various victorian houses and styles

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1840 - 1885: Italianate Italianate became the most popular housing style in Victorian America. Italianate is also known as the Tuscan, the Lombard , or simply, the bracketed  style. Old World ideals are transplanted to the United States in this Italianate style home, located in Cape ay, !ew "ersey. Italianate houses have many of these features:  #ow$pitched or %lat roo% &alanced, symmetrical rectangular shape 'all appearance, with (, ), or * stories Wide, o+erhanging ea+es with brackets and cornices  Suare cupola -orch topped with balustraded  balconies 'all, narrow, double$paned windows with hood moldings Side bay window ea+ily molded double doors /oman or segmented arches abo+e windows and doors About the Italianate Style:  'he Italianate style began in 0ngland with the picturesue mo+ement o% the 12*3s. 4or the pre+ious (33 years, 0nglish homes tended to be %ormal and classical in style. With the picturesue, mo+ement, howe+er, builders began to design %anci%ul recreations o% Italian /enaissance +illas. When the Italianate style mo+ed to the United States, it was reinterpreted again to create a uniuely American style. &y the late 1253s, Italianate was the most popular house style in the United States. istorians say that Italianate became the %a+ored style %or two reasons6 Italianate homes could be constructed with many di%%erent building materials, and the style could be adapted to modest budgets. 1

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