In American architecture, the painted ladies are re-painted Victorian and Edwardian houses and buildings, beginning in the 1960s, in three or more colors that embellish or enhance their architectural details. The term was first used for Victorian-style houses in San Francisco by writers Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen in their 1978 book Painted Ladies: San Fransisco's Applplendent Victorians . Despite the general polychrome décor of the Victorian era, the colors used in these homes are not based on historical precedents:
... California literary agents Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen publish Painted Ladies, a photo essay on San Francisco's modern painting practice. Stunningly colorful and published in a cheap novel, often this is a very ridiculous note about the Bay Area phenomenon which was then embraced by a large number of well-intentioned Americans, who too often thought they were following historical precedents. Painting Women and the sequel says more about the flavors of the 1970s and 1980s than they did about the 1870s and 1880s.
Since then the term has also been used to describe a group of re-painted Victorian houses in other American cities, such as Charles Village neighborhood in Baltimore, Lafayette Square in St. Louis. Louis, the wider San Francisco and New Orleans regions, Columbia-Tusculum in Cincinnati, Old West End in Toledo, Ohio, the McKnight neighborhood and Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts and the city of Cape May, New Jersey.
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Approximately 48,000 Victorian and Edwardian houses were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with changes from Victoria to Edwardian that occurred on Queen Victoria's death in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors. As a newspaper critic put it in 1885, "... red, yellow, brown, orange, all the harsh things are in fashion... if the top stories are not red or blue... they are painted into panels the un-civilized yellow and brown... "While many of Nob Hill's big houses were destroyed by the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, thousands of mass-produced homes, simpler homes survived in the western and southern environments of the city.
In 1963, San Francisco artist Butch Kardum began to incorporate intense blue and green colors on the outside of an Italian-style Victorian home. His home was criticized by several people, but other neighbors began to imitate bright colors in their own homes. Kardum became a color designer, and he and other artists/dyes like Tony Canaletich, Bob Buckter, and Jazon Wonders began transforming dozens of gray houses into Painted Ladies. In the 1970s, colorist movements, as they were called, had changed the whole way and the environment. This process continues to this day.
One of the famous "Painted Ladies" groups is a row of Victorian-style houses on 710-720 Steiner Street, opposite the Alamo Square park, in San Francisco. Sometimes known as "Postcard Row." The houses were built between 1892 and 1896 by developer Matthew Kavanaugh, who lived next door at home in 1892 at 722 Steiner Street. This block appears very often in mass media and mass-market photographs of the city and its attractions and has appeared in about 70 movies, TV programs and advertisements, including in the opening credits of the Full House television series and the sequel "Fuller House"
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See also
- The terraced house
References
Further reading
- Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, Painted Ladies- San Fransisco Victoria Fat E.P. Dutton, New York, 1978
- Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, Girl of Color Women , E.P. Dutton, New York, 1987
- Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, The Painted Ladies Guide to Victorian California E.P. Dutton, New York
- Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, Painted American Woman , E.P. Dutton, New York, 1992
- Roger W. Moss, Century of Color: Exterior Decorations for American Buildings, 1820-1920 , Watkins Glen, 1981, ISBNÃ, 9780892570515
- E.K. Rossiter, F.A. Wright, Original Color Schemes for Victorian Houses , reprint Comstock's Modern House Painting, 1883 , Dover ISBNÃ, 0486417743
- Terry Way, "Victorian Houses of San Francisco", Schiffer, PA 2009 ISBNÃ, 9780764332128
- Gail Caskey Winkler, Roger W. Moss, Victorian Exterior Décor: How to Paint Your Nineteenth Century American House , Henry Hold, 1987,
ISBN 9780805003765
- John Clarke Mills, "The San Francisco Victorian Recovery of 1890", Blog, 2008
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