God Save the Queen: It’s Victorian Splendor Week!

  |  March 9, 2015
16 elm street coxsackie

16 Elm Street, Coxsackie: $249,000

This week on Upstater, we’ll be stepping into the Way Back Machine and heading off to the 19th Century to explore the ornate, intricate home designs of the Victorian age. The style rose to popularity during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837-1901 (hence the name “Victorian”) and encompasses a vast array of subsets within the classification, including Queen Anne, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Folk Victorian, Stick-Style…we could go on. While Queen Victoria’s reign ended in the early 20th century, the Victorian style persists in a lot of Contemporary homes, but in our eyes, there’s nothing that beats an antique Victorian, where the Devil is truly in the painstaking details. While the Victorian era was complicated, to say the least (child labor, poverty, prostitution, overpopulation and suggestions of Cannibalism to remedy the problem , cholera epidemics in London, etc.), we can still appreciate the architecture, especially presented against the picturesque backdrops of the Hudson Valley and Catskills. Stay tuned…

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