Victorian Architecture

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Victorian Architecture

• Marina Movchan

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• Queen Victoria
• (reign 20 June 1837 22 January 1901)

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Victorian architecture in the United Kingdom
Mentmore Towers
Joseph Paxton
Crystal Palace
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Archibald Simpson, North of Scotland Bank in
Aberdeen
St. Marks Church by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie
Alexander Thomson, Holmwood House
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Styles conceived in the Victorian era

• Jacobethan (183070)

Anthony Salvin's Harlaxton Manor
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• Renaissance Revival (184090)

Mentmore Towers
National Westminster Bank
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• Neo-Grec (184565)
• Romanesque Revival
• Second Empire (185580)

Old Billingsgate Market, by John Jay
Grosvenor Hotel
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• Queen Anne (18701910)

County Hall, Wakefield, designed by architects
James Glen Sivewright Gibson and Samuel Russell
in 1894.
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• British Arts and Crafts movement (18801910)

Blackwell by Baillie Scott
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Other movements popularized in the period

• Gothic Revival

Palace of Westminster, completed in 1870.
Designed by Sir Charles Barry and August Pugin
Fonthill Abbey by William Thomas Beckford
Manchester Town Hall by Alfred Waterhouse
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• Italianate

Osborne House completed 1851 (by Sir Charles
Barry)
Cliveden Barry's Neo-Renaissance mansion
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• Neoclassicism

Glasgow City Chambers by John Carrick
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International spread of Victorian styles
William Butterfield
Jacob Wrey Mould
St. Peters Cathedral, Adelaide
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North America
The Saitta House, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn (Queen
Anne) by René Edward De Russy
Banff Springs Hotel by Bruce Price and Walter S.
Painter
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Australia
The Abbey, Annandale, New South Wales, by John
Young
Joseph Reed, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
Former General Post Office, Martin Place, Sydney
(Free Classical)
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Bibliography

• Dixon, Roger and Muthesius, Stephan. Victorian
  architecture. Thames Hudson 1978. ISBN
  0-500-18163-2
• Prentice, Helaine Kaplan, Rehab Right, Ten-Speed
  Press. ISBN 0-89815-172-4, includes descriptions
  of different Victorian and early 20th Century
  architectural styles common in the San Francisco
  Bay Area, particularly Oakland, and detailed
  instructions for repair and restoration of
  details common to older house styles.

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