Beaux Arts

Agriculture Hall

State Historical Society

Wisconsin State Capitol

Beaux Arts is not an architecture style, it’s more a method of designing,

Buildings built on a grand scale

Integration of building with the area around it

Lavish ornamentation around main entrance, gargoyles, cartouches, rosettes, sculpture, garlands, flowers, shields

Most often Beaux Arts buildings used classical Greek and Roman forms in their designs

Columns

Round arches

Pilasters

Ballustrades