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Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. Victorian refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction. However, many elements of what is typically termed "Victorian" architecture did ...
Decorative Hardware of the Victorian Era: An American. Perspective, Raheel Ahmad; History and Style of Victorian Architecture and Hardware; Manchester, a Victorian City; Photographs of Victorian Homes in Hamilton, Ontario Canada; Victorian era architecture in San Francisco, California; Victorian era architecture and history in Buffalo, New York
In architecture the Eastlake style or Eastlake architecture is part of the Queen Anne style of Victorian architecture. Eastlake's book Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details posited that furniture and decor in people's homes should be made by hand or machine workers who took personal pride in their work.
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$1.3 million. Built in 1892, this American shingle-style Victorian is known as Overcliff, and it certainly has a distinctive silhouette from its perch above the Hudson River. With six levels, nine ...
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Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim. [1] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s, [2] which was associated mostly to the Carpenter Gothic style. [3]
An example of the cottage orné – The Hermitage, Hanwell, in Ealing, west London. Cottage orné (French for 'decorated cottage') [1] dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th centuries during the Romantic movement, [2] when some sought to discover a more natural way of living as opposed to the formality of the preceding Baroque and Neoclassical ...