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Renaissance Building Erected:
The Confederate Museum occupies a building also designed as a home by Mill, and erected in 1818. It is often referred to as the White House of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis having lived in it from 1861 to 1865. A third building of Robert Mills' design is the Monumental Church. Clas_sical Revival in style, and erected 1812-1814. It is a memorial to more than 70 people, including the governor of the state, who lost their lives in 1811 in a theater fire on the same site. During most of the war, General Robert E. Lee's family occupied the brick building, erected in 1845, which is now the headquarters of the Virginia Historical Society of which John Marshall was the first president.The Cathedral of St.-Louis was built in 1742-1784. The episcopal palace is now used as an art gallery and museum, and there are several other museums in the city. The city hall is a fine Renaissance building erected from 1544 to 1607. The Church of St.-Sauveur dates from 1699-1718, and it has a 15th century bell tower.
Renaissance and Post-Renaissance. In the Romanesque and Gothic periods, the building of churches had been the dominant concern of architecture. The revival of Roman architecture, a basic factor in the complex movement known as the Renaissance in Italy, was certainly not hostile to Catholicism, yet comparatively few churches were built.
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