Victorian architecture

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Manchester Town Hall is an example of Victorian architecture found in Manchester, UK.

Image:Carson Mansion Eureka California.jpg

The Carson Mansion is an example of a Victorian home in Eureka, California, USA

The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign of Queen Victoria after whom it is named.

1 Varieties of Victorian architecture
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] 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

There are also Folk and Shingle Style Victorian Houses. Please note that the names of architectural styles (as well as their adaptations) varied between countries. Many homes combined the elements of several different styles and are not easily distinguishable as one particular style or another. Highly decorated houses are sometimes called gingerbread houses.

Notable Victorian era cities include London, Boston, Saint Paul, St. Louis, Galveston, San Francisco, Oak Bluffs, Glasgow, Melbourne, Manchester, Mumbai, Pittsburgh and New Orleans.

The South End of Boston is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as the oldest and largest Victorian neighborhood in the United States.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The Distillery District in Toronto contains the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America.

The Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio is recognized as having the largest collection of late Victorian and Edwardian homes in the United States , East of the Mississippi.^[4]

See also: Georgian architecture.

Gingerbread House Essex CT.jpg Example of an early Victorian "Gingerbread House", built in 1855 (Essex, Connecticut)	Santa Fe passenger terminal in San Diego prior to 1915.jpg The California Southern Railroad's San Diego, California passenger terminal, built in 1887.	Z-5371.jpg railroad depot at Disneyland in Anaheim, California	Victorian home restored.JPG An example of the American Queen Anne style in Lebanon, Illinois.
Gingerbread (architecture).jpg A "gingerbread" house.	AlamedaVictorian.jpg A Victorian house in Alameda, California	Royal exhibition building tulips straight.jpg Melbourne's world heritage Royal Exhibition Building and fountain built in 1880	Old rialto melbourne.jpg Rialto buildings, Melbourne, built during the city's land boom of 1888
Banff Springs Hotel1.jpg Banff Springs Hotel, built in 1888	Mayfield old house1.JPG A grand Victorian style house located on the corner of Hanbury Street and Highfield Street, Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia	Victorian-barrie.jpg Late Victorian farmhouse near Barrie, Ontario, Canada	Stirling.jpg Michelsen Farmstead built in 1899, is a Victorian style farmstead that is a Provincial Historic Site of Alberta located in the National Historic Site, Stirling, Alberta, Canada.

[edit] References

^ http://www.southendrealty.com/Community/Community.aspx
^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_End
^ http://www.southendhistoricalsociety.org/
^ Stine, L. (2005) Historic Old West End Toledo, Ohio. Bookmasters.

Dixon, Roger and Muthesius, Stephan. Victorian architecture. Thames & Hudson: 1978. ISBN 0-500-18163-2 .
Prentice, Helaine Kaplan, Rehab Right, Ten-Speed Press. ISBN 0-89815-172-4, includes descriptions of different Victorian and early 20th Century architectural styles common in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly Oakland, and detailed instructions for repair and restoration of details common to older house styles.