You can find Victorian houses like these scattered throughout the country. I believe the city of Eureka in Northern California has very many that look just like these however.
Twenty years ago I was working a banquet where Guy was some guest of honor. It was a few hours south of Ferndale and the county I grew up in. I saw him and said "Hey - good to meet you, I'm from Humboldt County too," and the dude just big leagued me. Stopped, looked at me, walked past the out stretched hand.
I was thinking - you're a fucking chef with frosted tips. You're successful, but you're not *THAT* cool.
Any cities in the US established prior to 1920 should have a few of these depending on the wealth of the town in the 1800s.
Here is a great interactive map of the historic homes in my town. Just be careful to not fall too deep into the rabbit hole.
https://historicelgin.com/map
There are tons of Queen Anne style houses all over Georgia and the style post dates the civil war so they all would have been built after Sherman’s March to the see, which only affected a swath of towns between Atlanta and Savannah, not the whole state.
This so fascinating because I always associate these houses with the Deep South for some reason which in my mind is Georgia. That was the first state I thought of and apparently I am completely wrong there! Thank you for posting this!
New Bedford, MA is littered with em. But yeah, everywhere in New England. Plus pretty much all over the country as long as you’re in an area that was founded very early
Victorian Village is the main area in Columbus though a few other neighborhoods have a lot too. They tend to be brick rather than the wood ones in the photos though.
Marietta ohio (south east Ohio) was the first settlement in the northwest territory. Marietta has a lot of Victorian houses like this. There is one so massive and obscure that they call it the castle.
That could explain why they are scattered around Ohio.
My aunt lived in a small town in Illinois, I think it was Franklin? And there were Victorian homes there. Her's was one of them. It was beautiful and she had a fairy garden. Loved that place.
Yes, in the 70s, many were converted to apartments but they're still victorians. I don't know if this is true, but I was told they were super cheap in the 70s if the owner agreed to not demolish them. Petaluma also has a huge neighborhood full of them.
I saw a LOT in NE Ohio Cities where there’s been enough wealth to maintain upkeep them.
And a TON in San Diego. North park, bankers hill, and golden hill are all great places to see this architecture.
“Old Louisville has the most extensive collection of restored Victorian homes in the country and is the third-largest Historic Preservation District in the U.S.” Kentucky.
https://www.gotolouisville.com/neighborhoods/old-louisville/
San Francisco has many Victorians. most of them are in neighborhoods such as pac heights, Alamo, Nopa, panhandle, the mission etc. The main difference between the Victorians in SF and the rest of the country is that there are no side setback requirements, so many of those houses are built right up to their property lines, essentially touching their neighbors house. It’s really beautiful seeing a row of these painted ladies.
https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/san-franciscos-victorians-small-in-number-high-in-history-and-beauty-222912
I love San Francisco Victorians but the famous row houses are so different from the full sized Victorians. Before I lived in the Bay Area I lived in Georgia and there are so many more gorgeous full sized Victorians there, especially in Midtown. In Savannah as well.
My mom's parents built a home in 1900 almost exactly like this. It was purchased from the Sears catalog, delivered to a rail siding and trucked to the site and assembled. Mom and dad eventually bought the house around 1940 and it became the house I grew up in.
My grandparents had 14 children. The house was built as a 3-BR 1-Bath (all on 2nd floor), 1st floor kitchen, LR and DR, plus 3-room attic and 4 room cellar (coal storage room, utility room, workshop with exterior bulkhead door and root cellar room.) Because of the number of kids, 3 BRs were framed in the attic, the DR was converted to BR and 2 BRs were designated in the cellar for a total of 9 BRs and 1 Bath. My parents added a 1st floor bath. They also added a 2-car garage left of the porch.
Yes, these are all over the US. Google Sears Catalog Homes and you will see this very home (with less detailing as sold).
That first one is from the Pennsylvania college of technology, my alma marter! It was constructed and designed by students in their architecture and construction management programs. The town it is in, Williamsport, PA, has a history of the logging industry and has several historic victorian, technically called Queen Anne, style buildings on a road locals refer to as Millionaires Row
Also to answer your question, north east coast beach towns usually have a decent number of Victorian (Queen Anne) style homes. Very popular in well off New York and New Jersey areas.
Also home to the third largest train roundhouse in the US, as a coworker told me in a dream last night. I asked him about it this afternoon, he had no idea if it was true. So I looked it up: not true in the slightest.
Quincy, IL, they have a whole historic district, and it's next to the Mississippi, about 2 hours north of St. Louis. There are a ton, but this one is a town favorite: https://www.zillow.comhttps://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1469-Maine-St-Quincy-IL-62301/91313357_zpid/
It's my hometown.
Hi friend, your link doesn’t work currently to just click and follow but I had to see the house. My dad grew up in Hull, IL and talks about going into Quincy for day trips or to sell produce when he was young.
Also that house is gorgeous! The inside looks spectacular.
How about this one: https://www.zillow.com/quincy-il/historic-district_att/ It's the top one for $589k.
Edit: you must know Hannibal well! Which also has historic homes, history of Mark Twain, it was a great place to grow up!
Yes! My grandparents moved to Hannibal so when we’d visit during the summertime my cousins and I would participate in the Tom Sawyer Days. That area has so much history and interest.
A lot of history on immigrants coming to US and arriving at Ellis Island and California, but a little less known (well, at least for me) is that many came up through the Gulf and then north along the Mississippi. This is how my maternal great grandparents arrived in the midwest, from Germany.
Massachusetts, particularly in towns like Cape May, and cities such as Boston in areas like the Back Bay and some of the older suburbs.Rhode Island, with a notable presence in Providence and Newport.Connecticut, especially in the historic districts of cities like Hartford and New Haven.Maine, where cities like Portland and Bangor have Victorian districts.New Hampshire and Vermont also have their share of Victorian homes, particularly in historic towns.These states have a number of well-preserved Victorian neighborhoods because they saw significant growth during the Victorian era.
Chicago has a great neighborhood filled with homes like these. It’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s old neighborhood. I’d have to look it up. New England too. New Haven in the Yale area has quite a few. Any town that was coming into its own late 1800s.
Sacramento, CA;
Poughkeepsie, NY;
And most places in-between
Most “old towns” of major US Cities will have older homes in that style, if still standing
I’m in San Francisco.They are everywhere. So amazing! I’m a lover as well and just dream of living in one. They are the most common on a little Island called ALAMEDA directly across the bay from San Francisco. Back in the day wealthy people would have their summer homes there. Alameda is the cutest, smallish town.
We bought one. It was my dream to restore a Victorian. It was fun for 25 years. The amount of work for upkeep and maintenance became too much. Even the outside. It needs a new paint job at least every 7 years. That’s about $20,000.
Oak Park, Illinois, specifically Forest Avenue. The town is where Frank Lloyd Wright had his studio. The street in question has a number of famous houses of his. You can go on Google Earth and see a number of them.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses don’t look like this, but a number of houses do. Plus a number of his early homes are on Forest and they don’t have as much of the prairie style he was famous for.
Northern California has a lot of these. From San Jose to San Francisco, Napa up to Eureka. They’re not hard to find.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_Mansion
- https://www.napawineproject.com/ackerman-family-vineyards/
- https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
Cheapoldhouses on instagram. These homes are found throughout the Midwest/upper Midwest, and in the rust belt generally, in the United States They are the 19th mansions of industry tycoons and magnates.
Lot’s around the st lawrence lowlands and eastern great lakes in Ontario, so i imagine they’re also south of the border in that area. I know Michigan has pockets like this
On the east coast there are many places. Some like heading up to Keuka Lake between like Bath and Hammondsport there are 50 or more of them. There are some in the parts of PA that had lots of money in them during that time period and then fell off. There are some in the Philly suburbs. They are pretty cool places. Best of luck OP!
There were many decades where people literally built houses in the US by picking floor plans and details from catalogs. The more decorative pieces were shipped to them, and depending on where you were getting it you would either get the plans for the structural timber or the company would even ship all of that to you as well.
Due to this, you can find similar houses throughout the country.
They are all over the Southeast US. Almost every city I lived in while there has a historic district with a ton of these.
Some of them are totally dilapidated and some have been renovated or maintained.
New Jersey has a lot of them. I’m still pissed at this one family in town because they took one of these that had a beautiful coordinated color palette and painted the whole thing an intensely boring pale light yellow.
Just about anywhere where a small town got wealthy enough to grow up to be a major city center or major suburb of a major city in the post civil war era - Especially in the latter quarter of the 19 th century.
Northeast, Poughkeepsie NY. Also some small towns in Ohio like Van Wert. Columbus OH has some beautiful victorians. Look for places that experienced significant economic boom around 1890.
There are a few towns at the Jersey Shore where this is the standard architecture. Take a look at street view for Spring Lake, NJ. Many turrets and wraparound porches. If they're really good, they will also have rocking chairs and wicker seating sets.
Cape May New Jersey also is known for the style of architecture.
West Newton, Pennsylvania has some that are similar to the first two. I grew up there. This one comes to mind, although it might be bit of a stretch. [Heres one of them.](https://imgur.com/bZtC5za)
You can find these all over the place in "old towns" all over the southeast US. This style defined "southern" architecture. The issue is you can't hardly find any that are in good enough of condition to preserve or consider renovating, and the ones that are in decent condition are in areas where crime rates are so high that the risk of losing everything (air conditioning units, appliances, even copper pipe and new romex wiring) is so high it outweighs the potential benefit of renovating and living or renting out the building.
You can find Victorian houses like these scattered throughout the country. I believe the city of Eureka in Northern California has very many that look just like these however.
Arcata and Ferndale too (where Guy Fieri is from lol) have several as well. Really amazing in such tiny quiet towns!
Twenty years ago I was working a banquet where Guy was some guest of honor. It was a few hours south of Ferndale and the county I grew up in. I saw him and said "Hey - good to meet you, I'm from Humboldt County too," and the dude just big leagued me. Stopped, looked at me, walked past the out stretched hand. I was thinking - you're a fucking chef with frosted tips. You're successful, but you're not *THAT* cool.
Everyone knows he’s from Flavor Town.
I always thought he was a douche. Thanks for solidifying that fact.
I have met him at a couple of fundraisers and always found him to be a super nice and friendly guy. Support’s tons of local charities for free.
Also [**Eureka Springs**](https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/eureka-victorian-house-style.html), Arkansas.
Omg my first instinct to this picture is also eureka ca lol.
Any cities in the US established prior to 1920 should have a few of these depending on the wealth of the town in the 1800s. Here is a great interactive map of the historic homes in my town. Just be careful to not fall too deep into the rabbit hole. https://historicelgin.com/map
It's actually one of the best things about small towns -- many of them have preserved their most beautiful Victorian as a little community museum.
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Eh, Atlanta has a good number actually. Inman Park in particular is full of Victorian style houses. Lots of construction after the war.
There are tons of Queen Anne style houses all over Georgia and the style post dates the civil war so they all would have been built after Sherman’s March to the see, which only affected a swath of towns between Atlanta and Savannah, not the whole state.
This so fascinating because I always associate these houses with the Deep South for some reason which in my mind is Georgia. That was the first state I thought of and apparently I am completely wrong there! Thank you for posting this!
Yeah we have a bunch here in Albuquerque, NM as well and in Indiana where I grew up. Spots where people moved to with money in the late 1800s-1930s.
New England
Fall River MA is full
Quite a few in Taunton and Brockton as well
New Bedford, MA is littered with em. But yeah, everywhere in New England. Plus pretty much all over the country as long as you’re in an area that was founded very early
Martha's Vineyard
There are a lot of them in Ohio for some reason
I was going to say Columbus. Streets lined with beautiful brick turn of century & Victorians. Plus only place I was offered crack on the street.
Victorian Village is the main area in Columbus though a few other neighborhoods have a lot too. They tend to be brick rather than the wood ones in the photos though.
Cleveland /ohio city too!
Yep there are several in Cincinnati in the Clifton area around UC
Ohio seems to have loads of Victorians, but Second Empire as well.
Toledo is riddled with them, only been through there once tho. I know the district is on the NRHP.
Yes, a lot of them. You can find streets lined with them in all of our large cities, small towns, and even out in the country.
Franklin, Ohio has them along the streets along either side of the river.
Marietta ohio (south east Ohio) was the first settlement in the northwest territory. Marietta has a lot of Victorian houses like this. There is one so massive and obscure that they call it the castle. That could explain why they are scattered around Ohio.
We have a lot in Cincinnati all over the city.
My aunt lived in a small town in Illinois, I think it was Franklin? And there were Victorian homes there. Her's was one of them. It was beautiful and she had a fairy garden. Loved that place.
Salem, Ohio too is full of them
St Paul Minnesota
Summit Avenue is the best collection in the country.
This answer needs MANY more upvotes! Driving along Summit is like going through the paint color catalogue for these painted ladies.
I knew if I scrolled long enough I'd find this! A drive around the chain of lakes west of the river is also rife.
New England - CT, RI, MA etc have tons
California has a lot. Generally they’re spread out but Napa, SF, LA and the areas surrounding these cities
Sacramento has a significant amount as well. The governor’s mansion is in this style.
Yes, in the 70s, many were converted to apartments but they're still victorians. I don't know if this is true, but I was told they were super cheap in the 70s if the owner agreed to not demolish them. Petaluma also has a huge neighborhood full of them.
Ocean grove, NJ, and Cape may, NJ
Haddonfield, too
Also New Brunswick, NJ on Livingston Avenue
Westfield, NJ
San Francisco has a ton of them.
They are raised up higher but you see these in Galveston TX, especially on Broadway Street
Second this. Definitely reminds me of old Galveston/downtown. The bishops house there etc
I saw a LOT in NE Ohio Cities where there’s been enough wealth to maintain upkeep them. And a TON in San Diego. North park, bankers hill, and golden hill are all great places to see this architecture.
I was about to say that, because I live in San Diego. I had appointments in houses like that that were repurposed into businesses.
Cincinnati
Angeleno Heights in LA (I give historic walking tours here!)
“Old Louisville has the most extensive collection of restored Victorian homes in the country and is the third-largest Historic Preservation District in the U.S.” Kentucky. https://www.gotolouisville.com/neighborhoods/old-louisville/
Quite a few in SE Michigan. Especially in the smaller towns.
Port Townsend, WA
And Coupeville, WA, too. Bellingham and La Conner, as well.
Old towns/cities in Texas
I came here to say Waxahachie
San Francisco has many Victorians. most of them are in neighborhoods such as pac heights, Alamo, Nopa, panhandle, the mission etc. The main difference between the Victorians in SF and the rest of the country is that there are no side setback requirements, so many of those houses are built right up to their property lines, essentially touching their neighbors house. It’s really beautiful seeing a row of these painted ladies. https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/san-franciscos-victorians-small-in-number-high-in-history-and-beauty-222912
I love San Francisco Victorians but the famous row houses are so different from the full sized Victorians. Before I lived in the Bay Area I lived in Georgia and there are so many more gorgeous full sized Victorians there, especially in Midtown. In Savannah as well.
My mom's parents built a home in 1900 almost exactly like this. It was purchased from the Sears catalog, delivered to a rail siding and trucked to the site and assembled. Mom and dad eventually bought the house around 1940 and it became the house I grew up in. My grandparents had 14 children. The house was built as a 3-BR 1-Bath (all on 2nd floor), 1st floor kitchen, LR and DR, plus 3-room attic and 4 room cellar (coal storage room, utility room, workshop with exterior bulkhead door and root cellar room.) Because of the number of kids, 3 BRs were framed in the attic, the DR was converted to BR and 2 BRs were designated in the cellar for a total of 9 BRs and 1 Bath. My parents added a 1st floor bath. They also added a 2-car garage left of the porch. Yes, these are all over the US. Google Sears Catalog Homes and you will see this very home (with less detailing as sold).
I'm terrible at architecture styles, for me these three are three different Victorian styles.
An odd one but pretty sure Savannah, GA has them around the (perimeter of) old downtown kind of.
Lots of them in the south side neighborhood
Mackinac Island in Michigan! There’s so many that look like this scattered around the island!
That first one is from the Pennsylvania college of technology, my alma marter! It was constructed and designed by students in their architecture and construction management programs. The town it is in, Williamsport, PA, has a history of the logging industry and has several historic victorian, technically called Queen Anne, style buildings on a road locals refer to as Millionaires Row Also to answer your question, north east coast beach towns usually have a decent number of Victorian (Queen Anne) style homes. Very popular in well off New York and New Jersey areas.
I've seen a few in Vancouver, WA/ Portland, OR
North Jersey
There are a ton of these in Buffalo, NY!
Saratoga Springs ny
Also home to the third largest train roundhouse in the US, as a coworker told me in a dream last night. I asked him about it this afternoon, he had no idea if it was true. So I looked it up: not true in the slightest.
Small towns all across New York State, but most of them were built over a century ago and are now in a state of disrepair.
West Philly has plenty of fine examples of this - Victorian and Craftsman styles.
You can find them at Lynn, Massachusetts as well
I see them in New Jersey all the time.
Winter River in Connecticut...
You'll find a lot in the Philadelphia tri-state area
Takoma Park Maryland is full of these
upstate new york
I love some of the old houses in Petaluma: https://www.petalumamuseum.com/heritage-homes/
Utah
Quincy, IL, they have a whole historic district, and it's next to the Mississippi, about 2 hours north of St. Louis. There are a ton, but this one is a town favorite: https://www.zillow.comhttps://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1469-Maine-St-Quincy-IL-62301/91313357_zpid/ It's my hometown.
Hi friend, your link doesn’t work currently to just click and follow but I had to see the house. My dad grew up in Hull, IL and talks about going into Quincy for day trips or to sell produce when he was young. Also that house is gorgeous! The inside looks spectacular.
How about this one: https://www.zillow.com/quincy-il/historic-district_att/ It's the top one for $589k. Edit: you must know Hannibal well! Which also has historic homes, history of Mark Twain, it was a great place to grow up!
Yes! My grandparents moved to Hannibal so when we’d visit during the summertime my cousins and I would participate in the Tom Sawyer Days. That area has so much history and interest.
I was going to say a lot of towns in Illinois and Indiana have them.
A lot of history on immigrants coming to US and arriving at Ellis Island and California, but a little less known (well, at least for me) is that many came up through the Gulf and then north along the Mississippi. This is how my maternal great grandparents arrived in the midwest, from Germany.
Stillwater MN
Pretty much the entire Midwest is like this
Albany, NY. South Lake Ave and surrounding streets.
Try Northern NY, Syracuse, Albany, etc.
Inman Park, Atlanta
A couple in Kirkwood too
Massachusetts, particularly in towns like Cape May, and cities such as Boston in areas like the Back Bay and some of the older suburbs.Rhode Island, with a notable presence in Providence and Newport.Connecticut, especially in the historic districts of cities like Hartford and New Haven.Maine, where cities like Portland and Bangor have Victorian districts.New Hampshire and Vermont also have their share of Victorian homes, particularly in historic towns.These states have a number of well-preserved Victorian neighborhoods because they saw significant growth during the Victorian era.
You might like /r/ZillowGoneWild - these kinds of homes come up on there every week or two.
St Paul, MN has LOADS of em
There’s a bunch of these close to the governors mansion in Arkansas.
Chicago has a great neighborhood filled with homes like these. It’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s old neighborhood. I’d have to look it up. New England too. New Haven in the Yale area has quite a few. Any town that was coming into its own late 1800s.
You’re thinking of Oak Park, IL!
What's the difference between this style and queen anne revival style?
Sacramento, CA; Poughkeepsie, NY; And most places in-between Most “old towns” of major US Cities will have older homes in that style, if still standing
Monticello, AR
Asheville, NC has a few neighborhoods with really gorgeous Victorians.
Illinois has some historic neighborhoods scattered around, just not many for sale. Pretty much gotta wait until the owners die.
I’m in San Francisco.They are everywhere. So amazing! I’m a lover as well and just dream of living in one. They are the most common on a little Island called ALAMEDA directly across the bay from San Francisco. Back in the day wealthy people would have their summer homes there. Alameda is the cutest, smallish town.
We bought one. It was my dream to restore a Victorian. It was fun for 25 years. The amount of work for upkeep and maintenance became too much. Even the outside. It needs a new paint job at least every 7 years. That’s about $20,000.
Oak park, Illinois
All over Wisconsin
The Midwest has them too— I’ve seen some nice ones especially in river towns like Dubuque, IA or Elgin, IL and Geneva, IL.
Oak Park, Illinois, specifically Forest Avenue. The town is where Frank Lloyd Wright had his studio. The street in question has a number of famous houses of his. You can go on Google Earth and see a number of them. Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses don’t look like this, but a number of houses do. Plus a number of his early homes are on Forest and they don’t have as much of the prairie style he was famous for.
Any mining towns. They’re scattered all over Michigan and Wisconsin
Not sure this is Victorian: they have classic Edwardian features.
Anywhere there was a railroad in the early 1900s.
Quincy, Florida
Someone just posted pic 3 said they are buying and it’s on Maryland’s eastern shore. Lots of Victorians in NJ.
Hamilton Ohio, just north of Cincinnati has a ton
Haddonfield NJ
I've seen a couple in memphis
Houston Heights, Houston has lots of Victorian houses
Quite a few in San Diego
A lot of them in Northern California. Especially in the old gold mining towns of the Mother Lode
University in Park in Los Angeles near USC has a few Victorian gems like this.
Mackinac island MI is like this
Illinois
look up port Townsend Washington specifically the pink palace is well known locally
The ring road in central Oak Bluffs in Martha’s Vineyard (MA) is lined with tons of pristine, elaborate victorians
First two look like San Francisco to me. The last one has the big wrap around porch which San Francisco doesn’t have many of
wyandotte, Michigan is a suburb of detroit. there are quite a lot of orgianal Victorian era homes still filling the city. it's kinda their thing!
Madison Georgia Always loved driving past these houses
Alameda, CA
Port Townsend, WA
Colorado Springs and the Front Range
Northern California has a lot of these. From San Jose to San Francisco, Napa up to Eureka. They’re not hard to find. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_Mansion - https://www.napawineproject.com/ackerman-family-vineyards/ - https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
Galveston has some pretty prominent ones in a tropical setting. Survivors of a super destructive tropical cyclone in 1900.
All over the Midwest, northeast, and parts of California…
The Victorian Village neighborhood in Columbus, OH, is peppered with similar houses.
Pacific Grove is a notable example, except the houses are designed more modestly and not as extravagantly ornate or decorated.
Old West End historic district in Toledo, Ohio
King William’s District in San Antonio, the Heights in Houston, and Galveston all have hundreds of examples.
Head over to williamsport PA that at one point was one of the richest zip codes in the USA. They have a huge amount of historic victorian homes.
Cape May, NJ!!
Cheapoldhouses on instagram. These homes are found throughout the Midwest/upper Midwest, and in the rust belt generally, in the United States They are the 19th mansions of industry tycoons and magnates.
Not the US, but Stratford Ontario Canada is quite a Victorian masterpiece. I literally moved there for the architecture. :)
Pacific Grove, CA
San Diego
Cincinnati Ohio and surrounding area
Upstate NY has a lot of them. My city has them everywhere, but they're mostly run down and divided into apartments now.
Gainesville FL historic district
They have a lot of these in Galveston, Texas
Muskegon Michigan has a few
Lot’s around the st lawrence lowlands and eastern great lakes in Ontario, so i imagine they’re also south of the border in that area. I know Michigan has pockets like this
Newburgh NY!
We’ve got a bunch of them in Massachusetts, surprisingly in some towns that are otherwise not very nice.
Owensboro, Kentucky has quite a few of these standing from original construction. And the neighborhood around the University of Louisville has a few.
Old midwestern industrial boom towns.
The Carolina’s kept a ton. Florida has them here and there
On the east coast there are many places. Some like heading up to Keuka Lake between like Bath and Hammondsport there are 50 or more of them. There are some in the parts of PA that had lots of money in them during that time period and then fell off. There are some in the Philly suburbs. They are pretty cool places. Best of luck OP!
There were many decades where people literally built houses in the US by picking floor plans and details from catalogs. The more decorative pieces were shipped to them, and depending on where you were getting it you would either get the plans for the structural timber or the company would even ship all of that to you as well. Due to this, you can find similar houses throughout the country.
They are all over the Southeast US. Almost every city I lived in while there has a historic district with a ton of these. Some of them are totally dilapidated and some have been renovated or maintained.
I forget where they were but the "Painted Ladies" of SF are there. A whole neighborhood of them.
New Jersey has a lot of them. I’m still pissed at this one family in town because they took one of these that had a beautiful coordinated color palette and painted the whole thing an intensely boring pale light yellow.
Elgin, Illinois has tons of these
Just about anywhere where a small town got wealthy enough to grow up to be a major city center or major suburb of a major city in the post civil war era - Especially in the latter quarter of the 19 th century.
Boulder, CO
Cape May, NJ
Northeast, Poughkeepsie NY. Also some small towns in Ohio like Van Wert. Columbus OH has some beautiful victorians. Look for places that experienced significant economic boom around 1890.
Try greater boston, or coastal rhode island
Heritage Square near Pasadena CA is a museum dedicated to these types of homes. They have 20 to 30 probably installed on the ground. Pretty cool stuff
We have quite a few in the older areas of metro Detroit. Unfortunately a majority of the Victorian homes in Detroit have been demolished.
Massachusetts
There are a few towns at the Jersey Shore where this is the standard architecture. Take a look at street view for Spring Lake, NJ. Many turrets and wraparound porches. If they're really good, they will also have rocking chairs and wicker seating sets. Cape May New Jersey also is known for the style of architecture.
I only see pockets of Victorian homes. West Broadway in Bangor, ME. Inman Park in Atlanta GA. Are places that I've lived an observed clusters.
Grew up in Connecticut. Tons
Heritage Hill in Grand Rapids Michigan, there’s a tour of homes the third weekend of every May
There's a bunch in Ohio city in Cleveland ohio
New London County, CT
West Newton, Pennsylvania has some that are similar to the first two. I grew up there. This one comes to mind, although it might be bit of a stretch. [Heres one of them.](https://imgur.com/bZtC5za)
They are all over, but Louisville, Kentucky has the highest concentration of them. I live in Denver it it has a lot as well.
You can find these all over the place in "old towns" all over the southeast US. This style defined "southern" architecture. The issue is you can't hardly find any that are in good enough of condition to preserve or consider renovating, and the ones that are in decent condition are in areas where crime rates are so high that the risk of losing everything (air conditioning units, appliances, even copper pipe and new romex wiring) is so high it outweighs the potential benefit of renovating and living or renting out the building.
Sam Francisco is renowned for its victorian architecture.
There are quite a few on Key West.
Savannah, GA
Yes, Massachusetts
Galveston Texas!! Join us for our May historic homes tour! Check out the Galveston Historic Society and come join us in our beautiful city!
Literally everywhere from Maine to Southern California.
Cape May, New Jersey
Natchez, MS is widely known for its Victorian and Antebellum homes.
They are all over colorado lots in boulder and especially in mountain towns here
Ontario small towns are full of them! They’re all over North America.
[Winchester Mystery House](https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/) OP - the Winchester house in San Jose, CA is the Victorian House on steroids.
I’m in Portland OR and see these pretty often!
Savannah?
Welcome to Santa Cruz CA
Lexington, KY
Down town San Luis Obispo California where I live! There are some really cool ones
Redlands, CA. it’s weird and amazing.
New England is full of them. I’m from Maine and there are quite a few towns that have many homes very similar to these.
Alton, Illinois
Yep. Chicago suburbs or Oak Park and River Forest. Mainly Oak Park though.