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Georgian:
Georgian Revival 1905-1930: This is actually an earlier style of architecture, but it had a widespread revival in the U.S. during this period. The Georgian style is important for lighting history because most of the fine quality "Art Glass" artisans developed lighting for this style. Quezel, Steuben, Tiffany, Handel, Pairpoint and others made wonderful glass for electric lighting and lamps, which became the models for lighting companies to emulate. Much of the "Art Deco" styled fixtures were developed from 1920 - 1930 as less expensive replacement electric lighting for the dangerous gas lighting. These were chain hung electric fixtures, sometimes illuminating with unshaded bulbs (they were the latest technology and they were so pretty!), but mostly with glass shaded bulbs. Tip: Around 1915 the cloth covered stranded electric wire was perfected, allowing exposed wires to be strung through a chain, giving rise to a preponderance of chain hung light fixtures. Around 1920, word was out that gas lighting was inherently dangerous and too many homes were burning down, and homeowners should remove their gas lighting and give the safer new-fangled electric lights a chance, even though electricity was probably just a fad. Homeowners across the land heeded this advice, tossing their Victorian gas and gas/electric combination fixtures in favor of chain hung Deco fixtures. So today we have generations believing that their 1928 electric Deco fixture was original to their 1905 home because it was there even before they were born. 
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