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Folk Victorian Architecture Just plain folk could afford these no fuss Folk Victorian homes, built between 1870 and 1910. Here are facts and photos.
ARCHITECTURE FOR TRAVELERS - Rabbit Hill Inn in Vermont The Rabbit Hill Inn in Lower Waterford, Vermont dates back to the years just after America's revolutionary war, and its details tell a story about changing tastes and needs in the emerging nation. - Your guide to the architecture of exciting travel d
About Breakers Mansion - Newport Guilded Age Home by Richard Morris Hunt Breakers Mansion, or 'Breakers,' is the largest and most elaborate of Newport's Gilded Age cottages. It was commissioned by Cornelius Vanderbilt II and designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
MYSTERY HOUSE: Is it a Victorian? - Architecture Archives MYSTERY HOUSE: Is it a Victorian? - The neighbors call it a "Victorian," but is it? Find clues and solve the mystery......
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Ballarat, Victoria, the city with a gold-rush past, is the state's largest inland city.
The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture. - Review - book reviews
J. Mordaunt Crook. John Murray. [pounds]25.00. 354 pages. ISBN 0-7195-6040-3. Prof Crook is a well established architectural historian and has written ......(Continue Reading) A bit of rough: William Cook explains why brutalism, that most provocative assault on suburban sentiment, is now cherished again - Architecture Week/2
Throughout the Thatcherite Eighties and Majorite Nineties, they were the buildings we all loved to hate. But over the past few years, something quite ......(Continue Reading)Shelf Life - Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind - Review
Frank Furness (1839-1912) might be called the grandfather of modern American architecture: He taught Louis Sullivan, who in turn taught Frank Lloyd Wright....(Continue Reading)Portrait of the victorian age
Tanya Harrod on the V&A's ambitious but not wholly successful new blockbuster No museum is currently more criticised by journalists than the V&A. As someone who spends many happy hours there I have...(Continue Reading)Victorian britain
Obsessed by a fear of revolution, haunted by a collapse of faith, it yet nurtured great minds, great art and a kind of socialism Although it is said ......(Continue Reading)
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