Architecture Styles

In Britain, in the second half of the century, Roman precedents were popularized by Robert Adam who toured Europe, especially Rome, 1754-8. (Scientific exploration of Pompeii had begun in 1748.)
The style reached America by way of British pattern books and an ever-swelling wave of masons, carpenters, and joiners who emigrated from England.
In the years immediately after the Revolutionary War. Labeled "Federal," it was enthusiastically embraced by Americans, who then adapted it to suit their own tastes and circumstances.