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Drapers Hall, Coventry, UK - Images and an outline history from Coventry and Warwickshire Network of this Greek Revival building designed in 1828 by T. Rickman and H.W. Hutchinson.
First Congregational Church, Orwell, Vermont - Photographs, 19th-century painting and history of this fine example of the Greek Revival style, built in 1842 by Frederick Bostwick and Fobes. Hosted by the University of Vermont.
Destrehan Planation in Destrehan, Louisiana - A plantation house built in 1787 in French Colonial style and remodeled to Greek Revival in 1840. Photograph, history and visitor information from the River Road Historical Society.
Union Library of Hatboro, Pennsylvania - Historic Hatboro gives a history and photograph of this Greek Revival building, completed in 1850.
Hammerwood Park, Sussex, UK - The Greek Revival house was built in 1792 to the designs of Benjamin Latrobe. This cluttered site includes a scholarly history by Michael Trinder and a virtual guided tour.
Willowbank - A fine Greek Revival country home in Queenston, Ontario, Canada, now the Willowback School of the Restoration Arts. Includes an illustrated history, and information on events.
Greek Revival Architecture in America - Photos and information from the Digital Archive and American Architecture.
Manship House Museum - Charles Henry Manship, Civil War mayor of Jackson, built his Gothic Revival cottage villa in 1857, a home in striking contrast to the Greek Revival mansions for which the South was famed, includes images and general information.
Yankee Peddler Inn - Accommodations in a 19th century Greek Revival inn in the center of Newport. Lists features, policies, rates, and local attractions and activities.
The Granite Theatre - Restored Greek Revival Church that serves as a venue for entertainment including Broadway plays, children's plays, lecture programs, and cabaret acts. History, photos, schedules, ticket information, and driving directions.

Wikipedia Articles

Greek Revival architecture - The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States. A product of Hellenism, it may be looked upon as the last phase in the development of Neoclassical architecture.
Egyptian Revival architecture - Egyptian Revival is (primarily) an architectural style (part of eclecticism) that makes reference to motifs and imagery of Ancient Egypt, offering some concrete examples of the evolving picture of Egypt in the European imagination. Partly because its association with the death cult of ancient Egypt and partly because, unlike the Greek Revival, its moral and political associations were not of progressive enlightenment or a "cradle" equally readable as of aristocratic literary culture or of democracy", the "Egyptian taste" has never been enormously popular; nevertheless, it has left its mark in Europe and North America.
Count's House - The Count's House is a historic Greek Revival home in McHenry, Illinois. It is one of McHenry's oldest and most notable landmarks, as well as one of the finest preserved examples of Greek Revival architecture in McHenry County.
Democratic Revival - The Democratic Revival (Greek: Δημοκρατική Αναγέννηση Dimokratiki Anagenissi) is a populist political party in Greece, initially founded in 2004 by Stelios Papathemelis. It was deactivated after its leader participated in the legislative elections of ...
Neo-Renaissance - "Neo-Renaissance" is an all encompassing style designation that covers many aspects of those 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Grecian (see Greek Revival) nor Gothic (see Gothic Revival) but which instead drew for inspiration upon a wide range of classicicizing Italian modes; under the broad designation "Renaissance architecture" nineteenth-century architects and critics included more than the style of buildings which began in Florence and central Italy in the ...