Folk Victorian

Midwestern home built in 1904. Modest exterior, interior features much woodwork

The Orin Jordan House in Whittier, California is an example of a Folk Victorian.

Folk Victorian is an architecture style employed for some homes in the United States between 1870 and 1910, though isolated examples continued to be built well into the 1930's. Folk Victorian is A subset of Victorian architecture, it differentiates itself from other subsets of Victorian architecture (such as Queen Anne) by being less elaborate and having more regular floor plans.^[1] Examples include the Bacon Hotel, Albert Spencer Wilcox Beach House, Lost Creek Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot (1892), James B. Carden House (1885), Ephriam M. Baynard House, and Sibley's General Store (1899) in the Sibley's and James Store Historic District.

Architecture of the United States

Colonial	American colonial architecture Colonial Georgian Dutch Colonial French Colonial German Colonial Spanish Colonial

Early Republic	Adam Federal Jeffersonian

Mid-19th century	Greek Revival Italianate Gothic Revival

Victorian	Richardsonian Romanesque Second Empire American Renaissance Folk Stick style Queen Anne Shingle Territorial

Late-19th to mid-20th century	Beaux-Arts Chicago School Colonial Revival Dutch Colonial Revival Mediterranean Revival Mission Revival Spanish Colonial Revival Tudor Revival Pueblo Revival Territorial Revival American Craftsman Prairie School American Foursquare California bungalow Art Deco Streamline Moderne PWA Moderne

Post-World War II to current	International style Usonian American ranch Modern Postmodern Neo-eclectic New Classical Architecture

Vernacular	Hall and parlor house Central-passage house Log cabin Cape Cod Saltbox Creole cottage Dogtrot house I-house Shotgun house Sod house Carpenter Gothic First Period

References

↑ 1870 - 1910: Folk Victorian; Vernacular Architecture From the Machine Age by Jackie Craven About.com

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