romanesque

Kathy: I don’t care if it’s French, Dutch or Romanesque, I’m going to wear a bathing suit top.

He was able to combine the rich ornamental vocabularies of various Classical, Romanesque, Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance styles into successful residential architecture that was grand in scale yet comfortable to live in.

Prolific architect Elmer H. Fisher had commissions to design a number of post-Great Seattle Fire buildings in the popular Romanesque style.

Those accomplishments had resulted in a seven-foot-tall statue of Schuyler being placed, nearly a century ago, on a pedestal in front of Albany’s grandly Romanesque City Hall, just across from the State Capitol.

Commissions for “fireproof” public buildings poured in, and his mostly Romanesque revival designs soon dotted the state.