Favorite Victorian architectural style?

[arcadian]

Gothic Revival


Italianate


Second Empire


Queen Anne


Stick Style


Exotic


Romanesque Revival


Shingle Style


Folk Victorian

Explanations here:
http://users.rcn.com/scndempr/dave/school.html

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Folk or Romanesque are my favorites, n/t

[Capn Sunshine]

2. I voted Queen Anne because it reminds me of a favorite neighborhood in Seattle

:hi: Seattleites! Miss ya

[Lethe]

3. romanesque revial - my old town's courthouse is in that style

and grotesque faces adorn the outside too

[arcadian]

4. Wow! That is impressive.

Even the street light looks old. I'm guessing Ohio or Michigan?

[Lethe]

5. that would be Waxahachie, TX

the grotesque faces are the coolest thing though. There's some story behind them but i can't remember.

[arcadian]

6. I was way off.

Thought that might have been Johnnie Reb though.

[smalll]

7. You forgot one - my Victorian-era favorite - Beaux Arts!

[arcadian]

8. There is some overlapping and inbreeding

But I think Beaux-Arts is separate.

[XemaSab]

9. My old house

[omega minimo]

10. OMG this post belongs in GD!!!

[lildreamer316]

11. Side question: do you think it would be acceptible to put arts & crafts wallpaper in an 1896 Qn Ann?

Wondered if anyone had thoughts on that..

[arcadian]

12. It's all you.

If you are a purist, I wouldn't. But screw it, at the link the guy talks about how in the 60s people were painting Victorians all sorts of bright colors, it's not pure to the architecture but he speculated the "Victorians" wouldn't mind. ;-)

[lildreamer316]

13. Well, this is one of those Queen Annes that

has the judge's paneling in the dining room up to a height of about (I'm guessing) 8 feet; and then the rest is just plain wall up to the 12 ft. ceiling. I want to put one of the Bradbury & Bradbury freizes in the intervening space. I figured it wouldn't look too out of place because of the judge's paneling in the dark wood color. Of course, Bradbury also has period correct paper for the rest of the house, so I thought a bit of mixing wouldn't kill it..they mix it anyway in one of the pics (the border is from an earlier period collection)

http://www.bradbury.com/lion_dove.html (first smaller pic to the right)

ANYway, I know you didn't want to get into an advice conversation, but just wanted you to know I was trying to sorta stay in tune with the period but have some interesting effects. I don't like the overdone flowery look either; I'll probably keep it simpler throughout the rest of the house (just use a small border in each room, complmentary paint colors; etc.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. I am voting for my mom. She loved painted ladies and gingerbread, but gothic Addams Family types

were her fave. :) I voted for stick style because she had many times pointed out similar houses and told me how much she liked them.

[Odin2005]

15. Romanesque Revival!

:D

[david13]

16. Tudor. I would like to vote for Tudor, even if it's the wrong era.

I like Tudor. But you have some very nice examples there. But again, the Texas courthouse takes the cake.
dc

[woo me with science]

17. Italianate.