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Victorian Styles: 1880-1910
Victorian Romanesque Revival, 1880-1900 The Victorian Romanesque Revival is a style that was used extensively for civic, commercial, and ecclesiastical designs and to a lesser extent for residences. The brick and stone masonry walls of Romanesque Revival buildings are highlighted by semicircular openings for doors and windows. This superficial reference to the architecture of the medieval period is often enhanced by the use of rock-faced stone arches for entries, window headers, and sills in otherwise smooth-surfaced masonry walls.
Fig. 200: House, c. 1895, Salem, Utah County. This is an example of the Victorian house type called the central block with projecting bays. Entry into this side-passage plan is by way of the porch at the base of the large, flat-roofed tower.
Characteristics: —buildings of substantial weight and mass —gable ends terminating in parapets —masonry walls highlighted by rock-faced arches, lintels, and sills —semicircular arches used in windows, doors, and porches —rock-faced foundation —blind arcading —polychrome masonry —foliated capitals —tower roof topped with a hip knob and/or finial
Fig. 201: Peteetneet School, 1896, Payson, Utah County. This Victorian Romanesque Revival school building displays the combination of brick and rock-faced stone masonry so common to the style.
