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European medieval architecture in North America

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Medieval architecture in North America is an anachronism. Some structures in North America can however be classified as medieval, either by age or origin. In rare cases these structures are seen as evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. Although much of this is pseudoscience, these buildings are of interest to American scholars of medieval architecture.

Pre-Columbian buildings

  • L'Anse aux Meadows, a Norse settlement in Newfoundland. Foundations of eight structures, visible today only as mounds because they were reburied in a conservation effort. Includes modern reconstructions.{{cite web|title=L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/4|accessdate=15 June 2020}}
  • Church of Hvalsey, a Norse church in Greenland. Additional remains of Norse-era settlements.{{cite web|title=Hvalsey Church ruin|url=https://visitgreenland.com/about-greenland/hvalsey-church-ruin/|accessdate=15 June 2020}}

Transported buildings

Medieval building that have been transported to North America in modern times.

Other later period buildings were also transported like the Cotswold Cottage, built in the early 17th century in Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England, now in The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan.{{cite web|title=Cotswold Cottage|url=https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/209967|accessdate=8 June 2021}} The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677 is now the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri. It includes a spiral staircase which probably dates to the 12th century.{{cite web| url =http://www.dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/72000708.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Winston Churchill Memorial| accessdate = 8 June 2021| author=Sheila M. Hannah| date=October 1970|publisher=Missouri Department of Natural Resources}}

Gothic Revival

In the 19th Century a movement to recreate medieval architecture reached the Americas, the Gothic Revival. Neo-Gothic styles buildings were erected bringing more medieval architecture into the United States. Not all architects were true to the original design and style. The traditional Lancet arch and triforium found in medieval churches was combined, in some instances, with modern technology to create buildings like the Tribune Tower, a skyscraper in Chicago.{{cite web|url=https://www.architecture.org/learn/resources/architecture-dictionary/entry/gothic-revival| title=Gothic Revival}}

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