Victorian style

Victorian Style

Victorian Style, term applied to the trends in British architecture and furniture in the Victorian era (1837-1901).

Features of Victorian Style Architecture
The Features of Victorian Style Architecture are:
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Victorian Styles
Victorian House Plans
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Victorian style developed and was quite popular from about 1820 to the early 1900's. Victorian homes are most commonly two stories with steep roof pitches, turrets and dormers. Porches are often large with turned posts and decorative railing.

A Victorian style based on the fortified and semi-fortified Scottish houses of the 16th and 17th centuries.

A grand Victorian style house located on the corner of Hanbury Street and Highfield Street, Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia
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The primary Victorian styles and their origins are as follows:
Gothic Revival - English Middle Ages, i.e., the Tudor dynasty
Italianate - Rural Italy
Second Empire - French Baroque Revival during Napoleon III's reign
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In Ontario, a Victorian style building can be seen as any building built between 1840 and 1900 that doesn't fit into any of the aforementioned categories.

A very ornate Victorian style originally popular in the mid 1800's, which is best known for elaborately carved rosewood parlor furniture, balloon-backed chairs and triple-crested sofas.
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- hugely popular, Victorian style of decorative and "architectural" design in which garden features were constructed in a rustic manner or using rustic materials such as unfinished wood, bark, reeds and even moss.

From 1895 to 1915, Americans gradually turned away from the Victorian styles toward more simple, open, flexible floor plans.

The highly decorative and often superfluous woodwork applied to a Victorian style house.
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These vernacular house styles are less elaborate than the high Victorian styles which they mimic. These plain house styles characterize working class areas in cities and farm houses in the countryside.

See also: Victorian, House, Architecture, Arches, Bungalow