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Folk Victorian is an architectural style employed for some homes in the United States and Europe between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued to be built well into the 1930s. [1] Folk Victorian homes are relatively plain in their construction but embellished with decorative trim. [2] Folk Victorian is a subset of Victorian ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Folk Victorian architecture in the United States" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...
Folk Victorian architecture in the United States (21 P) Pages in category "Folk Victorian architecture" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
This “Modern Home No. 52” from the 1908 Sears Home catalog cost $1,995. These “kit houses” were sold through mail order by Sears, Roebuck and Co and delivered in boxes to the local ...
Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield]]. It is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public.
Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture [1]) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. It is not a particular architectural movement or style, but rather a broad category, encompassing a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, both ...