ITALIANATE ARCHITECTURE
Jacob
Carpenter
&
Clint Foster
1840-1880
Italianate Architecture was a style that came into the world about
160 years ago. The country villas in Northern Italy emphatically influenced
the concept of Italainate Architecture. These country villas were characterized
with a paint scheme that contrasted the American country homes in earlier
times, their color had a great resemblance to things in nature, for example,
grass, rocks, trees, and etc.
One of the most defining characteristics of this style was
the use of heavy decorative eave brackets, for this reason, the Italianate
style was nichnamed the Bracketed Style. The Italianate Style was so widely
used in America that it became known as the American Style. As time changed
it was called many other names also, such as "American Bracketed", "Lombard",
and "Tuscan".
In New York City and San Francisco some Italianate buildings still
remain. The Italianate buildings in New York are nicknamed teh Brown Stones.
In San Francisco the Italiante style is famous for having buildings that
are made of wood, the buildings that still remain survived the 1906 earthquake.
Windows
- either one or two pains with heavy surroundings
- tall, arched panes with hoods
- tall first floor windows, and angled bay windows
- large panes of glass in doors
- attics with a row
of awning windows between the eave brackets
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The Building
- Low -pitched or flat roofs
- Large eave brackets under the roof
- windows with one or two panes and heavy surroundings
- long porches or arcades
- two or three stories
- rectangular plan, sometimes square
- cupolas and quoins
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