Victorian Houses

One of the reasons I am fascinated by Victorian houses is because they were the first houses built for the middle class that you and I would recognize as houses. Prior to the Civil War, most people lived in structures that may have looked like houses to modern eyes (on the outside at least), but they weren't. No matter how beautifully decorated, the blunt truth is, they were uninsulated and drafty, heated only by open …

… Cleveland expanded, and the great houses, one by one, were bulldozed and replaced by utilitarian buildings. There is nothing left from its Victorian glory days. I treasure the survivors, the lucky few who weren't sold by disinterested descendants to parking-lot developers, or partitioned into squalid rooming houses and condemned by HEW. The photos in this Web site are my way of sharing some of the houses I have found with other Victorian house fans.