Seth Seelye House
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The Seth Seelye House in Bethel, Connecticut
, also known as the Bethel Public Library, was built in 1842. It is an example of Greek Revival architecture
, which is arguably the first American style to have emerged, other than native American styles. The style is deliberately different from previous styles brought from England and other countries. The style reflects American ideas of what Americans might have thought was architecture of ancient Greece, and was popular for a period in the first half of the 19th century, when America was quite taken by news of democratic revolutionary activity in modern Greece.
The house is gable-fronted, with four relatively slender Doric style columns in a portico supporting the gable-front pediment above.
Bethel, Connecticut
Bethel is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, about sixty miles from New York City. Its population was 18,584 at the 2010 census. The town center is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place...
, also known as the Bethel Public Library, was built in 1842. It is an example of Greek Revival architecture
Greek Revival architecture
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture...
, which is arguably the first American style to have emerged, other than native American styles. The style is deliberately different from previous styles brought from England and other countries. The style reflects American ideas of what Americans might have thought was architecture of ancient Greece, and was popular for a period in the first half of the 19th century, when America was quite taken by news of democratic revolutionary activity in modern Greece.
The house is gable-fronted, with four relatively slender Doric style columns in a portico supporting the gable-front pediment above.