châteauesque
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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
- Subclass of
- Renaissance Revival architecture
- Country
- France
- Image
- Massandra Back.JPG
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- Commons category
- Châteauesque architecture
- topic's main category
- Category:Châteauesque architecture
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “châteauesque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.