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In its purest form Gothic Revival refers to the literary and aesthetic
movement of the 1830s and 1840s, coincidental with than in England.
Interest in the presumed "goodness" of long-gone medieval times
suggested that the emulation of its Gothic architecture would instill a
similar goodness among the present wicked. The posture gained enough
adherents to inspire a re-revival around 1900 and later, particularly
for colleges, urban high schools, and major churches, in styles labeled
neo-Gothic and neo-Tudor with all its Scarsdale suburban-style
stockbroker "half-timbering".
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