VICTORIAN

Victorian--Common to some degree almost everywhere, Victorian architecture, which dates from the second half of the 19th century, has two main styles: Second Empire and Queen Anne. The former is big and boxy, with mansard roofs, symmetrical facades, and heavy ornamentation. When Walt Disney decided to re-create at Disneyland the main street of a typical 19th-century small town, the style he used was Second Empire. Queen Anne is a much quirkier affair, with asymmetrical facades, curved towers and porches, protruding bay windows, steeply pitched roofs, and elaborate spindlework ornamentation.