Victorian Era:

Gothic Revival

Victorian Era(Queen Victoria 1837-1901)

• Industrial Revolution → machine made

ornament → decoration for middle class.

• Railroads → no longer just local materials.

• Sentimentality about death.

Victorian Era• Integration of styles – all of history is available to borrow from.

• People wanted clear visual symbols of hierarchy.

• New money → people wanted architecture to provide a sense of identity.

Some Victorian Era Styles

Egyptian Revival

Greek Revival

Gothic Revival

Romanesque Revival

Georgian Revival

Eclecticism

Second Empire

Beaux Art

Tudor

Queen Anne

Arts & Crafts

Italianate

Shingle Style

Egyptian Revival

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Entrance Gate

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Sphinx

Grove St. Cemetery,  New Haven, CT, (Architect: H. Austin) 1844-48

Egyptian Building, VA Commonwealth University, Richmond. Thomas Stewart (1845)

Egyptian Building, VA Commonwealth University

Gothic Revival

characterized by strong associational values of religion and nature. It is a revival style based on English and French precedents from the late 12th-15th centuries. Gothic Revival is found in both ecclesiastical and residential architecture with a wide range of archaeological accuracy, from Richard Upjohn's urban churches to "Carpenter's Gothic" cottages.

ENGLAND: Houses of Parliament, river facade

Trinity Church (1839) Richard Upjohn view from Wall Street

Trinity Church, Manhattan Richard Upjohn 1839

Trinity Church

Trinity Church

Trinity Church, interior

Brooklyn Bridge

Eastern State Penn.

Saint Patrick's Cathedral, NYC

Sloan's Homestead Architecture, title page

Sloan's Homestead Architecture

containing Forty Designs for Villas,

Cottages, and Farm Houses,  

with Essays on Style, Construction, Landscape Gardening, Furniture etc., etc.

Illustrated with Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings

 

Samuel Sloan, Architect  

Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott & Co.

1867

Gothic Cottage

Gothic Cottage, Northern Style

"Wedding Cake" House, Kennebunkport, ME (1826/1855)

Gothic Revival House, Salem, MA. (c. 1850)

MEMORAL HALL, Harvard Univ., VanBrunt (1870-78)

Memorial Hall Harvard Univ. Henry VanBrunt 1870

Memorial Hall, drawing

Memorial Hall, tower detail

Memorial Hall

Pre-tower restoration

Memorial Hall, plan

Memorial Hall, interior

Memorial Hall, interior window

Memorial Hall, interior dining hall

Westminster

                                                                      

Sheldonian Theater, Oxford

Sheldonian Theater, Oxford