Victorian architecture
May 30, 2009 by blogtopia
Filed under Architectural style
The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria after whom it is named. There are also Folk and Shingle Style Victorian Houses. Many homes combined the elements of several different styles and are not easily distinguishable as one particular style or another. In the USA, Highly decorated houses are sometimes called gingerbread houses.
Notable Victorian era cities include London, Toronto, Boston, Richmond, Saint Paul, St. Louis, Louisville, Galena, IL, Galveston, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Glasgow, Nelson, Sydney, Melbourne, Manchester, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pittsburgh, Philidelphia, Grand Rapids, and New Orleans.
Varieties of Victorian architecture
- British Arts and Crafts movement
- Gothic Revival
- Italianate
- Jacobethan (the precursor to the Queen Anne style)
- Neoclassicism
- Neo-Grec
- Painted ladies
- Queen Anne
Renaissance Revival - Romanesque Revival (includes Richardsonian Romanesque)
- Second Empire
- Stick-Eastlake
- Industrial architecture