How to Use Greek Revival in a Sentence

Greek Revival

noun
  • Greek Revival Greece and its ancient thinkers play a big role.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The first one is a Greek Revival century home on Banker’s Row.
    — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The home's design resembles a temple-style Greek Revival structure.
    — [email protected], Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2022
  • The public library, with its towering white columns, is a masterpiece of the Greek Revival style.
    — Jenna Russell Matt Cosby, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Greek Revival Home features a large front porch and private dining for candlelight dinners.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Hanish’s temple was a Greek Revival building that still stands in Arlington Heights.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022
  • The decades had not been kind to the Greek Revival structures, which had changed hands multiple times, suffering neglect, their ornament stripped.
    — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 18 Mar. 2025
  • He was drawn to the apartment’s bones (and the building itself, an 1834 Greek Revival on a quiet, perfect street).
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But what Hopper really loved—loved as an artist—was the clash of old and new, the quirky Greek Revival rubbing up against the sleek and featureless modern.
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Its Greek Revival portico and the rectangular ‶wedding cake″ bell tower gleamed a brilliant white against the surrounding oak and maple foliage.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Cavett, now eighty-six, has spent the pandemic in his palatial 1912 Greek Revival mansion in Connecticut.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The model chosen for Millermore was Greek Revival, like the plantation houses of Alabama.
    — Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Most of these 56 buildings and residential homes were built in the Greek Revival style and are carefully preserved in this historic neighborhood.
    — Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • And no architectural tour is complete without a stop in the Garden District to take in the imposing Greek Revival structures.
    — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2025
  • This is a 9,500-square-foot, federal-style home with Greek Revival and late Victorian elements.
    — Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For decades, the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner lived at Rowan Oak, an 1840s Greek Revival mansion.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The original structure is a stately white farmhouse, built in the 1740s, that had a Greek Revival center hall added in the 1840s.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Its builder, Mordecai Zachary, believed the Greek Revival style would feel familiar and more appealing than other possible boarding houses in the area.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
  • Its builder, Mordecai Zachary, believed the Greek Revival style would feel familiar and more appealing than other possible boarding houses in the area.
    — Heather Bien, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Knox County's asylum, with Italianate and Greek Revival styles, was built in 1882 and replaced its predecessor.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Known as the Corbett Irving House, the 4,500-square-foot Greek Revival residence dates back to 1837.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Built in 1902, the historic Greek Revival landmark remains one of only four Carnegie Halls in the world still in continuous use as a performance venue.
    — Kristy Tolley, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The Greek Revival residence ignited endless Pinterest pins following our inside look at it in 2018.
    — Kelly Allen, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Architecture ranges from Federal to Victorian to Greek Revival to Italianate, so there are plenty of gorgeous historic buildings to take a gander at.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Surrounded by a quiet residential neighborhood, the restaurant, housed in a century-old Greek Revival home sits at the end of a cul-de-sac on Richland Street amid a grove of 18 live oak trees.
    — Beth D'addono, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The two-bedroom, two-bath co-op is situated on the top three floors of a four-story Greek Revival on West 24th Street, across from the London Terrace Gardens.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Brooklyn townhouses have come a long way from their 19th-century origins, and this Greek Revival residence in Cobble Hill offers a compelling example of how the form continues to evolve.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 June 2026
  • Among them, a Greek Revival mansion on Lafayette Square—spanning over 7,000 square feet on an 80-foot-wide lot—stands out for its exceptionally generous proportions.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Mark Rothko and his first wife, Edith Sachar, put down roots in a small apartment within a Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan‘s East Village neighborhood in the 1930s.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Since Charleston is known for its mix of Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian architecture, a rental gives you the unique opportunity to live in a historic home–even if just for a short while.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2026

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