VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE

 Many styles and trends overlapped each other causing the Victorian era to be very eclectic.
 Rapid changes of style.
 Involves Gothic Revival, Folk Victorian, Italianate, Second Empire, Renaissance Revival, Queen Anne, Stick Style, Eastlake,
Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle Style.
 Essential quality, and probably the most important, is the use of whimsical imagination. The home must evoke childhood
memories of fantasy and make believe. This of course is accomplished through ornamentation and color schemes.
 Gothic revival style
o elaborate bargeboards and gingerbread, Italianate- carved lintels and brackets

 Queen ann style—most predominant

o steep gabled roofs, shingled walls and spindlework.
Gothic revival
 Reviving the spirit and forms of gothic architecture
Queen anne style
Art Nouveau

Shingle style
Stick style
Romanesque revival
Beaux arts architecture
Art deco