Victorian Homes

Hello, everyone.

My name is Kristen Stevenson, and in the past few

lessons, we have been working through different styles of homes

found in America.

But we have been looking at very traditional style homes.

At this point, we have been looking at the Native

American pre railroad coal cows is that are very functional

throughout their their presentation.

Then we got into the colonial homes where the European

settlers were often found with being able to bring their

home countries building techniques within their environment.

But these were typically not ornamental until after the American

Revolution was the American Revolution began and more money was

really available to be spent.

Holmes became more and more or late, and nothing really

became more ornate until the Victorian houses.

And that's why this is kind of in a different

section, because a lot of what we have been mourning

to this point is going lately thrown out the window

at this point and Victorian homes air traditionally found between

18 60 1900 so right at the beginning of the

American Civil War through the turn of the 20th century,

and we're going to start with the second empire second

empire is a time friend between 18 55 and 18

85. These homes have what's called the mansard roof, which

is the sloping roof from the way that it looks

from street level, but it actually has a flower on

top. This flat roof on top allows for more space

for an additional third floor, which is what you can

see with the dormer windows.

And remember those air for light and ventilation, which means

now we can actually live upstairs.

This house is the first.

That's a symmetrical see have this side with The big

windows is entirely different than the last side, and that's

very, very common.

These homes were often styled a sound houses with a

a city, and there's Italianate elements.

So the elements that we saw with the gable ing

in the front, the heavy ornamentation around windows and even

these little rectangular areas along the edge of the building,

which are called weeds, are very Italian.

These were found mostly in the Northeast in the Midwest,

but they fell out of favor after after an economic

panic in 18 70.

From there we go into the stick and the stick.

Victoria is highly ornamental.

These are extremely This is what often people consider as

Victorian style that in the queen and which we will

get to next again.

These four started being seen around 18 60 at the

beginning of Civil war and started falling out of favor

around 18 90.

They have gabled roofs, often very complicated roofs, and this

example shows the towering that is often common as well.

These houses, like the Second Empire, were found commonly in

town houses within cities, and there's a huge amount of

ornamentation. If there's a place that they can play something

decorative, they have, and you can see that even in

this example, it is typically would citing.

But you confined masonry as well.

These tend to be fairly color chromatic and are replaced

by the Queen Anne, which we're now going to see.

So the Queen Anne again, this is considered many people

consider this to be a what they think of as

a victory.

It has a highly steeply pitched, regularly shaped roof, very

asymmetrical and design, and it is highly ornament, maybe not

quite as much as the stick, but still very ornamented

the wall textures.

Mayberry. You may see, citing You may see masonry, You

may see shooting cedar shakes.

You may see all of these.

Um, the porch that you see on this particular house

is very common thes extensive fortunes.

What many people call the wraparound porch is familiar here,

and very often these are most popular in the Northeast.

The shingle is what's typically found in New England and

in parts of New York.

In this case, we are stripping away the ornamentation, and

both the roofing and the sighting are continuous wood shingles

or originally, that would or a cedar shake.

Now they're often a composite.

It is very typically has a gable roof.

This one is fairly complicated, but again, there's no emphasis

on the ornamentation they wanted toe flat and 11 seamless

transition, as opposed to the queen in and the stick

that were very kind of choppy.

These were heavily influenced by the Queen and the Colonial

revival in the Richard Sony in Romanesque, but in the

grand scheme of Victorian houses, these were probably the cleanest

for now.

So the Richard Sony in Roman asked, This is almost

always masonry.

And so what we're seeing is Romanesque, period in in

European history had big, rounded arches because the round art

could hold a lot of weight.

And these rounded arches were found in the wind over

the windows that were hit roofs.

Cross Gables a combination.

And if you look at it, there's no symmetry really

to be found in.

This is not only found within houses a standalone houses,

but it could be found in a townhouse which was

very, very common.

They were also used for public and commercial buildings.

So you will see these on perhaps a school campus

ordered downtown location.

A lot of city halls were built this way, they

refer to It is general rants ah style because this

was very common when he was president.

They has want columns and and again that that masonry

How how rough?

It looks very typical of this period.

The Richard Sony in Romanesque had towers and almost 75%

of these homes.

So this is a very typical example off what one

would look like Now we're going to finish with what's

known as the folk Victorian, and the full Victorians generally

ran from about 18 70.

So after the Civil War toe about 1910.

The front gable is very, very common in this case.

Victorian decorations are are still there, but the shapes are

far more simple in a traditional folk home than it

is and the Victorian houses.

It's far less for native lab Brett than the Italianate

in the Queen, and so this is a simpler urgent.

We also see that in in this case, the railroads

were becoming more prominent, and it meant that it could

take machine woodworks.

Woodwork didn't have to be hand carved anymore.

And as this was being truthful about the railroad, this

gave a greater opportunity for people to be able to

build and and used these materials.

This has the influences in which craftsman would we will

talk about in the eclectic houses and our next section.

This this is the one that started to influence the

craftsman and in all full disclosure.

This is actually my hats.

This was built in 1914 and it's not.

It is full Victoria, but there are some elements that

start leaning towards the Craftsman like that.

That large triple window dormer is not as common, but

there's a lot of similarities within it, and for a

lack of a better way of being able to figure

out what this is.

It's still being called a folk Victorian, so that's our

overview of Victorian houses.

Victorian houses are the ornate, big, showy houses.

They typically have a lot of colors, a lot of

textures, what a stuff.

And that's because there was money available at that time

after the war.

It really wasn't until starting around the 19 hundreds, where

people said, You know what?

There's way too much going on in Victorian homes and

we want to go simpler And that's what we're going

to see when we go into the eclectic houses, so

thank you very much and I'll see you in the

next session.

Victorian Homes

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