Is this house considered a Victorian?

[pgoodcake]

Hello

This house was built in 1900 and has a slate roof. Is it a Victorian?

Thanks in advance for any info

[Gothichome]

Yes, most people would consider your home a Victorian although it would be based on the style rather than the actual period of queen Victoria. She moved on to visit here ansectors in 1901. Saying that the homes built shortly after here death were still being built in true Victorian style.
Your home in my view is sitting on the bubble. It in my eye looks to be a very simplified queen Anne style of the late Victorian period. There are smarter people here who may have more info. Oh buy the way, very nice hooded window in the gable end.

[Neighmond]

A good solid Edwardian house!

[pgoodcake]

Thanks for the info Gothichome and Neighmond

Are the windows in keeping with the Victorian/Edwardian period? What kind of original windows would be found on a house from this period?

Thanks

[heartwood]

welcome to wavyglass!

2 over 2 would be consistent with a victorian style...with a queen anne, you may see a double hung or fixed window with a large clear pane of glass and smaller square colored glass around the perimeter...

...jade

[Neighmond]

my house was built in 1914 and has original 1/1's which would look all right in yours. 2/2, like Jade said, are a little earlier (pre-1900 in this area.) That house sort of strikes me as a generation or two past settlement house; when did your area initially settle?

[pgoodcake]

Thanks Jade and Neighmond


Neighmond - this area initially settled in 1773. It was incorporated into a borough in 1886.

[pgoodcake]

In this picture you can see the front entrance much better. It appears the current door is shorter and wider than the original door. The dark area above the door has been filled in with brick that doesn't match the existing brick.

Would there have been a narrower front door with a stained glass section above the door? What kind of door might have been on this house? One with stained glass?

[Neighmond]

Looks like it had a transom at one time. You saw a lot of that up to about 1900 around here, a little later in der hinterlands.

[Vintrest (WavyGlass)]

The problem here is not with the house, its with the changes that have been made to it since it was built. That big divided pane window in the front is more modern, probably from after the 1930's and even later if aluminum. Same for the divided pane window upstairs toward the back-almost certainly a replacement. (double hung sash was the most common type of window circa 1900) The vinyl porch ceiling is clearly modern and concrete porches were seldom found except in early 1900's concrete block houses. Those hefty brick piers supporting the roof may have replaced turned posts with gingerbread brackets/corbels. It appears besides the massing (form) of the house, the only visible vestiges of the Victorian era are found in the gable with the patterned shingles. As it is, the makeover effect someone tried to make was vaguely "Colonial" but I suspect the original appearance was far more late Queen Anne in appearance. I'd be quite surprised if the interior had not been changed as well. But, in defense of the house, from the 1920's onward architectural writers were very harshly critical of anything Victorian so countless Victorian houses were subsequently painted in plain white to hide ornate details and others were severely "de-Victorianized" to look like Georgians or other Colonial styles. Queen Anne style houses with towers or turrets were decapitated. I recall looking at some late 1940's popular house magazines and they were full of "how-to" articles about methods to eradicate the old Victorian flavor in older houses. It was not until the 1970's that public opinion had anything favorable to say about Victorians. Today, perhaps because they are truly getting old and so few intact examples remain, Victorian era survivors are often coveted but until recently, that was not the case.