Victorian Building Styles, 1880-1910
Victorian Romanesque Revival, 1880-1900
The Victorian Romanesque Revival style was used extensively for civic, commercial, and ecclesiastical designs, and to a lesser extent for residences. In this style, semicircular door and window openings highlight brick and stone masonry walls. This superficial reference to the architecture of the medieval period is often enhanced by the use of rock-faced stone arches for entries, window headers, and sills--in otherwise smooth-surfaced masonry walls.
Characteristics:
--buildings of substantial weight and mass
--gable ends terminating in parapets
--masonry walls highlighted by rock-faced arches, lintels, and sills
--semicircular arches used in windows, doors, and porches
--rock-faced foundation
--blind arcading
--polychrome masonry
--foliated capitals
--tower roof topped with a hip know and or/finial
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