Plattsmouth, Nebraska

This is the Cass County Courthouse, built in 1892 in the Romanesque architectural style. It cost $80,000 to build.

Red Bluff, California

Surge of the Onion-dome towers! These are so neat, especially the middle one! Have absolutely NO idea what "style" they would be or when these kind of domes were popular. The structure of the first looks like it's heading into the early 1900s. The second looks older. The third just isn't rambling or eccentric enough to try to call it a Queen Anne, although I'm sure most people might try.

Eureka, California

These adorable ones are like miniature square-bay Italianates, but with heavy Eastlake Stick style.

 

Petaluma, California

This interesting one may be somewhat of a Greek Revival? The witch's cap tower throws me - what year were those being built? Again, it's just not Queen-Anneish enough to be one of those.

San Francisco, California

This is a row of 6 similar buildings from 1899, just off Haight Street. They're so unlike any other structure I've seen in the city. Look at the one on the far right of the first picture - sadly covered in modern siding. The second picture shows the building on the right of that one. Photos taken in 1993.

 

 

2005 Update from contributor Michael from Santa Cruz:

"You know that row of 6 unusual houses with one large, round tower on the front? You put them in the "Other" section of your site. Well, I took a photo of them, and they look differently now. They have all been repainted, and the one with modern that you felt pity for is now umm... I'm not sure what they're doing to it but they're changing something!"

                  
                                                                 

These ones are definitely Edwardian.

Catalina Island, California

One of the structures from the olden days that still stands in Avalon, this is the historic Hermosa Hotel. Check out their website for a photo of it from 1896!

New Orleans, Louisiana

This is called the "Cornstalk Hotel" because of the fence that is decorated with cute stalks of corn! At first I thought the style might be Edwardian, but after reading their website, I find that it was instead built in the early 1800s. The style just looks newer than that to me, though! Perhaps it was updated? From their website: "The early 1800's home of Judge Francois Xavier-Martin, first Chief Justice of the Louisana Supreme Court and author of the first history of Louisiana, where Harriet Beecher Stowe stopped and was inspired to write Uncle Tom's Cabin from the sights at the nearby slave markets."

Astoria, Oregon

There are many houses with this simple house form in town, built by the Scandinavian workers that populated the area in the 1800s who worked in the canneries. I like this one because of the cute porch, original or not, that surrounds it. I don't care for the new windows that were put in, however. I don't know if this type of house has an official "style" ... although I was told that it could fall into the "folk Victorian" category.

Portland, Oregon

"The House of a Million Lights" - this house gives tours around Christmastime and must make everyone envious! I know I was, when we went through it, they just have it decorated so gorgeously. It was built in the early 1880s, for retired ship captain David Cole and wife Amanda Boone, great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone. You can read more about it here.

 

Warrenton, Oregon

This one my husband took - that's me sitting out front. I love this house SOOOO much!!! Warrenton is a sleepy little town of about 4000 people, just across a bridge from Astoria. Some older homes here and there, nothing too spectacular, until you come across THIS one!! It's the Warren mansion, built in 1885 for the founder of the town. It was for sale in 2000 or so, it wasn't even that expensive, I think just over $600,000 about, and for a house this size, in such great condition, with a HUGE yard, that's a great price. Pricey for us, but if we were famous (or even semi-famous) rockstars, you can bet this is the house we would have bought to hide out from the world. Forget those ugly billion dollar homes in Beverly Hills - yuck. Anyhow. They had an open house so of course we toured it. Everything inside is pristine. I especially loved the downstairs bathroom: dark wood encased bathtub, woodwork, etc. Looked very 1880s, although I think it had been redone to look that way. Oh man, those lucky people, whoever bought it.

Update on this house from Mrs. George Warren: " THE BATHTUB IN THE BATHROOM YOU DESCRIBED IN THE HOUSE IS THE ORIGINAL, ONLY ORIGINAL FIXTURE IN THE ROOM, I HAVE THE ORIGINAL SINK IN MY HOUSE. MY HUSBAND AND I GAVE THE BATH TUB , RESTORED AND COPPER SHINED UP, TO THE OWNERS OF THE HOUSE. IT WAS IN THE RAFTERS OF OUR GARAGE FOR AT LEAST 40 YEARS. THE WOOD AROUND THE TUB IS ALSO THE ORIGINAL BUT THE REST OF THE WOOD PRESENTLY ELSEWHERE IN THE ROOM IS NOT ORIGINAL, BUT COPIED FROM THE TUB. WE ALSO RETURNED ALOT OF THE LIGHT FIXTURES THA T WERE STORED IN OUR BASEMENT TOO."

Utica, New York

Well, if you've been taking the Utica tour only, this page is your last stop! Here's a couple that I'm thinking could be classified as "Greek Revivals". No further information.