Victorian

= Victorian =

Victorian Architecture The origin of a Victorian house is any house that was built during the reign of Queen Victoria of England (June 20th 1837 to January 22, 1901). However Victorian houses were still popular for the first 2 decades of the 20th century so its safe to assume that houses built with the same idea after Victoria's reign fit in the category as well. The features that define Victorian include...






 * __**Dormers:**__ Windows that project from the sloping roof of a house and are covered with a roof of their own.
 * **__Cupola:__** A Small domed structure crowning a roof or tower.
 * **__Newel post:__** A tall and sometimes fancy carved post at the top or bottom of a stair used to hold up the hand rail.
 * **__Pediment:__** The piece that comes out from the roof and covers the porch
 * **__Shingle:__** A thin unit of wood, slate tile, concrete or other material used in a series of overlapping rows to cover the roof or the side of a house.




 * **__Finial:__** The decorative part which ends the point of a spire or other item that projects upward.
 * **__Column:__** A slender and long structure, usually with a cylindrical shaft, a base, and a top, which is called a capital.
 * **__Gable:__** The triangular part at the end of a building formed by the two sides of a sloping roof.
 * **__Bay Window:__** A window that sticks out of a house, and that can have windows on the side of it.
 * **__Dentils__**: A molding going around a house with rectangle holes in it.
 * __**Clapboard Siding:**__ Wood siding used on a house
 * **__Cornice:__** The piece that runs along were the roof and wall meets.
 * **__Entablature:__** The upper part of a wall or story


 * **__Lintel:__** A post that goes across the top of a window or door
 * **__Portico:__** A porch with a roof
 * __**Mansard roof:**__ A roof with two slopes and often is flat on top.

Even though these Features are popular with most Victorian Architecture some are more frequent in certain styles than others. Their are many different styles of Victorians which include; British Arts and Crafts movement, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Neoclassicism, Neo-grec, Painted ladies, Queen Anne, Renaissance revival, Romanesque revival, Second Empire, Stick-eastlake, and Shingle. Since there are so many different styles only the following six will be described with more depth. Queen Anne Victorians The Second Empire Victorian Stick Style Victorian Folk Style Victorian Shingle Style Victorian Romanesque Victorians Victorian Architecture Works Cited Created by Shannon Boothe Date: February 23, 2010