Victorian | Multi-faceted Highly ornamented Elaborate flamboyant |
I
have long been fascinated by old houses and their relationship to history.
The Victorian style is connected to Queen Victoria's British rule between 1837 and 1901. During the course of this long reign, many dramatic cultural, political, economic, industrial and scientific changes occurred. In addition to architecture, a variety of cultural sensibilities and ideologies have come to be associated with the term Victorian. Americans adopted Victorian values and the era lasted until World War I began in 1914. This period also coincided with the discovery and emergence of photography.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” - Charles Dickens
