The document discusses the Gothic Revival style of the Victorian Era. Some key points: - Gothic Revival was popular during the Victorian Era and was inspired by English and French Gothic architecture from the 12th-15th centuries. - It is characterized by associations with religion and nature. Gothic Revival was used for both ecclesiastical and residential buildings in varying levels of archaeological accuracy. - Examples of Gothic Revival architecture mentioned include Trinity Church in Manhattan, Memorial Hall at Harvard University, and Westminster Abbey, showing the wide adoption of the style.

1. Victorian Era: Gothic Revival

2. Victorian Era (Queen Victoria 1837-1901) • Industrial Revolution -> machine made ornament -> decoration for middle class. • Railroads -> no longer just local materials. • Sentimentality about death.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Egyptian Revival

6. Mount Auburn Cemetery, Entrance Gate Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston

7. Mount Auburn Cemetery, Sphinx

8. Grove St. Cemetery, New Haven, CT, (Architect: H. Austin) 1844-48

9. Egyptian Building, VA Commonwealth University, Richmond. Thomas Stewart (1845)

10. Egyptian Building, VA Commonwealth University

12. ENGLAND: Houses of Parliament, river facade

13. Trinity Church (1839) Richard Upjohn view from Wall Street Trinity Church, Manhattan Richard Upjohn 1839

14. Trinity Church

15. Trinity Church

16. Trinity Church, interior

17. Brooklyn Bridge

18. Eastern State Penn.

19. Saint Patrick's Cathedral, NYC

20. 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

21. Gothic Cottage

22. Gothic Cottage, Northern Style

23. "Wedding Cake" House, Kennebunkport, ME (1826/1855)

24. Gothic Revival House, Salem, MA. (c. 1850)

25. MEMORAL HALL, Harvard Univ., VanBrunt (1870-78) Memorial Hall Harvard Univ. Henry VanBrunt 1870

26. Memorial Hall, drawing

27. Memorial Hall, tower detail

28. Memorial Hall

29. Pre-tower restoration

30. Memorial Hall, plan

31. Memorial Hall, interior

32. Memorial Hall, interior window

33. Memorial Hall, interior dining hall

34. Westminster

35. Sheldonian Theater, Oxford

36. Sheldonian Theater, Oxford