1870 Italianate
Architect: Henry Mursinna
The Italianate style began in England with the picturesque movement of the 1840s. Builders began to design fanciful recreations of Italian Renaissance villas. By the late 1860s, Italianate was the most popular house style in the United States.
Italianate houses have many of these features:
(http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/Italianate.htm)
Where Does the Term "Victorianism" Come From?
The term "Victorianism" was derived from the reigning monarch of the time, Queen Victoria. The term reflects the heavy British influence on the United States. The growing upper class of the Gilded Age mimicked the high society of their mother country in dress, morality, and mannerisms.
