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The Georgian Central Plan House persists until after Confederation.
In the past four or so posts I have been discussing the appearance of Georgian architecture – specifically the central plan house – on the Island, and how styles in the capital Charlottetown differed from those outside the sphere of influence of the Plaw/Smith Greek Revival style. In some detail, again and again, I described how Plaw’s pilaster and eave bracket on his 1811 Courthouse invented a new Greek Revival style that, in Charlottetown at least, completely eclipsed that which was popular on the Mainland and in New England. I touched briefly on other styles that appeared in town and across the harbour, and in isolated Springhill where we saw…