This heavy, fortresslike architecture has its roots in the 11th-century stone churches of early Christians. In Europe, Romanesque Revival architecture first emerged as a celebration of those medieval ...

Massachusetts – Boston. Trinity Church. Henry Hobson Richardson, an acclaimed American architect of the 19th century, designed and built Trinity Church on Copley Square. The building established ...

Henry Hobson Richardson died of Bright’s disease on April 27, 1886, two years after the first steel frame building had been erected in Chicago. Unlike his admirer, the late Louis Sullivan (TIME, Dec.

They look like dark-red fortresses, impenetrable and forboding. Houses and commercial buildings built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style are easily identified by their massive appearance.

Milwaukee has a "look" when it comes to architecture. For a lot of folks that look is the romanesque, and more specifically Richardsonian romanesque, a late 19th century architectural revival.