Machine generated contents note: Victorian House Planning Solutions to Nineteenth-Century Housing Needs -- Gothic Revival Style A Fusion of Romanticism and Historicism -- Italianate Style American Homes with Renaissance Spirit -- Second Empire Style The French Connection -- Stick / Eastlake Style Design Reform as Fashionable Taste -- Queen Anne Style Grand Finale of Victorian Eclecticism -- Colonial Revival / Classical Revival Styles American Nationalism and the Beaux Arts Influence -- Shingle Style Toward Simplicity and the First Bay Tradition -- Hybrid Styles Singular Combinations of Multiple Styles -- The Edwardian Era Postscript for the Victorian Age -- Before And After Transformations of Restoration and Renovation -- Victorian Revival Interiors The Future of Nineteenth-Century Design.
Summary:
Local residents, visitors, and armchair travellers will all be delighted and informed by this unique visual resource. It combines an insightful study of San Francisco and Bay Area history with a thorough survey of its Victorian-era house styles. Prominently featured are house museums to visit among the many fine examples of 19th-century homes from the City and its neighbouring communities across the Bay.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.