This is one of the IHC models:
It’s pretty much the original colors out of the box. I picked up 2 of these at a train show about 6 years ago.
You could always make you one like a buddy of mine did.
I believe the previous house looks for GEORGIAN than Victorian. Balanced, symmetrical. Triangular frame over the dormer much like a reduced size element from the top front of a Roman or Greek temple. Old but not what I think of as Victorian.
Victorian often picturesque and deliberately assymetrical.
Victorian wih perhaps a touch of Queen Anne… Galveston, Texas.
Wonder if I can bash one of these from an IHC kit?
Victorian is not a style, it is a period, which covered about 11 different styles. Some are asymetrical, some are not.
The house you labeled “Georgian”, is actually a “Colonial Revival”. A style that started at the end of the Victorian period and carried over for the next 40-50 years, from about 1890 to to WWII. Colonial, and Colonial Revival are “related” to Georgian, but came after we told “George” he no longer ruled us.
The two houses in the middle of your photo are Queen Anne style.
My house, pictured in my earlier post, is a Colonial Revival influenced Queen Anne, sometimes refered to as a “mature” Queen Anne since they appeared at the end of Victorian period, during which the Queen Anne was the longest running and most popular style. The Greek order columns, Paladian windows in the front gable, the color scheme, The “temple” gable over the entrance steps, and a less ornate white painted interior trim are all style marks of the Colonial Revival influence in my house.
Queen Anne houses “evolved” into the next two most popular styles of the early 20th century, American Foursquare and Colonial Revival. Behind that was the “Craftsman” movement which brought about Bungalows and also influenced the features of American Foursquares.
Sheldon
I don’t know of any models, but I grew up in River Forest Il and there are a number of Victorian Era mansions right along the Chicago & North Western Tracks. Mostly with Widow’s walks and only a few Queen Anne specifically.
Oak Park and River Forest are filled with Victorian era homes and of course Prairie style Frank Lloyd Wright homes.
I know in the past there have been San Francisco Style row house/Painted ladies available in HO, but that’s very much not Queen Anne.
Hello this house is half a block from the tracks it is on Broadway ave in Bedford Oh almost downtown.
This building back yard and the house almost touch in the back corner the track is the old w&le.
have a nice day Frank
Wow! There are some really nice houses. I guess I didn’t realize that most people will have so much knowledge of architecture here. So what I’m looking for are yes, Queen Anne houses, but pretty much anything from that time period (mid 1800’s until early 1900’s). I do have two of the old AHM models, actually, and I do like them alot. I’m just looking for more and more variety
Wasn’t there a Victorian Haunted Mansion kit introduced circa mid-seventies?
0-6-0 , beautiful homes!! I love the Queen Anne, that would be my dream home.
Atlantic Central, Very nice post with alot of good info. Its great to here from others who have alot of interest/knowledge in architechure. Another little known fact was how the victorians, especially the Queen Annes where painted. As colorful on the inside as most of these houses where, there exterior was just a colorful. This is where the term " painted ladies" comes from. These many colors were used to excentuate the many details, mouldings, etc. There are a few Queen Annes in my hometown that are “painted ladies”, turrets, fish scale siding, alaborate porch trim, anything to make a victorian look more exstavagent, that was the style.
Hello I had some time and got two more these are in Twinsburg Ohio right in town about half mile from the tracks. Santa Fe I think you will like the blue one.
Have a nice day Frank
It was IHC , but the company is now defunct (owner moved to a warmer climate). You may still be able to tind some stock, although I did a quick search of my favorite suppliers and didn’t see any.