The first Italianate houses in the United states were built in the early 1840's and were popularized by the pattern books of Andrew Jackson Downing.The Italianate style dominated American houses constructed between 1850 and 1890. By the late 1860's the style had completely overshadowed its earlier companion, Gothic Revival. 1840 - 1860
a revival of elements of Italian Renaissance architecture popular during the mid- and late 19th-century. Characterized by the presence of deep, overhanging eaves and cornices supported by ornate brackets
Having an Italian style or appearance
referring to one of the picturesque vocabularies drawn upon by builders in the middle quarters of the 19th century. Inspired particularly by Tuscan villas, "Italian" details included heavy cornices, elaborate brackets, towers or belvederes, round arched windows, and heavily plastic mouldings.
A housing style form the late 1800’s that incorporated wide, elaborate bracketed cornice and eaves over a nearly square structure. Many feature a hipped roof with a tower or cupola, and arched windows with hood molds.
An architectural style derived from the Italian villa architecture that became common in England in the Nineteenth Century and subsequently in Australia in the 1870s and 1880s. Commonly uses picturesque forms, the tower canted bay windows, bracketed eaves with friezes, arcading and lower pitch hip-roofs.
In 1837, the United States was introduced to the Italianate style based on the Italian villa. Some common features of an Italianate style house are bay windows, balconies, verandas, and corner quoins. Square off-center towers are frequently seen but are often replaced by a cupola. Windows are often rounded and roofs are low pitched.
