Although Silsbee adhered mainly to Victorian and revivalist architecture, Wright found his work to be more " gracefully picturesque " than the other " brutalities " of the period.

An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).

Category: Victorian architecture

Example of an early Victorian architecture | Victorian " Gingerbread House " in Connecticut, United States, built in 1855

The Oakleigh Motel in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, constructed using Googie architecture during the 1956 Summer Olympics as one of the first motels in the state, was added to the Victorian Heritage Register in 2009.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, the property is an example of late Victorian Queen Anne style architecture in masonry.

* In Europe, modern architecture departed radically from the excessive decoration of the Victorian era.

Many of the homes and businesses in the downtown area are examples of Victorian architecture.

This large concentration of wealth made for a large amount of culture, much of which still exists and is also evidenced in the varied architecture of the city and its Victorian neighborhoods.

The majority of Bacup's culturally significant architecture is in the Victorian period, but there are older buildings of note are Fearns Hall ( 1696 ), Forest House ( 1815 ) and the 18th century Stubbylee Hall.

Hopper did produce a commissioned “ portrait ” of a house, The MacArthurs ’ Home ( 1939 ), where he faithfully details the Victorian architecture of the home of actress Helen Hayes.

** Victorian architecture

Many interesting Victorian houses around the Tannoch Conservation Area show Scottish cottage, Scottish Baronial, Classical architecture and Gothic influences.

The most recent development is characterised by some interesting one-off conversions and extensions to Victorian properties ; new housing by developers that often follows designs based on the brick architecture of the South of England ; and contemporary steel framed commercial and leisure buildings.

In 1900, the SAL Railroad constructed the Hamlet Historical Depot Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot, a Victorian architecture train station which is one of the most photographed train stations in the eastern United States.

Crystal Palace still retains much of its impressive Victorian architecture, although housing styles are mixed, with Victorian terraces next to mid-war terraces side by side with blocks of modern flats.

Some Georgian architecture and Victorian era terraced housing survive in patches: for example Arbour Square, the eastern side of Stepney Green, and the streets around Matlock Street.

Little architecture of any note dates from this period as the Victorian structures of the previous generation continued to fulfil their purpose.

Train Depot-In March 1888, the Alabama Midland Railway built a small depot of Victorian railroad architecture in Ashford to be a waystation along the Bainbridge-to-Montgomery route.

Old Bisbee is also noted for its architecture, including its Victorian style houses and elegant Art Deco courthouse.

The main shopping strip in Pacific Grove featuring old Victorian architecture | Victorian style buildings

The Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's rule between 1837 and 1901 which signified the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire.

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

In the middle 19th century, a nostalgic interest in pre-Cromwell Christmas traditions swept Victorian England following the publications of Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols ( 1822 ), William B. Sandys's Selection of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern ( 1833 ), and Thomas K. Hervey's The Book of Christmas ( 1837 ).

* Victorian Britain, 1837 – 1901, covering the later phases of the Gothic Revival, French influences, Classical and Renaissance revivals, Aestheticism, Japanese style, the continuing influence of China, India, and the Islamic world, the Arts and Crafts movement and the Scottish School.

Victorian fashion comprises the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and grew in province throughout the Victorian era and the reign of Queen Victoria, a period which would last from June 1837 to January 1901.

If Regency era is being used to describe the transition between Georgian and Victorian eras, the focus is on the pre-Victorian period from 1811, when the formal Regency began, through 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.

Here it refers to novels written during the Romantic era in literary history, which runs from the late 18th century until the beginning of the Victorian era in 1837.

It was in the Victorian era ( 1837 – 1901 ) that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.

During the Victorian era a lot of new buildings and industry were established, such as Independent Chapel ( 1822 ), Holy Trinity ( 1836 – 37 ), Christ Church ( 1837 ), Castle Railway Station ( 1846 ), Wesleyan Chapel ( 1846 ), The Corn Exchange ( 1848 ), Methodist New Connexion Chapel ( 1848 ), W. N.

By the beginning of the Victorian period in 1837, the majority of Neolithic standing stones at Avebury had gone, having been either buried by pious locals in the 14th century or smashed up for building materials in the 17th and 18th.

In English, as a descriptor of anti-intellectualism, philistine — a person deficient in the culture of the Liberal Arts — was common British usage by the decade of 1820, which described the bourgeois, merchant middle class of the Victorian Era ( 1837 – 1901 ), whose wealth rendered them indifferent to culture.

St. Andrews is the birthplace of Thomas Storrow Brown, a businessman, journalist, and an officer of the 1837 Rebellion and Victorian artist Edward Mitchell Bannister.

Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living at the time of Queen Victoria's reign ( 1837 – 1901 ) and of the moral climate of the United Kingdom throughout the 19th century in general, which contrasted greatly with the morality of the previous Georgian period.

*** Victorian era ( 1837 – 1901 )

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

* Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837 – 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-87099-535-9

As an editor he put forth a volume of Cameos from Walter Savage Landor ( with Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1874 ); a large Library of ( selections from ) American Literature ( with Ellen M Hutchinson, 11 vols, 1888 – 1890 ); a Victorian Anthology ( 1895 ); and an American Anthology, 1787-1899 ( 1900 ); the two last-named volumes being ancillary to a detailed and comprehensive critical study in prose of the whole body of English poetry from 1837, and of American poetry of the 19th century.

* A Victorian Anthology, 1837 – 1895, ( 1895 )

As the Victorian era began, Darwin pressed on with writing his Journal, and in August 1837 began correcting printer's proofs.

In the United Kingdom, and former British colonies, a Victorian house generally means any house built during the reign of Queen Victoria ( 1837 — 1901 ).

Victoriana refers to items or material from the Victorian period ( 1837 – 1901 ), especially those particularly evocative of the design style and outlook of the time.