Victorian/Gothic Revival-Style Homes

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The original detached houses and townhouses built in the Victorian/Gothic style date back to the latter half of the 1800s. The most striking element of these homes is that they are teeming with ornamentation, with arches and frills made of wood or stone extending from the front door to the eaves beneath the roof, even further up to, perhaps an elaborate finial topping the peaked roof of a tower. Usually there is a porch, sometimes one that wraps around the front half of the house.

Victorian houses can be a hobby as much as a home, offering seemingly unending opportunity for owners to paint and wallpaper and restore. A central hallway ties the home’s public rooms like the parlor and maybe a library in the front together with a dining room in the heart of the home and the private space in the rear. Many of these homes have two upper levels for bedrooms. What you will not find much in a genuine Victorian is closet space. Back in those days, they used armoires instead. Victorian homes often are not as spacious inside as they appear to be from the street. Porches especially if they wrap around to the side make the homes appear bigger than they really are. Quite a bit of the interior space may be taken up by hallway and a grand stairway. Rooms largely are separate from each other reached from the hallway and that lack of openness can lead to dark interiors.

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