Architectural Styles
Italianate
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1802-1885
- Inspired by Italian villas & palaces from Renaissance & Baroque periods
- low-pitched or flat roofs,
- wide overhanging eaves
- supported by decorative brackets
- tall narrow windows
- Prominent cornices
- decorative moldings
- balconies
- porches
- verandas
- rusticated stone or brick
- USA
- Europe
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Residential homes
- libraries
- schools
- Govt buildings
- retail
- commecial buildings
- Osborne House Isle of Wight
- Cronkill
- Cliveden
- Blandwood mansion North Carolina
- John Muir Mansion California
- Govt House Melbourne
- Somerleyton Hall East Anglia
- Robert patrick Fitzgerald House Milwaukee
- Teatro Colon Buenos Aires
- Goulburn Post Office
- Kamesburgh Brighton Victoria
- San Francisco City Hall
- Cincinnati Music Hall
- Leland Stanford Mansion California
- Italianate villa hotels / guesthouses;
- Italianate terrace-house boutique hotels
- Grand Italianate “palazzo” hotels (purpose-built or converted)
- Historic commercial blocks reused as hotels
- Italianate civic building conversions
- Serviced apartments in Italianate buildings
- The Fifth Avenue Hotel (New York City, 1859)
- Brighton & Hove Italianate seafront terraces
Adaptive Reuse
- The Leland Hotel / Leland Stanford Mansion context (New York, 1850s)
- Italianate townhouse/terrace hotels in London (Kensington / Bayswater / Pimlico)
- Italianate terrace and villa hotels in Melbourne & Sydney
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation