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First Impressions

An entryway can hold important clues about a home's architecture. Check out this gallery full of fabulous front doors.

A door with multiple style influences
J. Savage Gibson

Combination

Possibly the result of a rehabilitation, this hybrid door features a Georgian/Federal fanlight atop Greek Revival columns.

A Federal door
J. Savage Gibson

Federal

This circa-1835 Federal door with Greek Revival ornamentation has classical symmetry with elegant understatement.

A Greek door
J. Savage Gibson

Greek Revival

Built circa 1845, this is a pure Greek Revival door with small dentils in the entablature and rosettes below that.

A Roman door
J. Savage Gibson

Roman Columns

This door features Roman columns, but the arrangement of transom and sidelights is characteristically Greek.

An Italianate door
J. Savage Gibson

Architrave

Part of a late 19th-century alteration to an early 19th-century house, this door features a rusticated architrave.

An Italianate door
J. Savage Gibson

Italianate

Built circa 1857, this Italianate door has an arched architrave and egg-and-dart molding around the door's four panels.

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