Details in this style are borrowed from classical designs from the past, especially those common to 16th Century Italian architecture. The most easily identified examples are large, architect-designed public or commercial buildings several stories in height. Each floor is articulated differently with horizontal belt courses separating only the first level from the second in earlier examples and, in later examples, every level. Window trim or surrounds vary from floor to floor, often with arched windows on the lowest level. Walls are capped with stone cornices and, sometimes, rooftop balustrades. A variation adapted to smaller educational structures three stories or less in height is called Academic Renaissance. Schools in this style may have a recessed central portion between symmetrical projecting wings, all of the same height, or a projecting central entrance on an otherwise flat facade. Details are more significant around the main entrance in either case.
Renaissance
701 Ave. H, 1917
602 Broadway, 1924
1204 Broadway, 1927 and 1929 with first floor alterations;
Sanquinet-Staats & Hedrick, Ft. Worth, architects
1211 Ave. J. 1927 with alterations
1109 13th, 1927
Academic Renaissance
Liff Sanders Elementary, 610 3rd,
1925-26 with additions; Peters & Haynes, architects
Dupre Elementary, 2008 Ave. T, 1925-26 with additions; Peters
& Haynes, architects.
1204 Broadway, 1926 and 1929 with first floor alterations; Sanquinet-Staats & Hedrick, Ft. Worth, architects
