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Victorian Style or Victorian Era?

February 3, 2017 by Matt Fuller, GRI Leave a Comment

Matt and Omar sit down to talk about something that is quintessentially San Francisco: Victorians! In our true, one-take no edit fashion we managed to meander down a few side alleys while discussing Victorian Style or Victorian Era?

Victorian Style or Victorian Era? What if a building was built in the Victorian style after the Victorian era? Why did people think it was a good idea to paint a Victorian battleship gray? Or commit a wide variety of other equally nefarious Victorian abuses? We’ve seen some crazy things happen to Victorians over the year, from brick-pox to asbestos shingles to art deco medallions and stucco: Art Deco Victorian – a mashup that wasn’t really necessary?

Art deco victorian, a mashup that shouldn't exist

The Victorian style is tightly associated with San Francisco, with the painted ladies in the 700 block of Steiner across from Alamo Square being perhaps the most famous.

What are your favorite Victorian homes in San Francisco? What’s your favorite style? Are you a Queen-Anne enthusiast or a stickler for an Eastlake Stick? Italianate? The combinations are almost infinite, and we’ve had the pleasure of representing buyer and sellers in some amazingly restored Victorian homes over decades of real estate sales.

It’s always a great pleasure to see a Victorian lovingly restored and brought back to grandeur – especially when someone has the resources to put steel in so they can open up the floor plan. A classic exterior that hides an open and modern interior is one of the most winning combinations in San Francisco. Victorians liked a lot of little rooms, but modern life is much more oriented toward open plan living.

We’d love to hear your questions about Victorians, or any architectural style, feel free to reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or just leave a message right here in the comments section of the blog. We do read them!

 

Filed Under: Blog, Only in SF, SF History, Victorian, video

The Victorians of… Albuquerque

April 29, 2013 by Matt Fuller, GRI Leave a Comment

I’ve been spending some time in Albuquerque, NM lately. It’s a lovely town, as long as oxygen (it’s at about 5,000 feet above sea level), trees, or water aren’t on your list of must haves.

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The homes that I took pictures of on this particular visit are located in the Huning Highland Historic District, which is very close to the Highland Park, near the Albuquerque Press Club.

Living in San Francisco, I was struck by how much space there were between the homes. When I think Victorian, I don’t think fully detached homes. But in Albuquerque, the Victorian homes were pretty much all fully detached. They were beautiful, in their own rambling and sprawling way.

And, as you can see from a good look at the pictures, the Victorian homes of Albuquerque range from the beautifully restored and well done to the burnt-out and condemned “opportunities” that are awaiting a loving family to come along and restore these homes to their former glory.

The Victorian homes of Albquerque are also right next to another fascinating building, the Hotel Parc Central. The Hotel Parc Central was originally built as a company hospital by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. When the railroad was no longer able to financially suppor the hospital, it closed, and over the years was a variety of things. Before becoming a hotel, it was a psychiatric lockdown facility, and you can google the internet for some rather horrifying stories, as well as plenty of stories about hauntings in the building.

The Victorians of Albuquerque are located in what we would call a “transitional” neighborhood, and it will be interesting to see how the neighborhood continues to develop and change. Regardless, if you ever find yourself in Albuquerque and want to do something a bit off the beaten path, I’d encourage you to take a look at these beautiful Victorian homes.

Filed Under: Blog, Victorian

Victorian Abuse

January 13, 2012 by Matt Fuller, GRI Leave a Comment

I’ve written about Victorian abuse before, and this morning I noticed another rather egregious example at the corner of Fell and Divisadero (NOPA, for those of you keeping track of such things).

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As you can see from the above photo slideshow, behind the scaffolding and with a fresh paint job, the Victorian at the corner of Fell and Divisadero was once a glorious structure that has suffered the ignominy of having a liquor store installed behind an industrial roll-up garage door on the ground floor.

And it’s wrong, I tell you, wrong! Victorian homes weren’t designed with garages (or liquor stores) in mind, but couldn’t we at least do something (even slightly) tasteful at the ground level? I’m not sure there is really a way to take a corner liquor store “high-class” but couldn’t we at least soften the harsh industrial ghetto vibe from roll-up garage door? Pretty please?

Filed Under: Blog, NOPA (North Panhandle), Victorian

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