Romanesque Revival Town Houses
The Romanesque Revival was perhaps the leading architectural style for town house design at the end of the nineteenth century. Unlike Richardsonian Romanesque designs, the main feature of a Romanesque Revival town house is the use of arched motifs around doors and windows, without the deep recesses and rough-cut stone of the Richardsonian version. The style was particularly popular in St. Louis: a cadre of talented masons vied with each other to produce unusual and inventive designs, using a profusion of masonry patterns. Romanesque Revival town houses of the Victorian Period were characteristically detailed with an ornate brick cornice, and windows with decorative brick arches. Often, the openings featured paired windows with elaborate wood mullions. (St. Louis, 1995)