Architectural Styles
Dragestil
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1880-1910
- Exposed timber walls
- tarred exteriors with varnished interiors
- dragon heads & knotwork decoration
- steep roofs
- big eaves
- carvings and motifs inspired by Norse mythology and Viking art
- curvilinear forms in gables and window frames
- dynamic and whimsical appearance
- local materials and craftsmanship
- Norway
- Russia
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Churches
- homes
- schools
- community centres
- Norway
- Holmenkollen Chapel
- Frognerseteren restaurant Oslo
- Vestby Church
- Villa Balderslund in Balestrand
- Boden Central Station
- Buksnes Church in Vestvågøy Municipality, Norway
- Southern baths (Łazienki Południowe) in Sopot
- The House with dragons” in Tomsk, Siberia, Russia
- Imperial Sailor’s Station Kongsnæs
- Bolteløkka Skole
- Buksnes Church Gravdal
- Hotel Central Stryn, Norway
- Tourist hotels (fjellhotell / fjord hotels)
- Resort hotels; Railway hotels
- Mountain lodges / highland hotels
- Guesthouses / pensions
- Sanatoriums and spa hotels
- Adaptive reuse of traditional buildings incl earlier timber houses & older inns rebuilt in Dragestil form
- Dalen Hotel — Dalen, Kviteseid Municipality, Telemark, Norway
- Kviknes Hotel Balestrand, Norway
- Hotel Union Øye — Øye, Sunnmøre, Norway 1891
- Mundal Hotel (Fjærland Hotel) — Fjærland, Norway
- Fleischer’s [Railway/resort] Hotel (early wings) — Voss, Norway
- Stalheim Hotel [Mountain / scenic viewpoint hotel] (early buildings) — Stalheim, Norway
- Balestrand Guesthouses & Pensions (multiple) — Norway
- Scandic Holmenkollen Park Hotel Oslo
Landmarks
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