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Also known as château style, chateauesque, chateau style

thumb|250px|Château Frontenac, a hotel in [[Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, completed in 1893]] thumb|250px|Biltmore Estate|Biltmore, a Vanderbilt house in [[Asheville, North Carolina, US, completed in 1895]] thumb|250px|Massandra Palace, a Russian emperor's villa in [[Crimea, completed in 1900]] thumb|250px|Stadium High School, a secondary school in [[Tacoma, Washington, USA, completed in 1906]]

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Instance of
art style
Country
France
Image
Massandra Back.JPG
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Châteauesque architecture
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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Architects who designed in Châteauesque style
  • Examples in Europe
  • United Kingdom
  • Examples in the United States
  • Examples in Canada
  • Examples in Argentina
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|250px|Château Frontenac, a hotel in [[Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, completed in 1893]] thumb|250px|Biltmore Estate|Biltmore, a Vanderbilt house in [[Asheville, North Carolina, US, completed in 1895]] thumb|250px|Massandra Palace, a Russian emperor's villa in [[Crimea, completed in 1900]] thumb|250px|Stadium High School, a secondary school in [[Tacoma, Washington, USA, completed in 1906]]

Châteauesque (or Francis I style, or in Canada, the Château Style) is a revivalist architectural style based on the French Renaissance architecture of the monumental châteaux of the Loire Valley from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century.

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