1.1.3 Architectural Styles – Victorian

Jesse Sopko

Victorian Style

● Most popular in the US between 1860 – 1900● In eastern America they typically have 3 stories● In western America they typically have 1-2 stories● Materials were usually bricks or local stone and were

roofed with slate stone● They were originally located in the UK but were

brought to America by the British.

Common Features

• Bay window(window that sticks out of a house, that can have windows on the side of it)

• Dentils(Molding going around the house with rectangle holes in it)

• Column• Dormer(window that sticks out from the roof that has a roof of

its own)• Clapboard siding(wood siding)• Transom(opening window above a door or window)• Turret(small, skinny tower usually at the corner of a building)• Portico(porch with a roof)• Mansard roof(roof with two slopes, and often it is flat on top)

Popular Victorian house styles

• British Arts and Crafts movement• Gothic Revival• Italianate• Jacobethan• Neoclassicism• Neo-Grec• Painted ladies• Queen Anne• Renaissance Revival• Romanesque Revival• Second Empire• Stick-Eastlake• Industrial architecture

Common Examples of Victorian Houses

References • Features of Victorian Style Architecture. (n.d.). Eastconn.org. Retrieved

January 25, 2013, from www.eastconn.org/tah/FeaturesOfVictorianStyleArchitecture.pdf

• Victorian architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved January 25, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_architecture

• Victorian house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved January 25, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_house