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The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria after whom it's named.

Varieties of Victorian architecture

British Arts and Crafts movement
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Jacobethan (the precursor to the Queen Anne style)
Neoclassicism
Neo-Grec
Painted ladies
Queen Anne
Renaissance Revival
Romanesque Revival (includes Richardsonian Romanesque)
Second Empire
Stick-Eastlake
Industrial architecture

There are also Folk and Shingle Style Victorian Houses. Please note that the names of architectural styles (as well as their adaptations) varied between countries. Many homes combined the elements of several different styles and are not easily distinguishable as one particular style or another. In the USA, Highly decorated houses are sometimes called gingerbread houses.
   Notable Victorian era cities include London, Boston, Richmond, Saint Paul, St. Louis, Louisville, Galveston, San Francisco, Glasgow, Melbourne, Manchester, Mumbai, Pittsburgh and New Orleans.
   In the USA, The South End of Boston is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as the oldest and largest Victorian neighborhood in the country. Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky also claims to be the nation's largest Victorian neighborhood. Richmond, Virginia is home to several large Victorian neighborhoods, the most prominent being The Fan and Church Hill. Church Hill has the distinction of being the place where Patrick Henry gave his famous Give me liberty or give me death speech at historic Saint John's church. The Fan is best known locally as Richmond's largest and most 'European' of Richmond's neighborhoods and nationally as the largest contiguous Victorian neighborhood in the United States.
   The Distillery District in Toronto contains the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America.
   The photo album L'Architecture Americaine by Albert Levy published in 1886 is perphaps the first recognition in Europe of the new forces emerging in American architecture.
   The Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio is recognized as having the largest collection of late Victorian and Edwardian homes in the United States, East of the Mississippi. ť See also: Georgian architecture.

Image:Gingerbread_House_Essex_CT.jpg|Example of an early Victorian "Gingerbread House", built in 1855 (Essex, Connecticut) Image:Santa Fe passenger terminal in San Diego prior to 1915.jpg|The California Southern Railroad's San Diego, California passenger terminal, built in 1887. Image:Z-5371.jpg|railroad depot at Disneyland in Anaheim, California Image:Victorian home restored.JPG|An example of the American Queen Anne style in Lebanon, Illinois. Image:Gingerbread (architecture).jpg|A "gingerbread" house. Image:AlamedaVictorian.jpg|A Victorian house in Alameda, California Image:royal_exhibition_building_tulips_straight.jpg|Melbourne's world heritage Royal Exhibition Building and fountain built in 1880 Image:Old rialto melbourne.jpg|Rialto buildings, Melbourne, built during the city's land boom of 1888 Image:Banff Springs Hotel1.jpg|Banff Springs Hotel, built in 1888 Image:Mayfield_old_house1.JPG| A grand Victorian style house located on the corner of Hanbury Street and Highfield Street, Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia Image:victorian-barrie.jpg|Late Victorian farmhouse near Barrie, Ontario, Canada Image:Stirling.jpg|Michelsen Farmstead built in 1899, is a Victorian style farmstead that's a Provincial Historic Site of Alberta located in the National Historic Site, Stirling, Alberta, Canada. Further Information

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