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be better known. They, also, represent the full breadth of 19th century revivalist spirit, a frenzy of architectural statements of many persuasions. Classicism, represented by Georgian and Regency architecture, with its clean Palladian overtures, reflecting the stirring clarity of the broad, simple truths of the 18th century's Age of Reason, gave way, in the 19th century, to a plethora of revival styles often placed cheek by jowl, in the same façade or interior, a frenetic design composition every bit as frenetic as the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution which marked the period of most of the 19th century. Highclere is at once Gothic, Italianate, Louis XIV, XV and XVI, Elizabethan and modern. The last in the sense that its design is a necessary precursor to a new Neoclassical era, the International Style of modernism of the first half of the 20th century. The house, also, and other buildings of the same ilk, would do much to inform modernism of the second half of the 20th century and well into the 21st. HYLAND

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