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Styles Description
Spanish Colonial
Spanish Colonial constructions are of solid masonry and
show two fundamentally different roof types wich are found in Spain and her
World Colonies.
Those types are the pitched roof and the flat roof. Spanish
buildings commonly have long, narrow porches (galerias) that open onto internal
courtyards and function as sheltered passageways between rooms, wich usually
lacked internal connecting doorways.
In Spanish and Mexican prototypes, the
porches often took the form of colonial arcades with elaborate masonry arches
supporting the roof.
Tudor
Tudor style has different identifying features like the
steeply pitched roof, usually side gabled (less commonly hipped or front gabled), facade dominated by one or more prominent cross gables, usually steeply pitched,
decorative (not structural) half timbering present on about half of examples,
tall, narrow windows, usually in multiple groups and with multi plane glazing,
massive chimneys, commonly crowned by decorative chimney pots.
Victorian
Victorian architecture dates from the
second half of the
19th century, when America was exploring new approaches to building and design.
There are a variety of Victorian styles, including
Second Empire, Italianate,
Stick, and Queen Anne
Advancements in machine technology meant that Victorian-era
builders could easily incorporate mass-produced ornamentation such as brackets,
spindles, and patterned shingles.
The last true Victorians were constructed in the early 1900s, but contemporary
builders often borrow Victorian ideas, designing eclectic "neo-Victorians."
These homes combine modern materials with 19th century details, such as curved
towers and spindled porches. A number of Victorian styles are recreated on the
fanciful "Main Street" at Disney theme parks in Florida, California, and Europe.
QUEEN ANNE
Of all the Victorian house styles, Queen Anne is the most elaborate and the most
eccentric. The style is often called romantic and feminine, yet it is the
product of a most unromantic era, the machine age.
Queen Anne became an architectural fashion in the 1880s and 1890s, during the
industrial revolution
Steeply pitched roof of irregular shape, usually with a dominant front-facing
gable; patterned shingles, bow windows, and other devices used to avoid a smooth-walled
appearance.
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