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Jan 29, 2024 · Key features of Victorian architecture include steeply pitched roofs, towers, turrets, bay windows, ornate woodwork, bright exterior paint, and wrap-around porches. The era’s technological advancements, such as mass production and plate glass, enabled more intricate designs.
Feb 26, 2024 · Victorian Houses: Everything You Need to Know. Named for the famous 19th-century queen, this classic style of residential architecture has transcended her reign. By Morgan Goldberg.
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- Italianate Style. During the 1840s when the Victorian era was just gearing up, Italianate style houses became the hot new trend. The style spread quickly across the United States via widely-published Victorian pattern books, many still available in reprints.
- Gothic Revival Style. Medieval architecture and the great cathedrals of the Gothic age inspired all sorts of flourishes during the Victorian era. Builders gave houses arches, pointed windows with diamond-shaped panes, and other elements borrowed from the Middle Ages.
- Queen Anne Style. Rounded towers, pediments, and expansive porches give Queen Anne architecture regal airs. But the style has nothing to do with British royalty, and Queen Anne houses do not resemble buildings from the medieval times of the English Queen Anne.
- Folk Victorian Style. Folk Victorian is a generic, vernacular Victorian style. Builders added spindles or Gothic windows to simple square and L-shaped buildings.
- Palace of Westminster
- Cliveden
- Osborne House
- Palm House, Kew Gardens
- Balmoral Castle
- Victoria Building, University of Liverpool
- Royal Albert Hall
- Manchester Town Hall
- Carson Mansion
- "Postcard Row" - Painted Ladies
Home to the Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Commons and the House of Lords), the Palace of Westminster isn’t only one of the most recognizable symbols of London. It is also one of the most famous buildings in the world. Its history dates back to the 11th century but the medieval palace complex was destroyed in a fire in 183...
Just like the Palace of Westminster, Cliveden got its present-day appearance after an extensive reconstruction due to a fire. And just like the Palace of Westminster, the present-day Cliveden owes its appearance to the famous English architect Charles Barry who was hired by the mansion’s owner George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland...
The Osborne House is another fine example of the Italianate architectural style. The former royal residence in the Isle of Wight was built in the mid-19th century by Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855) to the design of Prince Albert (1819-1861) himself. Queen Victoria loved to retreat to Osborne with her husband as well as during her widowhood and died at th...
The Palm House in the Kew Gardens is widely considered as one of the most iconic Victorian structures and one of the most notable iron and glass structures from the Victorian era. Designed by Decimus Burton (1800-1881) and built by Richard Turner (1798-1881) in the 1840s, the greenhouse was at the time one of the greatest feats of engineering. Hous...
The Balmoral Castle is another Victorian masterpieces that was built for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert who purchased the estate at the village of Crathie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, as private property in 1852. Shortly thereafter, they commissioned architect William Smith (1817-1891) to create design for a new castle. Smith’s design which is con...
The Victoria Building is the former headquarters of the University of Liverpool that was erected to the plan of architect Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) from 1889 to 1892. Built entirely from red pressed brick, the Victoria Building inspired the term “red brick university” that was used to refer to civic universities. In 2008 when the city of Liverp...
Named after Prince Albert, the Royal Albert Hall has been one of London’s favorite entertainment venues since the Victorian era. The Italianate style concert hall has been hosting live music concerts by some of the world’s greatest artists, dance performances, award ceremonies, sport events, film screenings and a variety of other shows for nearly 1...
According to many one of the most spectacular Gothic revival buildings from the Victorian era and one of Manchester’s most famous landmarks, the Manchester Town Hall is the work of the celebrated Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse. Originally used for the city council meetings which are now held in the Town Hall Extension (built in the 1930s), t...
The Carson Mansion is a spectacular Victorian house in the Eureka Old Town, California. It is widely considered a prime example of the American Queen Anne style architecture which was popular in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. The house, which was designed by architects Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom, was built for the A...
The term “Postcard Row” refers to the colorful Victorian row houses known as the Painted Ladies that were built by Matthew Kavanaugh in the 1890s at Hayes and Steiner Streets in San Francisco. Over 40,000 Victorian (and Edwardian) style houses were built in San Francisco from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, with many being vividly painted. ...
Feb 24, 2022 · Victorian-era architecture spanned more than 60 years and it encompasses a jumble of overlapping styles that include early Gothic Revival, Folk Victorian, Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Stick, Romanesque Revival, Shingle, Colonial Revival, and the popular Queen Anne style at the tail end of the era.
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