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Marion Blockley - access and interpretation
Ben Freeston - architect
Trevor Humphreys - QS
Steve Mason - structural engineer
gf 4822 Mansions - Wetmore House - aka George Peabody House - aka Chateau-sur-Mer - Newport
Chateau-sur-Mer is considered to be one of the finest examples of Victorian architecture in this
country. It was built in 1852 for William S. Wetmore who made his fortune in the China trade.
golden sunburst and fishscale shingles on this gable, all beautifully painted
Hoffman Avenue between 22nd and Alvarado - at Alvarado
SAN FRANCISCO
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This pretty little 1898 house isn't listed in the city's historic homes guide, suggesting that its restoration may have been relatively recent.
Monteith Historic District, Albany, Oregon. You can read more about our town's historic homes at albanyvisitors.com/historic-albany/tours/seems-like-old-t...
The Town Hall tower in close-up - remarkably assertive with its own colonnade and a stretched cupola to emphasise the sense of verticality. The architect, Brodrick, came from Hull and was a precocious talent and an unfathomable character - and the subject of a TV documentary by Jonathan Meades.
I guess this style works in dry climate. Carroll Aveue must have been the quietest place I've eperienced in more crowded areas of L.A.
Liberty's of London and the Aesthetic Movement, a multimedia presentation by Ian Cox, Director of the Victorian Society in America's London Summer School, the talk focused on the origins and development of one of London's best known high end department stores founded in the late 19th century by Arthur Liberty and famed at that time for its connections with the aesthetic movement and "artistic" product ranges. The talk will include an update on the store's recent history.
It concluded with a description of the summer study programs offered by The Victorian Society in America. #VicSocAmerica #VSASummerSchools #VSALondon
Photograph by James Russiello
Ian Cox is a decorative arts historian with special interests in historic interiors, furniture and ceramics. For many years he taught in the History of Art Department at Glasgow University and was Director of the Christie's Master's Programme in the History of the Decorative Arts. He is currently Director of the Victorian Society of America London Summer School, which this year is enjoying its 40th anniversary.
For more information on the Victorian Society in America’s summer schools in London, England, Newport, Rhode Island, and Chicago, Illinois, please email summerschools@Victoriansociety.org or our website www.VictorianSociety.org
About the Merchant's House: Built in 1832, the Merchant’s House was home to a prosperous merchant family and their Irish servants for almost 100 years. Complete with the family’s original furnishings and personal possessions, the house offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865. www.merchantshouse.org
Victorian Society in America London Summer School - Visit to the Oxford Union Murals (1857–1859) within the Old Library of the Oxford Union Society painted by Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, July 11, 2013
Deserted arcades at Leadenhall Market. Formerly London's poultry market - note the hooks over the shopfronts for hanging birds.
1898 Queen Anne built for iron magnate Frank Miller
Monteith Historic District, Albany, Oregon. You can read more about our town's historic homes at albanyvisitors.com/historic-albany/tours/seems-like-old-t...
I'm not educated in these things but it looks like it might have been a Victorian farmhouse rather than an urbane middle class dwelling.
eclectic Victorian architecture
a house in San Francisco
photo circa 1990. guess: Noe Valley? --- San Francisco 1990_53
Photographs taken c. mid 1980' s when the structure was derelict and boarded up prior to a full reconstruction
Thomas McMahon House (1865/1899)
№ 109 Liberty Street between Dolores Street and Guerrero Street
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№ 2113 and 2115 Chartres Street
Faubourg Marigny , New Orleans
'elaborately detailed double shotgun Victorian featuring a gable-front roof with 'fancywork' shingles and a scalloped verge. The gallery, supported by turned colonnettes, has a spindlework band and carved spandrels which combine to form arches with central bosses. Full length segmental-arch openings have very decorative architraves with moorish motif, pierced work spandrels and tripartite cornices. The facade has drop siding and quoins.
Built around 1890
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Liberty's of London and the Aesthetic Movement, a multimedia presentation by Ian Cox, Director of the Victorian Society in America's London Summer School, the talk focused on the origins and development of one of London's best known high end department stores founded in the late 19th century by Arthur Liberty and famed at that time for its connections with the aesthetic movement and "artistic" product ranges. The talk will include an update on the store's recent history.
It concluded with a description of the summer study programs offered by The Victorian Society in America. #VicSocAmerica #VSASummerSchools #VSALondon
Photograph by James Russiello
Ian Cox is a decorative arts historian with special interests in historic interiors, furniture and ceramics. For many years he taught in the History of Art Department at Glasgow University and was Director of the Christie's Master's Programme in the History of the Decorative Arts. He is currently Director of the Victorian Society of America London Summer School, which this year is enjoying its 40th anniversary.
For more information on the Victorian Society in America’s summer schools in London, England, Newport, Rhode Island, and Chicago, Illinois, please email summerschools@Victoriansociety.org or our website www.VictorianSociety.org
About the Merchant's House: Built in 1832, the Merchant’s House was home to a prosperous merchant family and their Irish servants for almost 100 years. Complete with the family’s original furnishings and personal possessions, the house offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865. www.merchantshouse.org
The Banqueting Hall.
Despite all the opulent detailing in the Banqueting Hall, it’s a model of restraint compared with elsewhere in the castle. There’s an unusual air of sobriety – the character of the original medieval interior still remains.
Winter Smoking Room. The gilded figure holds a representation of the sun. Apples are gathered on the right in the corner of the Autumn panel.
School of Art, designed in Ruskinian Gothic style by J H Chamberlain, built 1884-85. This is the Margaret Street façade and entrance porch surrounded by a profusion of carved decorative stonework. A frieze of Doulton tilework extends across the frontage.
Built in 1899 in the Colonial Revival style, it is one of the few remaining examples of Victorian architecture in the Arlington Heights area.
Visit the interactive maps and images about Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom by The City Project.