European Medieval Architecture in North America - Transported Buildings

Transported Buildings

Medieval building that have been transported to North America in modern times.

  • The Cloisters museum, New York City, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art housed in a complex integrating elements from several different medieval structures
  • St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church, a 12th-century cloister from Spain, reassembled in Florida
  • Elements of a 12th-century cloister from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines Abbey, a Romanesque portal, and a 15th-century chapel in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Part of a Romanesque cloister in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
  • Chapelle de St Martin de Sayssuel, (St. Joan of Arc Chapel) Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Agecroft Hall, Richmond, Virginia
  • Chapterhouse of the Abbey of Santa Maria de Ovila, under reconstruction at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, Vina, California
  • A 1524 sidechapel from France in the Detroit Institute of Arts

Other later period buildings were also transported like the Cotswold Cottage, built in the early 17th century in Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England, now in The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 is now in Fulton, Missouri. It includes a spiral staircase which probably dates to the 15th century.

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