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Collection: Directories and Documents > Pamphlets

A Tour of Nevada City Victorians (PH 8-17a)(1982) (53 pages)

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Italzanate 1860 1885 The majority of Nevada City homes of the Italianate style are built according to an adapted version (the vernacular) of the original "mansion" style which is symmetrical (usually square) with formal columned portico, and belvedere at the center of the roof. The usual building material was stone or masonry. However, wood was used when it was readily available (as in Nevada Gity). When wood was substituted, corners of the building were often given special treatment with quoins to simulate stone and to add a feeling of weight to the corner joints. The vernacular Italianate (or adapted style) is asymmetrical but balanced, with tall, heavily corniced bay windows in first and second storys, ornate window frames, rounded arches on doors and windows, columned portico with decorative brackets, fanlights over doors, a belvedere on the roof, and a low roof with wide overhang and modillion moldings or bracketing at the eves. POST BRACKET HODILLION FANLIGHT.