fcsarch 24 gothic revival -- victorian era
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Victorian Era:
Gothic Revival
Victorian Era(Queen Victoria 1837-1901)
• Industrial Revolution → machine made
ornament → decoration for middle class.
• Railroads → no longer just local materials.
• Sentimentality about death.
Victorian Era• Integration of styles – all of history is available to borrow from.
• People wanted clear visual symbols of hierarchy.
• New money → people wanted architecture to provide a sense of identity.
Some Victorian Era Styles
Egyptian Revival
Greek Revival
Gothic Revival
Romanesque Revival
Georgian Revival
Eclecticism
Second Empire
Beaux Art
Tudor
Queen Anne
Arts & Crafts
Italianate
Shingle Style
Egyptian Revival
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Entrance Gate
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Sphinx
Grove St. Cemetery, New Haven, CT, (Architect: H. Austin) 1844-48
Egyptian Building, VA Commonwealth University, Richmond. Thomas Stewart (1845)
Egyptian Building, VA Commonwealth University
Gothic Revival
characterized by strong associational values of religion and nature. It is a revival style based on English and French precedents from the late 12th-15th centuries. Gothic Revival is found in both ecclesiastical and residential architecture with a wide range of archaeological accuracy, from Richard Upjohn's urban churches to "Carpenter's Gothic" cottages.
ENGLAND: Houses of Parliament, river facade
Trinity Church (1839) Richard Upjohn view from Wall Street
Trinity Church, Manhattan Richard Upjohn 1839
Trinity Church
Trinity Church
Trinity Church, interior
Brooklyn Bridge
Eastern State Penn.
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, NYC
Sloan's Homestead Architecture, title page
Sloan's Homestead Architecture
containing Forty Designs for Villas,
Cottages, and Farm Houses,
with Essays on Style, Construction, Landscape Gardening, Furniture etc., etc.
Illustrated with Upwards of Two Hundred Engravings
Samuel Sloan, Architect
Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott & Co.
1867
Gothic Cottage
Gothic Cottage, Northern Style
"Wedding Cake" House, Kennebunkport, ME (1826/1855)
Gothic Revival House, Salem, MA. (c. 1850)
MEMORAL HALL, Harvard Univ., VanBrunt (1870-78)
Memorial Hall Harvard Univ. Henry VanBrunt 1870
Memorial Hall, drawing
Memorial Hall, tower detail
Memorial Hall
Pre-tower restoration
Memorial Hall, plan
Memorial Hall, interior
Memorial Hall, interior window
Memorial Hall, interior dining hall
Westminster
Sheldonian Theater, Oxford
Sheldonian Theater, Oxford