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The Little Rock AME Zion Church in downtown Charlotte is a good example showing Ionic columns. It was built in 1911 and designed by J. M. McMichael. Mr. McMichael did not like steeples, so the church has instead two cupolas [the short towers you see] on the top, one on the left and one on the right.
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www.cmhpf.org/kids/dictionary/ClassicalOrders.html
www.cmhpf.org/kids/dictionary/ClassicalOrders.html
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The Ionic column is lighter and more graceful than its mainland cousin. It lacks the latter s muscular quality. Instead it evokes a growing plant, something like a formalized palm tree. The columns origins show that it travelled a slow and tortuous path by land from Egypt through Syria and Asia Minor to Greece.
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www.alientravelguide.com/art/architct/grkarch/ionic.htm
www.alientravelguide.com/art/architct/grkarch/ionic.htm
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Ionic columns are one of the column styles within Greek architecture. Greek columns can drastically change the value of your house with a interior decorative column. Learn more about columns today. ... Types of Columns - Ionic Columns...
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www.guidetocolumns.com/ionic_columns.htm
www.guidetocolumns.com/ionic_columns.htm
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Ionic columns were more slender than the Doric and had scrollwork on the Capital. ... Columns; From the About.com Guide to Architecture, a page of resources on modern and ancient columns.
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ancienthistory.about.com/od/ioniccolumns/Ionic_Columns....
ancienthistory.about.com/od/ioniccolumns/Ionic_Columns.htm
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The projecting ends of these cross-beams are perpetuated in the dentils (row of small square blocks) at the base of the cornice of the Ionic (and Corinthian) Orders. The shallower entablature required less support than in the Doric Order, and Ionic columns were always comparatively slender.
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www.scran.ac.uk/dl/ada/documents/general/orders/classic...
www.scran.ac.uk/dl/ada/documents/general/orders/classical_ionic1.htm
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Media in category "Ionic columns" ... Category: Columns by style ... Ionic order.svg; 194,618 bytes;
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commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ionic_columns
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ionic_columns
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One of the most prominent features of Greek temples is their columns - although columns appear in architecture all around the world, they appear here in an especially significant form. The ancient Greeks constructed their temples along very specific lines, and that included their columns. ... Even churches used Doric columns,
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atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blgrk_temples03...
atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blgrk_temples03.htm
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The traditional symbol of the University of Missouri is the row of six Ionic columns. The Columns once supported the portico of Academic Hall, the first building erected on campus. Academic Hall was built between 1840 and 1843 from plans drawn by A. Stephen Hills, designer of the Missouri State Capitol.
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www.missouri.edu/about/history/columns.php
www.missouri.edu/about/history/columns.php
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The Ionic column is always more slender than the Doric: Ionic columns are eight and nine column-diameters tall, and even more in the Antebellum colonnades of late American Greek revival plantation houses.
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www.answers.com/topic/ionic-order
www.answers.com/topic/ionic-order
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