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 ...

School buildings can be bland or architecturally bold, but they often reflect what was deemed appropriate for the educational standards of the time period they were built. One local example is the ...

When you find yourself in the shadow of a classic Victorian home, you may struggle to zero in on a singular decorative focal point—but that's kind of the whole idea. The very mantra of this ...

Though the United States declared independence from the British crown in 1776, British influence, especially in architecture, has continued for hundreds of years. Victorian houses, for example, ...

Introduction -- Pugin and the Ecclesiologists in the 1840s. Historicism ; Picturesque utility in Ecclesiological architecture ; Masonry construction ; Massiveness ...