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Home | Architectural Styles in East End |
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 he phrase "Victorian architecture" is an umbrella term variously used to describe any of the numerous architectural styles of the Victorian period (approximately 1837-1901), most of which share some common characteristics and distinctive differences. Below, you'll find a handy primer of Victorian architectural styles, featuring several notable examples from East End, to help dispel any confusion: |
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Queen Anne (1875-1910)
Also includes the Queen Anne Revival, and Queen Anne Eastlake styles. This is the quintessential "Victorian" house, the most elaborate of any Victorian style, with gingerbread work and elaborate woodwork both outside and inside. It is nonsymmetrical, loaded with gables, dormers, chimneys, towers, etc. and so completely dominated Victorian residential architecture that it is now more or less synonymous with the typical image of Victorian architecture. |
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 East End Queen Anne
This comparatively subdued 1876 Queen Anne still maintains most of its original features including the original slate roof. |
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Bungalow (1905-1930)
From the word bangla or bangala, used in the province of Bengal in India to describe a cool, thatched roof dwelling. British colonists adapted these structures as summer homes in which the interior was arranged around central living rooms. This design became the prototype for America's Craftsman Bungalows, where it signified a look that was simple, basic and antithetical to the flowery excesses of Victorian architecture. |
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East End Bungalow
This charming little bungalow is one of the few within East End's borders, since the neighborhood largely developed before the bungalow style of architecture was prevalent. The house still maintains its historic kitchen and sink with a completely renovated interior.
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Eastlake (1860-1890)
Named after Charles L. Eastlake (1833-1906), an English architect who wrote "Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details" Also called Eastern Stick Style, or High Victorian Eastlake. This is almost carpenter gothic, but with more elaborate carving. Stick-Style houses which feature additional applied decoration, like that near the top of the house in the photo, are also sometimes called Eastlake. |
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 Hugh Carhart Thompson, architect of the Ryman Auditorium, designed and built this splendid example of an Eastlake Victorian for his personal home in 1885. This was one of the first residences in East End. In the early 1980's, the home was converted from a triplex and a substantial renovation was begun by the family that bought it and continues to live in it.
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Other East End architectural styles include: |
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Italianate (1845-1885)
Also called Victorian- or High Victorian- Italianate. The Italianate style began the use of brackets to hold the wide eaves, usually painted in a contrasting color. Designed to resemble Italian villas, the houses have slender windows, pillared porches, and usually multiple tall towers. The houses are an escape from the symmetrical mold of the Colonial and Federal houses. |
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Stick Style (1860-1880)
Today historians often call Stick a transitional style, a bridge between the picturesque Gothic of the 1840s and '50s and the full flowering of Victorian ideas in the Queen Anne houses of the 1880s and '90s. The defining feature of these houses, however, is stickwork: expressive wood facing and ornament that evokes the grids and angles of structural framing in their layout. |
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Romanesque Revival (1880-1900)
Round arches over windows and/or entryways; thick, cavernous entryways and window openings; thick masonry walls, rounded towers with conical roof; facades are asymmetrical; variable stone and brick façade. On elaborate examples, polychromatic facades are used with contrasting building materials. It became an almost universal style for public buildings: churches, libraries, train stations, courthouses, schools but was rare for houses due to massive construction requirements; intended mainly for society's elite class. |
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American Four Square (1890-1920)
As its name indicates, these houses are based on the repetition of squares and square masses. Typically, the main part of the house is a large square block topped by a pointed "hipped" roof. Boxy dormers with hipped roofs project from the center of one or perhaps all sides of the roof. Window openings may be tall, but the sash is divided to emphasize squareness. The front of the house is occupied by a long, deep porch supported by simple square columns of brick, wood or a combination of the two.
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