Local landowner Walter Barton May commissioned the Gothic Revival folly in 1835.

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He dropped his fledgling career as a cabinetmaker years ago, a symptom of moving to New York and leaving his shop behind, his dexterity now devoted to chainsawing on weekends at the gothic-revival cottage near Newburgh that he shares with his wife Fenella, a physician.

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Surrounded by the university's Gothic Revival buildings on one side and the city's traditional main street on the other, the trapezoidal museum evokes a shimmering spaceship from a distant world.

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Local landowner Walter Barton May commissioned the Grade I Gothic Revival folly in 1835.

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The Rowlings now lived in a handsome Gothic Revival cottage, by a church, in the village of Tutshill.

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The 14-room stucco cottage, built in an Early Gothic Revival architectural style, was preferred over the often stifling heat and humidity of the White House.

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Inspired by the religious sobriety of the early-19th-century German painters who called themselves "Nazarenes, " by England's Gothic-revival movement and by the straightforward imagery of early-Renaissance painters like Giotto, they looked to the Bible, to the poetry of Keats and Tennyson and to Shakespeare for subject matter, proclaiming their intention to shun vulgar or sentimental subjects and to paint directly from nature.

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Mr. Thomas attended Yale University, a campus that was rebuilt in a gothic-revival style in the 1930s, for both his undergraduate years and for law school.

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Some inclusions on the 2012 World Monuments Watch list have been damaged by natural disasters or neglect, such as heritage sites in eastern Japan, Gothic Revival buildings in New Zealand and the oldest cemetery in Athens, Greece.

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