Reform Club

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Title	Reform Club
View	Front elevation, showing the main portal
Work Type	buildings societies' buildings
Style/Period	Neoclassical Renaissance Revival
Creator Name	Barry, Charles, 1795-1860
Creator Nationality	British
Subject.work	architectural exteriors architectural interiors
Country	United Kingdom
City	London
State/Province	England
Location.Notes	Pall Mall
Architectural Material	stone
Technique	construction
Dates	1837-1841
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/15/1997
Subject Information	Barry also successfully continued to employ the astylar Italian palazzo form in his urban designs, notably the Reform Club (completed 1841), Pall Mall, London, the select competition that he won in 1837, the immediate forerunner of which was the Manchester Athenaeum (1836-1839), and Bridgewater House (ca. 1841-1851), St James's, London, for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere. Initially the Reform Club was designed around an open cortile, but once the commission was his it became enclosed, the idea possibly coming from Cockerell's entry.
Information.source	Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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