Victorian architecture was popular from 1825 to 1850 during Queen Victoria's reign in England. Many early cottages were built as summer homes because they lacked insulation. Architects would often submit designs for houses that had identical floor plans but varying facades. Victorian homes were commonly painted white, beige or gray and a single color. By the 1870s, middle-class homes trended toward simpler, more open floor plans with living rooms replacing parlors. Victorian architecture drew inspiration from history, nature, geometry, and personal experiences to design homes, and the style is still used today in bed and breakfast inns, hotels, and historic sites.

1. By- Veronica Douglas

2. Greek Revival
• popular style
in the
Victorian era
• from 1825 to
1850 when
queen Victoria
became queen.

3. Summer Houses
•Many early
cottages were
built as
summer homes
•because they
had no
insulation.

4. Similar but
different
•Architects and
builders often
submitted
alternate
designs
•a house where
the floor plans
were identical
•and only the
facades (front
of a building)
varied.

5. Paint Colors
•painted all one
color
•white, beige or
gray.

6. More Modern
Victorian
Architecture
•middle-class
turned away
from the clutter
•to more simple,
open, flexible
spaces
• the living room
replaced the
parlor

7. Public opinion of
Victorian
architecture
•Before the
1870’s some
people thought
that Victorian
architecture
was a failure.

8. What inspired
Victorian
architecture
•history
•nature
•geometry
• theory
•personal
inspiration to
create their
designs

9. What Victorian
architecture
used for today
•bed and
breakfast inns
• hotels
•public historic
sites