 2: Social and economic considerations in interior design.(left) Elaborate mid-19th century dining room in the Gothic Revival style, Lyndhurst, Tarrytown New York, designed by Alexander J. Davis. Houses of Parliament, London, a complex of Gothic Revival buildings designed by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1837–60. Figure 93: English secular architecture in the Gothic Revival style. (left) Midland Hotel at St. Pancras Station, London, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1867-74. Gothic Revival style bargeboard on the New York Yacht Club House (currently in Mystic, Conn., U.S.), by Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846 Fonthill Abbey
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Also Known As Neogothic style
Date 1750 - 1880
Related Artists A.W.N. Pugin • Robert Adam • Jasper Francis Cropsey • Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc • Henry Ives Cobb • Sir Charles Barry • Sir George Gilbert Scott • Norman Shaw • Richard Upjohn • James Renwick • Alexander Jackson Davis • George Edmund Street • James Wyatt • Ralph Adams Cram • Edward Godwin • Alfred Waterhouse • Karl Friedrich Schinkel • William Butterfield • William Burges • Raymond M. Hood • Frank Heyling Furness • Thomas Rickman • Bertram G. Goodhue

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Gothic Revival: Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
New York City: St. Patrick's Cathedral
Chicago: Tribune Tower
Figure 2: Social and economic considerations in interior design.(left) Elaborate mid-19th century dining room in the Gothic Revival style, Lyndhurst, Tarrytown New York, designed by Alexander J. Davis.
Houses of Parliament, London, a complex of Gothic Revival buildings designed by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1837–60.
Figure 93: English secular architecture in the Gothic Revival style. (left) Midland Hotel at St. Pancras Station, London, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1867-74.
Gothic Revival style bargeboard on the New York Yacht Club House (currently in Mystic, Conn., U.S.), by Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846
Fonthill Abbey
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