Editing Colonial Revival architecture (section)

{{Short description|American architectural style}}
[[File:Auburn City Hall Auburn.jpg|thumb|Memorial City Hall in [[Auburn, New York]], built between 1929 and 1930 in the Colonial Revival style]]
The '''Colonial Revival''' [[architectural style]] seeks to revive elements of [[American colonial architecture]].

The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the [[Centennial Exposition|Centennial Exhibition of 1876]], which reawakened Americans to the architectural traditions of their colonial past.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McAlester |first=Virginia Savage |title=A Field Guide to American Houses the Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture |date=2015-11-10 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=9780375710827 |edition=Revised |location=New York |pages=3, 68, 414 |language=en}}</ref> Fairly small numbers of Colonial Revival homes were built {{Circa|1880}}&ndash;1910, a period when [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne-style architecture]] was dominant in the United States.<ref name=":0" /> From 1910&ndash;1930, the Colonial Revival movement was ascendant, with about 40% of U.S. homes built in the Colonial Revival style.<ref name=":0" /> In the immediate post-war period ({{circa|1950s}}&ndash;early 1960s), Colonial Revival homes continued to be constructed, but in simplified form. In the present day,{{when?|date=March 2025}} many New Traditional homes draw from Colonial Revival styles.<ref name=":0" />

Although associated with the architectural movement, "Colonial Revival" also refers to [[historic preservation]], [[landscape architecture]] and [[garden]] design, and [[decorative arts]] movements that emulate or draw inspiration from colonial forms.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The gardens of colonial Williamsburg |date=1996 |publisher=Colonial Williamsburg Foundation |isbn=978-0-87935-158-8 |editor-last=Brinkley |editor-first=M. Kent |location=Williamsburg, Va |pages=3 |editor-last2=Chappell |editor-first2=Gordon W. |editor-last3=Doody |editor-first3=David M.}}</ref>