(Victorian home) The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era.
A scale diagram of the arrangement of rooms in one story of a building
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan, or floorplan, is a diagram, usually to scale, showing the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure.
(Floor planning) Floorplanning is the act of designing of a floorplan, which is a kind of bird's-eye view of a structure.
(floor plan) scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level; contrasts with elevation
Brick American Foursquare Home, Highland Park, Birmingham, Alabama
American foursquare style home, with classical elements, in the , Highland Park neighborhood, Birmingham, Alabama. The American Foursquare was most popular from 1885 to 1930. It was a post-Victorian style that shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. The boxy foursquare shape provided roomy interiors for homes on small city lots. The simple, square shape also made the Foursquare style especially practical for mail order house kits from Sears and other catalog companies.
American Foursquare houses usually have these features:
Simple box shape
Two-and-a-half stories high
Four-room floor plan
Low-hipped roof with deep overhang
Large central dormer
Full-width porch with wide stairs
Brick, stone, stucco, concrete block, or wood siding
Creative builders often dressed up the basic foursquare form. Although foursquare houses are always the same square shape, they can have features borrowed from any of these styles:
Queen Anne - bay windows, small towers, or "gingerbread" trim
Mission - stucco siding and roof parapets
Colonial Revival - pediments or porticos
Craftsman - exposed roof rafters, beamed ceilings, built-in cabinetry, and carefully crafted woodwork
Beautiful American Foursquare Home, Highland Park Nieghborhood, Birmingham, Alabama
The American Foursquare was most popular from 1885 to 1930. It was a post-Victorian style that shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright. The boxy foursquare shape provided roomy interiors for homes on small city lots. The simple, square shape also made the Foursquare style especially practical for mail order house kits from Sears and other catalog companies.
American Foursquare houses usually have these features:
Simple box shape
Two-and-a-half stories high
Four-room floor plan
Low-hipped roof with deep overhang
Large central dormer
Full-width porch with wide stairs
Brick, stone, stucco, concrete block, or wood siding
Creative builders often dressed up the basic foursquare form. Although foursquare houses are always the same square shape, they can have features borrowed from any of these styles:
Queen Anne - bay windows, small towers, or "gingerbread" trim
Mission - stucco siding and roof parapets
Colonial Revival - pediments or porticos
Craftsman - exposed roof rafters, beamed ceilings, built-in cabinetry, and carefully crafted woodwork