romanesque

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“I really, really felt like this was it,” O’Hara said in an interview Tuesday in his first-floor office at City Hall, a Romanesque building known for its looming clock tower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

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

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

From the outside it’s a white-pink granite cliff with yawning windows shaped a little like the openings to caves, nestling the museum’s wonderful Romanesque Revival addition from the turn of the last century.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Behind a Romanesque front porch, the mansion has 15 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood