Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Colossal order


An order more than one story tall

Order: An arrangement of columns with an entablature

Found in classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire


Examples from Buffalo architecture


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