Details of the Italianate Style

This is a typical Italianate veranda. Note the massive turned columns and the downward pointing turned trim work finials called "pendants". The John Wonderly house (ABOVE) on Guilford Street was built about 1870.

Another example is the veranda of the John Altman house (ABOVE), built around 1880. Note the delicate proportions of the columns and the pendants. Here the long windows actually reach to the floor.

Some nice paired brackets and a "foliate" carved stone lintel on the George Humbert house (ABOVE) from 1870.

Brackets of alternating forms under the eaves of the McGrew house (ABOVE) of 1865. Note the dramatic projection of the window hood. Both the brackets and the window hood are made of pressed sheet metal.

Another view of the long, graceful windows of the McGrew house with metal hoods.

SUMMARY

Beginning in the 1850's and lasting over 40 years, the Italianate style with its tall, narrow windows, ornate lintels and numerous brackets was probably the most popular architectural style in Huntington County in the 19th century.

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