Egyptian Revival Architecture - Other Examples

Other Examples

  • circa 1820: Memorial to Elizabeth Donkin, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
  • 1824: Congregation Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by William Strickland. The congregation left this building in 1860; it was demolished in 1902.
  • 1825–26: Egyptian Bridge in St. Petersburg. Collapsed on 20 January 1905, although the new bridge (1955) incorporated sphinxes and several portions of it remains.
  • 1829: Egyptian Gates in Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg.
  • 1826–30: Groton Monument in Groton, Connecticut, United States.
  • 1832–34: Quay of St. Petersburg, designed by Konstantin Thon in front of the Imperial Academy of Arts building.
  • 1835: Philadelphia County Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by Thomas U. Walter; it was demolished in 1968.
  • 1836: Fourth District Police Station, New Orleans. Designed by Benjamin Buisson, it originally served as a jail and police station. Later altered significantly; now used by the Knights of Babylon krewe for Mardi Gras float storage.
  • 1838: The Tombs, a court and jail complex in New York City. Demolished and replaced by a new building in 1902.
  • 1838–39: The Egyptian Avenue and inner circle of the Lebanon Circle in Highgate Cemetery, London.
  • 1838–40: Abney Park Temple Lodges, Hackney, London.
  • 1840: Gates of the Granary Burying Ground, by Isaiah Rogers, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  • 1842: Croton Distributing Reservoir in New York City.
  • 1827–43: Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  • 1843: Gates and gatehouses of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Designed by Jacob Bigelow.
  • 1843: Union Suspension Bridge, Between Ottawa and Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. Replaced in 1889 with another bridge.
  • 1844: Old Whaler's Church, Sag Harbor, New York, United States. Designed by Minard Lafever.
  • 1844: Launceston Synagogue, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
  • 1845: Hobart Synagogue, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
  • 1845: The brownstone entry gates of the Grove Street Cemetery, by Henry Austin, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
  • 1845: Egyptian Building of the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, United States.
  • 1846: First Baptist Church in Essex, Connecticut
  • 1846-8: Old Synagogue at Canterbury, England, United Kingdom.
  • 1848: Washington Monument, Washington, D.C., United States. In addition to taking the form of an obelisk, it originally featured doors with cavetto cornices and winged sun disks, later removed.
  • 1848: United States Custom House in New Orleans.
  • 1849: Lighthouse of l'Agulhas, the second-oldest lighthouse in South Africa, also called the "Pharos of the South".
  • 1851: Downtown Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Designed by William Strickland.
  • 1856: Skull and Bones undergraduate secret society at Yale University, Cambridge Massachusetts, United States. Architect's attribution in dispute, but may also be Henry Austin of the Grove Street Cemetery Gates.
  • 1862-64: Egyptian temple in the park of Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy.
  • 1867: Queen's Park Church in Queen's Park, Glasgow.
  • 1870: The Egyptian Halls, Glasgow. Designed by Alexander Thomson.
  • 1914: Regional Studies Museum in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
  • 1914: Scottish Rite Cathedral Meridian, Mississippi, United States.
  • 1921: Scottish Rite Temple in Mobile, Alabama, United States.
  • 1922: Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • 1922: Reebie Storage Warehouse, Chicago, Illinois, United States. It features twin statues of Ramses II and the use of ancient Egyptian images and hieroglyphics. Reliefs depict ancient Egyptians moving grain on barges.
  • 1923–24: Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden, Utah, United States.
  • 1922–26: Mary G. Steiner Egyptian Theatre, Park City, Utah, United States.
  • 1927: Pythian Temple, New York City.
  • 1927: The Egyptian Theatre, Boise, Idaho, United States.
  • 1924–29: Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow, Russia. Designed by Aleksey Shchusev, it utilizes elements borrowed from the Pyramid of Djoser.
  • 1926–28: Carreras Cigarette Factory, Camden, London.
  • 1928: Lincoln Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, United States. Has an Egyptian Revival interior.
  • 1928–29: Egyptian Theatre, DeKalb, Illinois, United States.
  • 1929: Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. While the exterior is Moorish Revival, the interior features extensive use of Egyptian Revival design.
  • 1933: Egyptian Theatre, Delta, Colorado, United States.
  • 1930–37: National Museum of Beirut, Beirut.
  • 1939: Social Security Administration Building, Washington, D.C.
  • 1939: Railroad Retirement Board Building, Washington, D.C.
  • 1966: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California, United States
  • 2001: Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt Building, Cairo.

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