The Commission of Fine Arts chair suggested the building’s columns be changed from Ionic to Corinthian to match the government’s other great buildings. The North and South Porticoes of the White House ...

Lancaster architect C. Emlen Urban was a big fan of neoclassical design. He was also fond of putting three varieties of column — the Ionic, Doric and Corinthian — on the buildings he designed. Here ...

This is the final edition of the “Lancaster in Style” series and will conclude with a few reflections of the many unique and distinctly different architectural styles that have spanned the past 260 ...