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hexastyle
hexastyle, a. and n. (ˈhɛksəstaɪl) Also 8 erron. hectastyle. [ad. Gr. ἑξάστῡλ-ος, f. ἕξ six (hexa-) + στῦλος pillar. Cf. F. hexastyle.] A. adj. Having six columns; applied to a portico or to the fa{cced}ade of a temple.1748 De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. II. 301 (D.) One of the largest..hectastyle porticoe...
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Amphiprostyle
Other known examples are the Temple of Artemis Agrotera outside Athens, and the hexastyle Temple of the Athenians at Delos.
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Portico
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Hexastyle buildings had six columns and were the standard façade in canonical Greek Doric architecture between the archaic period 600–550 BCE Greek hexastyle
Some well-known examples of classical Doric hexastyle Greek temples:
The group at Paestum comprising the Temple of Hera (c. 550 BCE
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Prostyle
There are also prostyle hexastyle and prostyle octastyle temples.
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Vicus Maracitanus
The chief monument, the Capitolium, which is in the form of a temple with a pronaos that was probably hexastyle, stood on the square of a forum opposite
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Peripteros
If it is made up of four columns, it is a tetrastyle; of six, hexastyle; of eight, octastyle; of ten, decastyle; and of twelve, dodecastyle.
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Richmond County Courthouse (North Carolina)
It features a hexastyle in antis portico.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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Brick House (White Plains, Virginia)
It was remodeled in 1860, with the addition of the massive hexastyle portico covering the entire front facade.
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Hilltop (Staunton, Virginia)
It features a huge two-story hexastyle portico with massive Tuscan order columns.
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Lincoln County Courthouse (North Carolina)
It has a taller central section flanked by flat roofed wings, matching pedimented hexastyle Doric order porticoes on the front and rear of the center section
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Lee County Courthouse (North Carolina)
The east and west sides features monumental hexastyle porticoes supported by Ionic order brick columns. Atop the hipped roof is a small dome.
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First Baptist Church (Burlington, North Carolina)
The front facade features an Ionic order hexastyle portico. The educational building was added in 1939 and a Sunday School and chapel wing in 1953.
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Tullamore Courthouse
The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing Cormac Street; there was a flight of steps leading up to a large hexastyle portico with Ionic order
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