Built Environment : Architectural Styles : Romantic Era :

The Gothic Revival Style : Illustrations

A style fancifully based on medieval churches, that heped free architecture from classicism

Diagnostics, other Examples, etc.

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Illustrations

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AlexanderJackson Downing's 1850 The Architecture of Country Houses

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"A Small Gothic Cottage"
Design IV - Figure 18

A tidy little 2.5-room-per-floor cottage authentically of stone.

The sailing ship in the background is an element of the Romanticism that Downing was heartfully encouraging with his writings.




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"A Gate Lodge"
Design VI - Figure 25

Another tidy little 2.5-room-per-floor cottage authentically of stone, complete with oversized two-story bay window with its own porch.

This appears to have two fronts, or at least is best seen at an angle.




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"Summetrical Cottage"
Design VII - Figure 27

A wood frame 3.5-room-per-floor cottage, one of the three most popular "Downing Cottage" models that were imitated frequently.




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"Villa Farm House"
Design XX - Figure 76

A decent-sized 4.5-room-per-floor house authentically of stone, with no less than five gables presented to the visitor.




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"A Plain Timber Cottage-Villa"
Design XXV - Figure 130

A large 5.5-room-per-floor house that Downing was content to allow humble board & batten siding.

The overall H-plan recalls medieval and post-medieval large buildings.




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"A Country House in the Pointed Style"
Design XXVI - Figure 133

A large 5.5-room-per-floor house (with kitchen and greenhouse wings).

The greenhouse balances the kitchen, but requires fresh greens to be trucked through the parlor and dining room!




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"Rural Gothic Villa"
Design XXIX - Figure 148

Like Design XXVI above, this is a large 4.5-room-per-floor house with kitchen and greenhouse wings.

Again the greenhouse balances the kitchen, but now only the library and hall need be disturbed.




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Calvert Vaux's 1864 Villas and Cottages

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"A Small Rural Double Rural"
Design No. 2 - page 130

Designed as two separate homes (for a farmer and a coachman), this is otherwise a typical "Triple-A" I-House, with extras in the front porch, gablet, and chimneys.




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"A Suburban Cottage"
Design No. 3 - page 134

Other than the stone masonry and above-average styling, this is a typical T-Plan house, a type that may have been inspired or emboldened by this publication, and which soon became common in the U.S., rivaling the popularity of the I-House type.




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"Design for an Artist's Studio"
page 168

Very like a small railroad station, this one-room studio was intended to be the starter house of a 4-room (on the first floor) house. The chimney is at the rear wall.