Pacific Grove >> It’s been said that every house has a story, but in the case of the historic Victorian homes featured in the new book “Pacific Grove: Architecture & Anecdotes,” they’re ...

Russ Building in San Francisco’s Financial District. Photo via Shutterstock. Gothic Revival (1840-1880) Made popular by Andrew Jackson Downing’s pattern books of the 1840s, this sprawling ...

Many of the sins attributed to the Victorian architectural era (1837-76), says Maass, were committed when the U.S. began to copy older forms of architecture rather than following the Victorian ...

San Francisco's iconic Victorian style homes, such as the Painted Ladies of Full House fame, weren't built merely as protection against the elements. Like ...

Butterfield’s Anglican parish church, All Saints Margaret Street, London (1850-59), made of polychrome brick, caused a sensation and was considered the masterpiece of High Victorian Gothic.

Each book only had a few pages of the architectural styles popular in the early and late Victorian periods, but Cape May figured prominently: the Chalfonte, the Southern Mansion, the Physick ...

ARCHITECTURE: FRANK McDONALDreviews Victorian Dublin RevealedBy Michael Barry Andalus Press, 192pp. ¤24.99. AT THE OUTSET of this colourful and engaging book, Michael Barry writes that we have ...

Turrets and towers, stained glass, bay windows—Victorian architecture is all about a decorative flourish. Technically, Victorian means a home designed in the late 19th-century period when Queen ...

Bellefonte is renowned for grand and remarkably well-preserved architecture dating back to the Victorian era, earning the borough's recognition on the National Register of Historic Places.