Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that

began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form it is a style principally derived from the
architecture of Classical antiquity, the Vitruvian principles and the architecture of the Italian
architect Andrea Palladio.
In form, Neoclassical architecture emphasizes the wall rather than chiaroscuro and maintains
separate identities to each of its parts. The style is manifested both in its details as a reaction
against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulae as an
outgrowth of some classicising features of Late Baroque. Neoclassical architecture is still
designed today, but may be labelled New Classical Architecture for contemporary buildings.

panthaeon in paris
The Panthon (Latin: Pantheon,[1] from Greek meaning "Every god") is a building in the Latin
Quarter in Paris. It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary
chsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing
the remains of distinguished French citizens. It is an early example of neoclassicism, with a faade
modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to
Bramante's "Tempietto". Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Montagne Sainte-Genevive, the
Panthon looks out over all of Paris. Designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot had the intention of combining
the lightness and brightness of the gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum
required the great Gothic windows to be blocked.

The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history and culture, located in the
Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection, numbering some 8 million works,[3] is
among the largest and most comprehensive in existence[3] and originates from all continents,
illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.[a]The
British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and
scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu
House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the
following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint
and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum
(Natural History) in South Kensington in 1881. Some objects in the collection, most notably the
Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of controversy and of calls for restitution to
their countries of origin.Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round
Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum housed both a national museum of
antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public
body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national
museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.[4]
Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.[5]

The Madeleine Church was designed in its present form as a temple to the glory of Napoleon's army. To
its south lies the Place de la Concorde, to the east is the Place Vendme, and to the west Saint-Augustin,
Paris.

Palladian architecture is a European style of architecture derived from and inspired by the
designs of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (15081580). The term "Palladian" normally
refers to buildings in a style inspired by Palladio's own work; that which is recognised as
Palladian architecture today is an evolution of Palladio's original concepts. Palladio's work was
strongly based on the symmetry, perspective and values of the formal classical temple
architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. From the 17th century Palladio's interpretation
of this classical architecture was adapted as the style known as Palladianism. It continued to
develop until the end of the 18th century.
Palladianism became popular briefly in Britain during the mid-17th century, but its flowering
was cut short by the onset of the Civil War and the imposition of austerity which followed. In the
early 18th century it returned to fashion, not only in England but also, directly influenced from
Britain, in Prussia. Count Francesco Algarotti may have written to Burlington from Berlin that he
was recommending to Frederick the Great the adoption in Prussia of the architectural style
Burlington had introduced in England[1] but Knobelsdorff's opera house on the Unter den Linden,
based on Campbell's Wanstead House, had been constructed from 1741. Later in the century,
when the style was falling from favour in Europe, it had a surge in popularity throughout the
British colonies in North America, highlighted by examples such as Drayton Hall in South
Carolina, the Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in New
York City, the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland, and Thomas Jefferson's
Monticello and Poplar Forest in Virginia.[2]
The style continued to be popular in Europe throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, where
it was frequently employed in the design of public and municipal buildings. From the latter half
of the 19th century it was rivalled by the Gothic revival, whose champions, such as Augustus
Pugin, remembering the origins of Palladianism in ancient temples, deemed it too pagan for
Protestant and Anglo-Catholic worship.[3] However, as an architectural style it has continued to
be popular and to evolve; its pediments, symmetry and proportions are clearly evident in the
design of many modern buildings today.

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United
States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It has been the residence
of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800.
The house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban[1] and built between 1792 and 1800 of
white-painted Aquia Creek sandstone in the Neoclassical style. When Thomas Jefferson moved
into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building
outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.[2]
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning
of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began
almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed
Executive Residence in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South
Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829.
Because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all
work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President
William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was
eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living
quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly
constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; Jefferson's colonnades
connected the new wings.
East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space. By 1948, the
house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure.
Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal loadbearing steel frame constructed inside the walls. Once this work was completed, the interior
rooms were rebuilt.
Today, the White House Complex includes the Executive Residence, West Wing, East Wing, the
Eisenhower Executive Office Buildingthe former State Department, which now houses offices
for the President's staff and the Vice Presidentand Blair House, a guest residence.
The Executive Residence is made up of six storiesthe Ground Floor, State Floor, Second
Floor, and Third Floor, as well as a two-story basement. The term White House is often used as a
metonym for the Executive Office of the President of the United States and for the president's
administration and advisers in general, as in "The White House has decided that....". The
property is a National Heritage Site owned by the National Park Service and is part of the
President's Park. In 2007, it was ranked second on the American Institute of Architects list of
"America's Favorite Architecture".

The United States Capitol, atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in
Washington, D.C., is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S.
federal government, completed in the year 1800. Though not at the geographic center of the
Federal District, the Capitol is the origin point at which the District's four quadrants meet, and
around which the city was laid out.Like the principal buildings of the executive and judicial
branches, the Capitol is built in a distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior. Though
both its east and west elevations are formally referred to as fronts, only the east front was
intended for the reception of visitors and dignitaries.In 2014 the appearance of the Capitol dome
was altered by the scaffolding erected for the Dome Restoration Project, which is scheduled to be
completed by early 2017.

"An Order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions,
regulated by the office that each part has to perform".[1] The Architectural Orders are the ancient styles
of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and
most readily recognizable by the type of column employed. Three ancient orders of architecturethe
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthianoriginated in Greece. To these the Romans added the Tuscan, which they
made simpler than Doric, and the Composite, which was more ornamental than the Corinthian. The
Architectural Order of a classical building is akin to the mode or key of classical music, the grammar or
rhetoric of a written composition. It is established by certain modules like the intervals of music, and it
raises certain expectations in an audience attuned to its language.
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53
million items, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (and
third largest in the world), behind only the Library of Congress. It is an independently managed,
nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing. The library has branches in the
boroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island, and affiliations with academic and professional
libraries in the metropolitan area of New York State. The City of New York's other two boroughs,
Brooklyn and Queens, are served by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library,
respectively. The branch libraries are open to the general public and consist of research libraries and
circulating libraries.

The library was developed in the 19th century, founded from an amalgamation of grass-roots
libraries, and social libraries of bibliophiles and the wealthy, aided by the philanthropy of the
wealthiest Americans of their age.

The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States,
founded in 1848.[4] The Boston Public Library is also the Library for the Commonwealth[5] (formerly
library of last recourse)[6] of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; all adult residents of the
commonwealth are entitled to borrowing and research privileges, and the library receives state funding.
The Boston Public Library contains approximately 23 million items encompassing all formats including
books, DVDs, maps, music scores, and visual materials,[7] making it the second-largest public library in
the United States behind only the Library of Congress (with nearly 35 million items), according to the
American Library Association.[8] In fiscal year 2014, the library held over 10,000 programs, all free to the
public, and lent 3.7 million materials.[9]