Victorian architecture

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Victorian architecture

The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural style

Architectural style

Architectural styles classify architecture in terms of form, wikt:technique, materials, time period, region, etc. It overlaps with, and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture....
s predominantly employed during the Victorian era

Victorian era

The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the period of Victoria of the United Kingdom reign from June 1837 to January 1901....
. 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.

Varieties of Victorian architecture

There are also Folk and Shingle Style Victorian Houses.

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The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural style

Architectural style

Victorian era

Varieties of Victorian architecture

British Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a United Kingdom, Canada, and United States aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century....
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Italianate architecture

The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct nineteenth-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and Neoclassicism, were synthesized with picturesque aesthetics....
Jacobethan
Jacobethan

Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the English Revival style made popular from the 1830s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance , with elements of Elizabethan Architecture and Jacobean architecture....
(the precursor to the Queen Anne
Queen Anne Style architecture

The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
style)
Neoclassicism
Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the Neoclassicism that began in the mid-18th century, both as a reaction against the Rococo style of anti-tectonic naturalistic ornament, and an outgrowth of some classicizing features of Baroque architecture....
Neo-Grec
Neo-Grec

Neo-Grec is a term referring to late manifestations of Neoclassicism, early Neo-Renaissance now called the Greek Revival style, which was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second French Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III, a period that lasted approximately between 1848 and 1865....
Painted ladies
Painted ladies

Painted Ladies is a term used for Victorian house and Edwardian houses and buildings painted in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details....
Queen Anne
Queen Anne Style architecture

The Queen Anne Style is a furniture and decoration style that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century, manifesting itself in a number of different ways in different countries....
Renaissance Revival
Neo-Renaissance

"Neo-Renaissance" is an all-encompassing style designation that covers many aspects of 19th century Revivalism which were neither Grecian nor Gothic but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes....
Romanesque Revival
Romanesque Revival architecture

Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed in the late 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture Architectural style of architecture....
(includes Richardsonian Romanesque
Richardsonian Romanesque

File:Trinity_Church,_Boston,_Massachusetts_-_front_oblique_view.JPGRichardsonian Romanesque is a architectural style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston ....
)
Second Empire
Second Empire

Second Empire is an architectural style that was popular during the Victorian era, reaching its zenith between 1865 and 1880, and so named for the "French" elements in vogue during the era of the Second French 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. In the USA, Highly decorated houses are sometimes called gingerbread

Gingerbread

Gingerbread is a sweet that can take the form of a cake or a cookie in which the predominant flavors are ginger root and raw sugar....
houses.

Notable Victorian era cities include London

London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
, Boston, Richmond, Saint Paul

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul is the state capital and second most populated city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city lies on the north bank of the Mississippi River, downstream of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, Minnesota, the state's List of cities in Minnesota....
, St. Louis, Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. The city's estimated population as of 2006 is listed as 557,789, with a population of 1,233,733 in the Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area....
, Galena, IL, Galveston, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
, Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Detroit, Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's Scottish Lowlands....
, Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
, Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
, Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, Kolkata

Kolkata

, Indian renaming controversy , is the Capital of the Indian States and territories of India of West Bengal. It is located in East India on the east bank of the River Hooghly....
, Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
, Pittsburgh, Philidelphia, Grand Rapids, and New Orleans.

In the USA, the South End

South End, Boston, Massachusetts

The South End is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts....
of Boston is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
as the oldest and largest Victorian neighborhood in the country. Old Louisville

Old Louisville

Old Louisville is a historic district and neighborhood in central Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky, USA. It is the third largest such district in the United States, and the largest preservation district featuring almost entirely Victorian architecture....
in Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a U.S. state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern United States , but it is uncommonly included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwestern United States....
also claims to be the nation's largest Victorian neighborhood.

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. Like all Virginia municipalities incorporated as cities, it is an independent city and not part of any county....
is home to several large Victorian neighborhoods, the most prominent being The Fan

Fan district

The Fan is a district of Richmond, Virginia, so named because of the "fan" shape of the roads that extend west from Belvidere St., on the eastern edge of Monroe Park, westward to Boulevard ....
and Church Hill. Church Hill has the distinction of being the place where Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry was a prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine, he is remembered as one of the most influential advocates of the American Revolution and Republicanism in the United States, especially in his denunciations of c...
gave his famous Give me liberty or give me death speech at historic Saint John's church. The Fan

Fan district

The Fan is a district of Richmond, Virginia, so named because of the "fan" shape of the roads that extend west from Belvidere St., on the eastern edge of Monroe Park, westward to Boulevard ....
is best known locally as Richmond's largest and most 'European' of Richmond's neighborhoods and nationally as the largest contiguous Victorian neighborhood in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

The Distillery District

Distillery District

The Distillery District is a historic and entertainment precinct located east of Downtown Toronto. It contains numerous cafes, restaurants and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery....
in Toronto

Toronto

Cabbagetown

There are two neighborhoods named Cabbagetown:*Cabbagetown , Canada*Cabbagetown , USA*Cabbagetown , a novel by Hugh Garner about Cabbagetown in Toronto...
is the largest and most continuous Victorian residential area in North America. Other Toronto Victorian neighbourhoods include the Annex

Annex

An annex is a building that is an addition to another building.Annex or Annexe may also refer to:* Annexation, the incorporation of territory into another geo-political entity...
, Corktown

Corktown

Corktown can refer to:* Corktown, Toronto* Corktown Historic District* Corktown, Ottawa...
, Parkdale

Parkdale

Parkdale can refer to several different things:...
, and Rosedale

Rosedale

Rosedale is the name of more than one place....
.

The photo album L'Architecture Americaine by Albert Levy

Albert Levy (photographer)

Albert Levy is a French people photographer active in the 1870s-1890's. He is a pioneer on architectural photography that focused his work in Europe and the United States....
published in 1886 is perphaps the first recognition in Europe of the new forces emerging in American architecture.

The Old West End

Old West End

File:Toledo Museum of Art Monroe Street entrance.jpgThe Old West End is a historic neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio and is considered to be "the largest neighborhood of late Victorian Architecture, Edwardian architecture , and Arts and Crafts movement homes east of the Mississippi."...
neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio

Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio. Named after Toledo, Spain, it is located on the western end of Lake Erie, on the Michigan border....
is recognized as having the largest collection of late Victorian and Edwardian

Edwardian architecture

Edwardian architecture is the style popular when King Edward VII of the United Kingdom was in power; he reigned from 1901 to 1910, but the architecture style is generally considered to be indicative of the years 1901 to 1914....
homes in the United States

United States

Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
.

Carroll Avenue

Carroll Avenue

Carroll Avenue is a street situated in Los Angeles, near Echo Park, Los Angeles, California. It is in Angelino Heights, one of the older neighborhoods of Los Angeles....
in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
contains that city's highest concentration of Victorian homes.

See also: Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
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Victorian architecture

Varieties of Victorian architecture

See also

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