Victorian glory : in San Francisco and the Bay Area / Paul Duchscherer ; photographs by Douglas Keister.

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0670893765 
ISBN 13
9780670893768 
Category
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Publication Year
2001 
Publisher
Pages
200 
Subject
Architecture, Domestic--California--San Francisco Bay Area. Architecture, Victorian--California--San Francisco Bay Area. Victoriana in interior decoration--California--San Francisco Bay Area. 
Abstract
Machine generated contents note: PREFACE: Musings on San Francisco, the Bay Area, Victorian homes, and this book -- INTRODUCTION: New Spain to the Gold Rush: Overview of Local History and Lore -- VICTORIAN HOUSE PLANNING: Solutions to Nineteenth-Century Housing Needs -- GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE: A Fusion of Romanticism and Historicism -- ITALIANATE STYLE: American Homes with Renaissance Ideals -- SECOND EMPIRE STYLE: The French Connection -- STICK / EASTLAKE STYLE: Design Reform as Fashionable Taste -- QUEEN ANNE STYLE: Grand Finale of Victorian Eclecticism -- COLONIAL REVIVAL / CLASSICAL REVIVAL STYLES: American Nationalism and the Beaux Arts Influence -- SHINGLE STYLE: Toward Simplicity and the First Bay Tradition -- HYBRID STYLES: Singular Combinations of Multiple Styles -- THE EDWARDIAN ERA: Postscript for the Victorian Age -- BEFORE AND AFTER: Transformations of Restoration and Renovation -- VICTORIAN REVIVAL INTERIORS: The Future of Nineteenth-Century Design -- LISTING OF HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUMS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- RESOURCES -- CREDITS. 
Description
200 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. 
Biblio Notes
Related names: Keister, Douglas.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197).  
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