Editing Georgian architecture (section)

==Colonial Georgian architecture==
{{see also|Federal architecture}}
[[File:Hyde Park Barracks Sydney exterior.jpg|thumb|right|[[Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney|Hyde Park Barracks]] (1819), Georgian architecture in [[Sydney]]]]
Georgian architecture was widely disseminated in the English colonies during the [[Georgian era]]. American buildings of the Georgian period were very often constructed of wood with clapboards; even columns were made of timber, framed up, and turned on an oversized lathe. At the start of the period the difficulties of obtaining and transporting brick or stone made them a common alternative only in the larger cities, or where they were obtainable locally. [[Dartmouth College]], [[Harvard University]] and the [[College of William and Mary]] offer leading examples of Georgian architecture in the Americas.

Unlike the [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] style that it replaced, which was mostly used for palaces and churches, and had little representation in the British colonies, simpler Georgian styles were widely used by the upper and middle classes. Perhaps the best remaining house is the pristine [[Hammond-Harwood House]] (1774) in [[Annapolis]], [[Maryland]], designed by the colonial architect [[William Buckland (architect)|William Buckland]] and modelled on the [[Villa Pisani (Montagnana)|Villa Pisani]] at [[Montagnana]], [[Italy]] as depicted in [[Andrea Palladio]]'s ''[[I quattro libri dell'architettura]]'' ("The Four Books of Architecture").

After independence, in the former [[Thirteen Colonies|American colonies]], [[Federal architecture|Federal-style architecture]] represented the equivalent of Regency architecture, with which it had much in common.

In [[Canada]], the [[United Empire Loyalist]]s embraced Georgian architecture as a sign of their fealty to Britain, and the Georgian style was dominant in the country for most of the first half of the 19th century. [[The Grange (Toronto)|The Grange]], for example, is a Georgian manor built in [[Toronto]] in 1817. In [[Montreal]], English-born architect [[John Ostell]] worked on a significant number of remarkable constructions in the Georgian style such as the [[Old Montreal Custom House]] and the [[Grand séminaire de Montréal]].

In [[Australia]], the [[Australian residential architectural styles#Old Colonial Georgian style|Old Colonial Georgian residential]] and [[Australian non-residential architectural styles#Georgian|non-residential]] styles were developed in the period from {{circa|1810|1840}}.