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Federal Rooms

The style pioneered in England in the mid-eighteenth century of Robert Adam reached America in the years immediately after the Revolutionary War.

Characterized by slender proportions, rectilinearity, pastel colors, and the liberal use of classical ornamental motifs, the Adam style of interior decoration was enthusiastically embraced by Americans, who then adapted it to suit their own tastes and circumstances.


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Haverhill Room (Haverhill, Massachusetts), c. 1805, on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004

Haverhill Room (Haverhill, Massachusetts), c. 1805, on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004

Federal style room, Baltimore Museum of Art

Federal style room, Baltimore Museum of Art



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