Architectural Styles
Victorian Italianate
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1840-1900
- Flat or low-pitched roofs
- decorative cornices and brackets
- tall and narrow windows
- arched or curved tops
- wide eaves
- decorative moldings
- scrollwork
- brackets
- classical columns or porticos
- Australia
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Public buildings
- commercial
- residences
- villas
- Bishopscourt, Clarendon Street
- Government House, Brisbane
- Rippon Lea, Elsternwick
- Kamesburgh Brighton
- John Bagot residence Adelaide
- Government House, Melbourne
- The Priory, Burwood
- Eynesbury House, Kingswood
- Duncraggan Hall, Auburn
- Glentworth, Ashfield
- Mount Royal “Villa, Strathfield
- Windsor Gardens, Chatswood
- Tayar, Randwick
- Earlswood, Randwick
- Myrnong Hall St Kilda
- Walshome, Centennial Park
- Epworth, Richmond
- Albury railway station
- Institute Building, Darlington
- Leichhardt Town Hall,
- Balmain Court House,
- Maitland Post Office,
- Goulburn Post Office,
- Kings Hotel, Sydney
- Hotel CBD Sydney
- Redfern Post Office, Sydney;
- Forbes Post Office
- Royal Hotel, Queenscliff
- Grand Hotel, Yarra Glen
- Grand city hotels
- Provincial & regional hotels
- Commercial traveller hotels
- Seaside & resort hotels
- Coffee palaces & temperance hotels
- Residential hotels (upper-middle-class long stay)
- Railway hotels
- Hybrid Italianate–Filigree hotels
- Hotel Windsor Melbourne – Italianate massing with strong cornices and vertical emphasis
- Hotel Victoria Melbourne – robust masonry & classical ordering
- Menzies Hotel Melbourne (demolished)
- Provincial Hotel Ballarat, Victoria
- Australian Hotel Townsville
- Royal Hotel Bathurst NSW
- Criterion Hotel Sydney (original phase)
- Palace Hotel St Kilda
- Reid’s Coffee Palace Ballarat Vict
- Grand Hotel Melbourne
- Federal Coffee Palace Melbourne(demolished
- Royal Hotel Bathurst
- Regatta Hotel Toowong Brisbane
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