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St Pancras railway station

Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace building

The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles that were employed in the Victorian era. This kind of architecture is named after Queen Victoria. These architectural styles include:

Gothic Revival: examples are St Pancras railway station (1868); the rebuilt main chambers of the Houses of Parliament (1850 to 1870); Natural History Museum.

Buildings made possible by new technology. The obvious example being the Crystal Palace (1851), which used cast iron and glass as its main elements. See Covent Garden and many provincial markets for the same method of construction.

Completely different was the Arts and Crafts movement, which aimed at human-scale buildings based on traditional styles. It had effect in some of the new towns built in the late 19th to early 20th century in Britain.

Philip Webb's Red House in Upton

The Red House in Bexleyheath

Images for kids

St. Pancras railway station and Midland Hotel in London, opened in 1868
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London
The China Merchants Bank Building is an example of Victorian architecture found in Shanghai, China
Modern skyscrapers on Collins Street, Melbourne, have been deliberately set back from the street in order to retain Victorian-era buildings.
The Painted Ladies are an example of Victorian architecture found in San Francisco, California.
Victorian facades on 16th Street, San Francisco
An example of residential architecture in the Old West End District (Toledo, Ohio), a well preserved historic district full of Victorian architecture
Palace of Westminster, Neo-Gothic completed in 1870. Designed by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin
Royal Albert Hall, London
The "Red Brick" Victoria Building at the University of Liverpool, completed in 1893 in Gothic Revival style. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse
The Victorian Pavilion at The Oval cricket ground in London
Victorian School of Art and Science at Stroud, Gloucestershire
House on the Hardwick House estate near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Manchester Town Hall
The John Rylands Library in Manchester
The Aston Webb building at the University of Birmingham, UK
Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham, UK
The Gilbert Scott Building of the University of Glasgow, as viewed from Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. An example of the Gothic Revival style
North of Scotland Bank in Aberdeen by Archibald Simpson 1839–42
Balmoral Castle, completely rebuilt for Queen Victoria, an example of the Scots Baronial style
Walsall Victorian Arcade, UK
Barclays Bank building, Sutton, Greater London
Forth Rail Bridge, Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Somerville College, Oxford, UK
Melbourne's world heritage Royal Exhibition Building, built in 1880 (Free Classical)
General Post Office, Sydney in the Free Classical style (1891)
Hotel Windsor, 1885
St Peters Cathedral, Adelaide, South Australia (Gothic Revival)
Sydney Town Hall, in Second Empire style
Queen Victoria Building in Romanesque style (1898)
South Melbourne Town Hall in Second Empire style
St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney in Victorian Gothic architecture (1882)
Victorian Mannerist architecture lining a street in Sydney
Princess Theatre, Melbourne
State Library of Victoria of the Academic Classical style (1870)
North Terrace of the University of Adelaide in Victorian Tudor style
Italianate home in Randwick, New South Wales
Filigree style terraces in Surry Hills with ornate iron-wrought detailing
Second Empire and Filigree residence in South Yarra, Victoria
St. Andrew's Church
St. John's Cathedral
Former Marine Police Headquarters (now officially named as '1881 Heritage', which is a hotel and a shopping mall)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, by Frank Furness
Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by Henry Hobson Richardson
The California Southern Railroad's San Diego passenger terminal, built in 1887
Banff Springs Hotel, Banff National Park, Alberta, built in 1888
Brooklyn Bridge, 1883, New York City
John Steinbeck's childhood home in Salinas, California
Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May Historic District, New Jersey, by Frank Furness
The Saitta House, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York, built in 1899 is designed in the Queen Anne style
1880s photo of 653 W Wrightwood (now 655 W Wrightwood) in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois
The Italianate style Farnam Mansion in Oneida, New York. Built circa 1862
James J. Hill House in St. Paul, Minnesota, built in 1891
Victorian gazebo in Ohio
Series of Italianate tenements in Over-The-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, Detroit, Michigan, built 1904
Gingerbread trim on an 1882 house in Cape May, New Jersey

See also

In Spanish: Arquitectura victoriana para niños

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