Check out my great grandparent’s home, now a museum, on our estate in Northern California PATTERSON HOUSE AT ARDENWOOD HISTORIC FARM. Our family owned close to 20K acres of farmland in the Bay Area during the mid 1800s to early 1900s and on
Eureka and Ferndale, CA are great locations for Victorians, as is Napa. I was blown away by some of the gorgeous ones up there. If you like Victorians, you will want to make a trek to those three locations.
I grew up not far from the Beach house in Escondido. In the late 90’s, my husband and I had the privilege to tour the inside. The then elderly owners had put the home up for sale. They were very sweet and told us the history, along with the painstaking attention to restoration of the home.
Grew up in Humboldt and these houses were everywhere. My aunt lived in one that use to be a hospital. 8 bedrooms with 4 full bathrooms. Great places to play hide and seek as a child but was very eerie when you're alone in one of the secret passages in the walls.
@@miss.l.1563 There's a closet upstairs that the sidewall could open and you're able to walk in between the walls around the whole upstairs and it also has a staircase going downstairs behind the wall of the staircase in the house.
Beautiful buildings. #16 the Long Waterman house has a tower balcony, not a turret balcony. The structure extends all the way to the ground floor/first floor, making it a tower. Turrets can only start from the floors above.
So glad to hear some of these have reverted to private residence. The thought of all those shoes tramping over those beautiful wooden floors just kills me!!!
I work next door to Morey Mansion at Redlands Community Hospital. I’ve toured the house when it was a B&B. It is spectacular inside and out. It’s located near a canyon with million dollar views of the valley.
I love the Vedic Temple. I stayed at the Britt House when it was a bed and breakfast in the late 1980s. I'm just glad to see these have all been preserved. The Villa Montezuma in San Diego is also impressive, and has a tie-in with spiritualism, popular at the time. It has been a museum for many years.
I clicked on this just to see if Kimberly Crest in Redlands was on here. Nice to see the Morey Mansion made the cut! I used to love seeing it on my walks as a teenager.
Back in the seventies when I was in high school I'd walk to the Kimberly Crest & visit with Mary Kimberly Shirk. She loved to garden & I learned a lot from her. She was an amazing lady!!! 🙂
Thanks for the sensitive treatment of the Winchester Mystery House. The structure is clearly a marvel without the sensational and dubious tales of Sarah Winchester.👍
I wouldn't say dubious...as what kind of person would build stairs and doors to know where and ring a bell tower at midnight ..It's a beautiful place but very strange .
@@modestoca25 she wasn't nearly as strange as the later owners made her out to be. Don't forget the 1906 earthquake collapsed a couple floors in that house explaining why there's stairways going no where, by that time she was very elderly and just dealt with what was left and lived in it
@@califdad4 what about the doors to nowhere? The seance room? Those aren't near the tower. She also used the number 13 a lot...I didn't say she was strange btw, I said the house was....I believe she was haunted.
@@modestoca25 all her close help in the house that was with her constantly, never saw a seance, that was all a big Story from the later owners of the house doing tours, trying to create interest. She was a numerologist and very interested in Masonic history, but not trying to contact the dead. Also she moved to California after her husband and child's death because her family was out here, her cousin was a lieutenant Governor of the state . Most of the story's we have been told about her, were lies
There's another cool old victorian in Lodi, CA called Hill House Inn that is beautiful inside and out and also very haunted. McHenry Mansion in Modesto, CA is also quite nice and haunted (although they deny it).
Hill House is definitely haunted! I toured it, and in one of the upstairs bedrooms, there was definitely an eerie energy and I felt a pocket of cold air in one area of the room...
Love Victorian style. Just from the outside images, I'd have to say that #14 the Winchester mansion is my favorite. Would be awesome to see more details and images of the interiors of these grand houses.
A fantastic video. There was clearly a lot of effort and research put into making it. I do wish that you could have included Hale House in Heritage Square, Los Angeles. There are some spectacular homes on Carroll Avenue as well such as the Sessions House. Other than that it was a highly enjoyable watch.
I would like to suggest Port Townsend Washington. An entire town of victorian beauty. It still retains the "uptown" and "downtown", so the finer ladies didn't have to mingle with the rowdy sailors. Most are bed and breakfasts which are all open to the public for viewing for a short time in the spring. It even has an old military base full of victorian homes and barracks for the personnel. All in one town!
We are restoring a big 4-Square house completed in 1907. I love Queen Ann houses but due to all of the detailed wood work and roofing, they can cost a ghastly amount of money to renovate correctly. Great video!
What is so amazing about the Carson mansion in Eureka is not even the home design but the jaw-dropping woodwork inside. As he was a Logger Baron, it is all California Redwood highly polished with the beautiful grain and it just takes one's breath away! It is a shame that it isn't open to the public at least at some part of the year because the pictures of that woodwork is something all should see.
So proud to see the Humboldt Co. Victorians on the list! I've been lucky to and have been able to tour three out of the four (Bair-Stokes House in Arcata I haven't toured.) We have so many amazing Victorian homes here, and you could do a whole video on the Victorian Village of Ferndale itself!
a whole video on ferndale itself would be amazing. especially since there were 3 movies filmed there. Outbreak, Majestic and Salems Lot(parts of it atleast). one of these days i want to do a video history of the area i grew up in in the ferndale valley, Grizzly Bluff. There is a lot of little known history in that little valley that needs to be recorded.
I love Victorian homes especially Queen Anne Victorian. I was fortunate to grow up in a Victorian home and I currently live in a California Craftsman beach side in Long Beach. I like to visit the Victorian homes in Northern CA like the Carson and Pink Lady in Eureka, staying at the Gingerbread Mansion in Ferndale and seeing the Bair in Arcata. But I prefer the weather of So Cal. There are lots of Victorians in areas like Orange, OC, Riverside and some of my favs are down in Hillcrest area of San Diego as well. I hope to retire soon a purchase a little Victorian Cottage but So Cal in insanely expensive.
Well done. I have been to many of these homes and to pick a favorite is difficult indeed as each have unique qualities. Being from San Diego originally I was quite enamored with this video. I;ll be spending a week at The Vick next month and have this video to thank for introducing it to me. My cousin lived in an 1884 Victorian two blocks from San Jose State back in the late 60s. It had been closed up since 1924 and all the original furnishing where left behind. No electricity, on gas lamps where used. Jimi Hendricks was a frequent visitor. It was torn down to make a parking lot around 1971.
You selected some really great places! I'm glad the Old Vendanta Temple was included because it really blew me away when I first saw it while walking around the area! It used to be painted in shades of purple and lavender up until the last 7 years! I had nicknamed it "The Dream Genie House" before I knew what it was! Haha! If you do another video on the subject another wonderful place to see in SF is the William Westerfield House next to Alamo Square Park around the corner from the Painted Ladies. Additionally there's a very beautiful row of immaculate gingerbread victorian houses along the corner of Masonic and Waller streets.
As a native Californian, born and raised, I often wondered WHY there were so few Victorian mansions in Los Angeles. I later discovered that, though LA has as long a history as San Francisco, their early mansions were built with adobe and didn't survive. When I came up to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was FLABBERGASTED by the ABUNDANCE of Victorian-style homes throughout the Bay Area! Even in Oakland, they're EVERYWHERE for miles surrounding the downtown area, AND they're still occupied. Many of them NOT RENOVATED! Even old houses and buildings that aren't Victorian, but date back to the late 19th and early 20th century. It's like an old active time capsule. Carriage houses, here and there, in Oakland, still standing, still in use, many painted and patched-up. It's mind-blowing. Thanks for the video, WHAT A TREAT!
For several years I lived in Los Angeles, in the area north of the USC campus bounded by W. 30th Street, Orchard, Adams, and Hoover. Lots of original residences from about the 1880s up through the early 20th Century bungalows are still standing. Part of the area is a designated historic district. The house I lived in was completed in 1902. Thanks to the technology of Google street view, you can take a little virtual tour through the area from the comfort of your own home. For a while, the pictures posted from the street where I used to live had been taken while the jacarandas were in bloom, and it was beautiful. Alas, not the current pictures.
I'm so sad you didn't include the Haas-Lilienthal House in San Francisco as it's the city's only Victorian that is open regularly as a museum ( it even has period furniture and this massive train set they found in the attic that still works.) but I know there are so many wonderful Victorians in that city alone you could probably do a whole video.
Very inspiring for playing the Sims. I always create a Addams Family style family that lives in an old dark Victorian mansion. This gives me lots of inspiration
The downtown LA area of Bunker hill and fort Moore hills once had beautiful houses like these until the 1950's all leveled with the hill it's self for the freeway system and development. It be a crying shame to tear down these current survivors.
This is a great video and included a few houses I had not heard of. I am surprised, though, that the Carson Mansion in Eureka, across the street from the Pink Lady, was not included on this list.
So many other homes that should make the list. All the homes at Heritage Square Museum, The houses in downtown Oakland in the village behind the library... So many more.
Hi. I grew up in Southern California across the street from Knott's Berry Farm, so I love that this is all about California Victorian's. 3 were torn down near me. Made me sad to see them gone.
@@schmancy2978 it really is sad. The Victorian's across the street from me, were a white 2 story and the other was a white single story. They were torn down to make room for 2 small apartment complexes, and the 2 larger white ones just a block from my high school were torn down to make room for a church & it's grounds, while the other was torn down to make room for 3 large homes. I loved those old Victorian's so much I dreamed of one day owning and living in one of them.
At 6:50 along a couple of blocks on Berding Street, there are quite a few, larger homes that are very nice. There are quite a few more modest homes along that same street, which do not have the scale, nor the ornamentation of those much larger homes, but are nice with very nice landscaping...
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Funny enough, that beautiful pink house shown at the very begging, not included in the lineup, is in a small town in NY called Wellsville! The house and it’s grounds just finished a 5 year renovation/rehab. It’s so pretty in person
As a Brit when I move to California I will need one of these beautiful Victorian-style houses.And being Hindu I'll be visiting the Vedanta Old temple then lol Very educational video and all the houses are beautiful .
Wow… I don’t understand how you passed over Pasadena Queen Ann’s. I should explain… I’m sorry for my comment. My grandmother owned Hilmount (I believe that’s the correct spelling) in Pasadena, Ca. Hollywood loved her home… they filmed Richard Pryor life story , Polly Anna, and many more movies & T.V. Show’s. It’s a beautiful Queen Anne that was built in the 1880’s. It holds many beautiful memories for me. All of my Summer’s were spent with my grandma in Hilmount. Checkout Millionaires Row, Pasadena, Ca. the streets are lined with gorgeous home’s. Different type’s of architecture. Thank you for posting!
We looked up Hilmount. It’s a gorgeous home. We might make a 2nd California Victorian video in the future, as so many more have been brought to our attention. We are definitely adding Hilmount to the list. Thank you!
I have visited both the governors mansion and the Winchester house. I didn’t realize you couldn’t view the governor mansion anymore but I toured it back in 2013. Winchester is pretty neat. If I remember correctly I think the guide told us she was really short.
Growing up in Ventura California in the 60s 70s and 80s there were a few really nice Victorian homes. Some got restored. Not sure if they're there anymore
Thank you for the info and the visuals. I was going to buy a victorian home, at a very low price, on Soto Avenue., in East Los Angeles, which has a high crime, and various retaliating gang members, in that area. I didn't mind though, because the house was, although delapitated, very beautiful. It has the bones, and I visualizd the outcome of the renovation, but the owners changed their minds on selling. 😔
One thing that may not be understood about many earlier architectural styles -- think, Victorian and before -- was, until the 20th century, architecture was considered one of the three major art forms, with the other two being sculpture and painting. Music and writing weren't even included, because they were considered commonplace. This is one reason the rich and titled from the earlier centuries commissioned such grandiose designs as well as the reason so much effort was put into each home.
Thank you for sharing is wonderful works of art but there are two of them that you missed and they are in Tustin California one is the Sherman Stevens mansion and the other one is David Hughes mansion which David used was part of the continental railroad he provided the golden spike
Can't believe you missed the "Baby Del" in Coronado. It was built as a test bed for the iconic Hotel Del Coronado. The Del has been the set location of many movies such as Marilyn Monroe's Some like it hot. The Baby was built across the bay in what would eventually become a bad neighborhood falling into disrepair and the victim of vandalism. My father, was in real estate at the time, arranged for the owners of an ocean view home to give up the land they had a tennis court on and the Baby was fully restored, moved to Ocean Blvd, just down the street from the Del Coronado. I've been in it a couple times and it's absolutely gorgeous.
This was a fun video love to the music but you kind of overlooked San Jose for victorians we still have a bunch of them here the Winchester isn't the only one. It's just the biggest.
@@schmancy2978 ever since I was a child I've been into architecture. Growing up at Stanford University there was a wide variety of architectural gems throughout the campus as well as the city of Palo Alto. I'm so excited to be able to see videos from people that are able to go to these locations and document things that most people will never get to see thank you. From the urban Guerrilla exploration of abandoned homes to the slick stylized most cinematic real estate agent sales pitch videos I love it all.
We have a historical society here that is well aware of where they are there used to be walking tours I don't know with covid if they're even still doing them.
Great vid! Downtown Sacramento has at least 100 beautiful victorians. Not as large as these, but still nice. The Sacramento Hostel ( I don't know the original name) would be a great candidate to make this list. I would take it over the Heilbron House.
It seems like there is a common them on all of these houses, the 2 year curse, either sell it 2 years or die in tow years. There is a grand house in Riverside off the 14 th ST and the 91 freeway not restored but a looker, I used to call it the Ugliest House in Riverside due to the horrible color they painted it, they did a re paint on it to soften it up.
Great video. In Los Angeles they had bunker hill which built in 1880s had Victorian mansions which you can see in film noir movies the 30s run down it was torn down and flattened to build LA music center. West Adams became the next Beverly Hills before Hancock Park I show people west Adams to people live in LA and don't know about the mansions. You should check it out. LA is real bad at preserving history
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I love Victorian's. They are some of the most beautifully designed and built homes
Check out my great grandparent’s home, now a museum, on our estate in Northern California
PATTERSON HOUSE
AT ARDENWOOD HISTORIC FARM.
Our family owned close to 20K acres of farmland in the Bay Area during the mid 1800s to early 1900s and on
Also the home is now a museum and attracts visitors from around the world
Eureka and Ferndale, CA are great locations for Victorians, as is Napa. I was blown away by some of the gorgeous ones up there. If you like Victorians, you will want to make a trek to those three locations.
Redlands California have so many! Dating back to the mid or late 1800s.
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Riverside and Redlands still have many of these beautiful homes still standing.
I grew up not far from the Beach house in Escondido. In the late 90’s, my husband and I had the privilege to tour the inside. The then elderly owners had put the home up for sale. They were very sweet and told us the history, along with the painstaking attention to restoration of the home.
Grew up in Humboldt and these houses were everywhere. My aunt lived in one that use to be a hospital. 8 bedrooms with 4 full bathrooms. Great places to play hide and seek as a child but was very eerie when you're alone in one of the secret passages in the walls.
Fair enough as many are haunted. Thanks for sharing and watching!
my parents live halfway between Ferndale and Rio Dell in a n old victorian they remodeled.
Secret passages!!
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@@miss.l.1563 There's a closet upstairs that the sidewall could open and you're able to walk in between the walls around the whole upstairs and it also has a staircase going downstairs behind the wall of the staircase in the house.
Victorian architecture is my favorite! I have stayed at the Gingerbread Mansion and the Morey Mansion - fabulous.
Beautiful buildings. #16 the Long Waterman house has a tower balcony, not a turret balcony. The structure extends all the way to the ground floor/first floor, making it a tower. Turrets can only start from the floors above.
I love everything Victorian ! ❤ Especially the beautiful homes that were built !
Absolutely stunning designs and luxurious !
Thank you 🙏
So glad to hear some of these have reverted to private residence. The thought of all those shoes tramping over those beautiful wooden floors just kills me!!!
I work next door to Morey Mansion at Redlands Community Hospital. I’ve toured the house when it was a B&B. It is spectacular inside and out. It’s located near a canyon with million dollar views of the valley.
I love the Vedic Temple. I stayed at the Britt House when it was a bed and breakfast in the late 1980s. I'm just glad to see these have all been preserved. The Villa Montezuma in San Diego is also impressive, and has a tie-in with spiritualism, popular at the time. It has been a museum for many years.
Good call! Thanks for sharing!
OMG came here to mention Villa Montezuma! glad to see it getting the love it deserves
I clicked on this just to see if Kimberly Crest in Redlands was on here.
Nice to see the Morey Mansion made the cut!
I used to love seeing it on my walks as a teenager.
Thanks for watching!
Back in the seventies when I was in high school I'd walk to the Kimberly Crest & visit with Mary Kimberly Shirk. She loved to garden & I learned a lot from her. She was an amazing lady!!! 🙂
Thanks for the sensitive treatment of the Winchester Mystery House. The structure is clearly a marvel without the sensational and dubious tales of Sarah Winchester.👍
Agreed. Thanks for watching!
I wouldn't say dubious...as what kind of person would build stairs and doors to know where and ring a bell tower at midnight ..It's a beautiful place but very strange .
@@modestoca25 she wasn't nearly as strange as the later owners made her out to be. Don't forget the 1906 earthquake collapsed a couple floors in that house explaining why there's stairways going no where, by that time she was very elderly and just dealt with what was left and lived in it
@@califdad4 what about the doors to nowhere? The seance room? Those aren't near the tower. She also used the number 13 a lot...I didn't say she was strange btw, I said the house was....I believe she was haunted.
@@modestoca25 all her close help in the house that was with her constantly, never saw a seance, that was all a big Story from the later owners of the house doing tours, trying to create interest. She was a numerologist and very interested in Masonic history, but not trying to contact the dead. Also she moved to California after her husband and child's death because her family was out here, her cousin was a lieutenant Governor of the state . Most of the story's we have been told about her, were lies
Yay! I thought that was the pink lady in the thumb. I’ve been in her and the Carson mansion. Humboldt is so beautiful, still live here n love it.
We couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching!
Same here! 🌊🌲
There's another cool old victorian in Lodi, CA called Hill House Inn that is beautiful inside and out and also very haunted. McHenry Mansion in Modesto, CA is also quite nice and haunted (although they deny it).
Oh wow! These two are gorgeous. Thank you. We will jot them down to perhaps include in a future video.
Hill House is definitely haunted! I toured it, and in one of the upstairs bedrooms, there was definitely an eerie energy and I felt a pocket of cold air in one area of the room...
I was so happy I came across this video. I love the Victorian architecture and dream someday of living in a genuine old Victorian home.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Love Victorian style. Just from the outside images, I'd have to say that #14 the Winchester mansion is my favorite.
Would be awesome to see more details and images of the interiors of these grand houses.
A fantastic video. There was clearly a lot of effort and research put into making it. I do wish that you could have included Hale House in Heritage Square, Los Angeles. There are some spectacular homes on Carroll Avenue as well such as the Sessions House. Other than that it was a highly enjoyable watch.
Both houses are amazing! Wished we had known about them. Thanks for sharing!
I would like to suggest Port Townsend Washington. An entire town of victorian beauty. It still retains the "uptown" and "downtown", so the finer ladies didn't have to mingle with the rowdy sailors. Most are bed and breakfasts which are all open to the public for viewing for a short time in the spring. It even has an old military base full of victorian homes and barracks for the personnel. All in one town!
Beautiful town! Will try to feature it in a future video!
this video shows a delightful collection of buildings. very fun to watch, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
Another beautiful Victorian house you forgot was seen every week on the tv show "Fantasy Island", it's near Pasadena, California.
Wow I love the Victoria style is awesome they’re beautiful🥰💕🦋
Yes they are! Thank you for watching!
Gorgeous, Gorgeous, Gorgeous!❤
Agreed! Cheers!
It hurts when I see one of these gorgeous creations torn down
Love these colorful historic homes! 🏡❤️
We are restoring a big 4-Square house completed in 1907. I love Queen Ann houses but due to all of the detailed wood work and roofing, they can cost a ghastly amount of money to renovate correctly. Great video!
A stunningly beautiful presentation ! And most informative ! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
They're all my Favorite!
What is so amazing about the Carson mansion in Eureka is not even the home design but the jaw-dropping woodwork inside. As he was a Logger Baron, it is all California Redwood highly polished with the beautiful grain and it just takes one's breath away! It is a shame that it isn't open to the public at least at some part of the year because the pictures of that woodwork is something all should see.
So proud to see the Humboldt Co. Victorians on the list! I've been lucky to and have been able to tour three out of the four (Bair-Stokes House in Arcata I haven't toured.) We have so many amazing Victorian homes here, and you could do a whole video on the Victorian Village of Ferndale itself!
Thanks. We couldn’t agree more and may consider featuring these areas on a future video.
a whole video on ferndale itself would be amazing. especially since there were 3 movies filmed there. Outbreak, Majestic and Salems Lot(parts of it atleast). one of these days i want to do a video history of the area i grew up in in the ferndale valley, Grizzly Bluff. There is a lot of little known history in that little valley that needs to be recorded.
This was awesome thanks
Alameda has some of the most amazing victorians. Theres even an area with "mini" Victorians. Walking those neighborhoods is beautiful
We have to agree! Thanks for watching!
I love Victorian homes especially Queen Anne Victorian. I was fortunate to grow up in a Victorian home and I currently live in a California Craftsman beach side in Long Beach. I like to visit the Victorian homes in Northern CA like the Carson and Pink Lady in Eureka, staying at the Gingerbread Mansion in Ferndale and seeing the Bair in Arcata. But I prefer the weather of So Cal. There are lots of Victorians in areas like Orange, OC, Riverside and some of my favs are down in Hillcrest area of San Diego as well. I hope to retire soon a purchase a little Victorian Cottage but So Cal in insanely expensive.
I live in central PA , USA . We have some lovely victorans here , and all over America.
Beautiful! I'm surprised Bembridge House in Long Beach didn't make the cut. Maybe next time 🤗
Well done. I have been to many of these homes and to pick a favorite is difficult indeed as each have unique qualities. Being from San Diego originally I was quite enamored with this video. I;ll be spending a week at The Vick next month and have this video to thank for introducing it to me. My cousin lived in an 1884 Victorian two blocks from San Jose State back in the late 60s. It had been closed up since 1924 and all the original furnishing where left behind. No electricity, on gas lamps where used. Jimi Hendricks was a frequent visitor. It was torn down to make a parking lot around 1971.
Thanks for taking the time to watch our video! It’s always quite sad when these historic homes get destroyed. Enjoy your time at the Vick!
I've got pictures of both the Pink Lady and the Carson Mansion.
I've seen the Carson Mansion. It's a very beautiful building.
Yes it’s quite remarkable!
You selected some really great places! I'm glad the Old Vendanta Temple was included because it really blew me away when I first saw it while walking around the area! It used to be painted in shades of purple and lavender up until the last 7 years! I had nicknamed it "The Dream Genie House" before I knew what it was! Haha! If you do another video on the subject another wonderful place to see in SF is the William Westerfield House next to Alamo Square Park around the corner from the Painted Ladies. Additionally there's a very beautiful row of immaculate gingerbread victorian houses along the corner of Masonic and Waller streets.
The William Westerfeld house is amazing. Jotted for possibly a future video.
On the East Coast Cape May, NJ has many interesting Victorian houses! 🥰
Yes, we will have to do a video just on Cape May. Most likely in the summertime. Stay tuned and thanks for watching.
@@schmancy2978 Thanks for your kind rey! Will definitely stay tuned! Thanks again for these interesting videos! 🤗🇩🇪🇨🇭💙🇺🇲🌲🌄🌲
Victorian houses are everywhere in California that were built by these same architects💯%fact
Thank you so much❤️💯❤️
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!
As a native Californian, born and raised, I often wondered WHY there were so few
Victorian mansions in Los Angeles. I later discovered that, though
LA has as long a history as San Francisco, their early mansions were built with
adobe and didn't survive.
When I came up to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was FLABBERGASTED by
the ABUNDANCE of Victorian-style homes throughout the Bay Area!
Even in Oakland, they're EVERYWHERE for miles surrounding the downtown
area, AND they're still occupied. Many of them NOT RENOVATED!
Even old houses and buildings that aren't Victorian, but date back to the
late 19th and early 20th century. It's like an old active time capsule.
Carriage houses, here and there, in Oakland, still standing, still in use,
many painted and patched-up. It's mind-blowing.
Thanks for the video, WHAT A TREAT!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for sharing! Stay tuned for a future part 2!
LA tore them all down
For several years I lived in Los Angeles, in the area north of the USC campus bounded by W. 30th Street, Orchard, Adams, and Hoover. Lots of original residences from about the 1880s up through the early 20th Century bungalows are still standing. Part of the area is a designated historic district. The house I lived in was completed in 1902. Thanks to the technology of Google street view, you can take a little virtual tour through the area from the comfort of your own home. For a while, the pictures posted from the street where I used to live had been taken while the jacarandas were in bloom, and it was beautiful. Alas, not the current pictures.
Grass Valley CA has a huge amount of upgraded Victorian houses even Eureka CA too!
I love them all, hard to decide without interior photos
These homes should be given to large family's, to grow up in peace joy and creativity
Thank you. I( would love to see an episode on Victorian stained glass windows
I liked that last one. The random swirl on one side was just too cool of a feature and there's something about a vivid blue house that appeals to me.
Thanks for watching!
I'm so sad you didn't include the Haas-Lilienthal House in San Francisco as it's the city's only Victorian that is open regularly as a museum ( it even has period furniture and this massive train set they found in the attic that still works.) but I know there are so many wonderful Victorians in that city alone you could probably do a whole video.
Wow. That’s another one we missed! Will have to add to our list for part two. Thank you!
They are all heavenly!!!! RM.
Very inspiring for playing the Sims. I always create a Addams Family style family that lives in an old dark Victorian mansion. This gives me lots of inspiration
4 of those in Humboldt county California
The downtown LA area of Bunker hill and fort Moore hills once had beautiful houses like these until the 1950's all leveled with the hill it's self for the freeway system and development. It be a crying shame to tear down these current survivors.
We agree!
This is a great video and included a few houses I had not heard of. I am surprised, though, that the Carson Mansion in Eureka, across the street from the Pink Lady, was not included on this list.
I think you missed it... It's just before The Pink Lady.
Thanks. Carson Mansion was #5.
Your videos are great 👍.
Glad you like them! Thank you!
So many other homes that should make the list. All the homes at Heritage Square Museum, The houses in downtown Oakland in the village behind the library... So many more.
Hi. I grew up in Southern California across the street from Knott's Berry Farm, so I love that this is all about California Victorian's. 3 were torn down near me. Made me sad to see them gone.
Sad when developers don’t value history. Thanks for sharing and watching.
@@schmancy2978 it really is sad. The Victorian's across the street from me, were a white 2 story and the other was a white single story. They were torn down to make room for 2 small apartment complexes, and the 2 larger white ones just a block from my high school were torn down to make room for a church & it's grounds, while the other was torn down to make room for 3 large homes. I loved those old Victorian's so much I dreamed of one day owning and living in one of them.
At 6:50 along a couple of blocks on Berding Street, there are quite a few, larger homes that are very nice. There are quite a few more modest homes along that same street, which do not have the scale, nor the ornamentation of those much larger homes, but are nice with very nice landscaping...
Yes very true. Thanks for the info!
Beautiful
Neat presentation of Victorians in CA! That background noise -not music - is too distracting. Video can do w/o such noise!
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The Villa Montezuma in San Diego should be on this list. But there are so many in the state that are spectacular.
Good call! We’ve added it to our list to perhaps feature in a future video!
Funny enough, that beautiful pink house shown at the very begging, not included in the lineup, is in a small town in NY called Wellsville! The house and it’s grounds just finished a 5 year renovation/rehab. It’s so pretty in person
Cool! Thanks for the info!
As a Brit when I move to California I will need one of these beautiful Victorian-style houses.And being Hindu I'll be visiting the Vedanta Old temple then lol Very educational video and all the houses are beautiful .
Thanks for watching! Cheers!
Number 7 is my favorite.. Just enough shrubbery and a beautiful paint job.. 🤗
Good choice! It’s quite remarkable!
The Winchester House. Especially pre earthquake.
Thanks and when you get the chance check out the victorian neighborhood in Raleigh NC, called Historic Oakwood, including our Governor's mansion.
Thank you! Will do!
Wow… I don’t understand how you passed over Pasadena Queen Ann’s.
I should explain… I’m sorry for my comment. My grandmother owned Hilmount (I believe that’s the correct spelling) in Pasadena, Ca. Hollywood loved her home… they filmed Richard Pryor life story , Polly Anna, and many more movies & T.V. Show’s. It’s a beautiful Queen Anne that was built in the 1880’s. It holds many beautiful memories for me. All of my Summer’s were spent with my grandma in Hilmount. Checkout Millionaires Row, Pasadena, Ca. the streets are lined with gorgeous home’s. Different type’s of architecture. Thank you for posting!
We looked up Hilmount. It’s a gorgeous home. We might make a 2nd California Victorian video in the future, as so many more have been brought to our attention. We are definitely adding Hilmount to the list. Thank you!
@@schmancy2978 I’d love to see it! ❤️
Wow, I want a mission castle house too!
#7 made me smile but they are all beautiful
Glad you enjoyed it!
How could you forget all of the houses like this in National City, CA just outside of San Diego. There's so many of these homes and buildings there.
Noted. Thanks.
Bidell mansion in Chico CA is pretty cool and has a lot of history
I have visited both the governors mansion and the Winchester house. I didn’t realize you couldn’t view the governor mansion anymore but I toured it back in 2013. Winchester is pretty neat. If I remember correctly I think the guide told us she was really short.
There are also beautiful Victorian mansions in sonoma and Santa Rosa. I found this very fascinating
Thanks, we’ll look into it!
I love the Victorian architecture in Los Angeles
Growing up in Ventura California in the 60s 70s and 80s there were a few really nice Victorian homes. Some got restored. Not sure if they're there anymore
These houses are very ornate, and multi colored.🥰
Yes they are!
Thank you for the info and the visuals. I was going to buy a victorian home, at a very low price, on Soto Avenue., in East Los Angeles, which has a high crime, and various retaliating gang members, in that area. I didn't mind though, because the house was, although delapitated, very beautiful. It has the bones, and I visualizd the outcome of the renovation, but the owners changed their minds on selling. 😔
One thing that may not be understood about many earlier architectural styles -- think, Victorian and before -- was, until the 20th century, architecture was considered one of the three major art forms, with the other two being sculpture and painting. Music and writing weren't even included, because they were considered commonplace. This is one reason the rich and titled from the earlier centuries commissioned such grandiose designs as well as the reason so much effort was put into each home.
We learn something new everyday. Thank you!
You should do the nicest Victorian homes in each state.
Yes that is the plan. Thanks!
I love the first pink one! What about that one? 😃💕
The one shown in the intro is actually in New York State. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing is wonderful works of art but there are two of them that you missed and they are in Tustin California one is the Sherman Stevens mansion and the other one is David Hughes mansion which David used was part of the continental railroad he provided the golden spike
Thanks. Noted. We’ll keep them in mind for our future videos.
Can't believe you missed the "Baby Del" in Coronado. It was built as a test bed for the iconic Hotel Del Coronado. The Del has been the set location of many movies such as Marilyn Monroe's Some like it hot. The Baby was built across the bay in what would eventually become a bad neighborhood falling into disrepair and the victim of vandalism. My father, was in real estate at the time, arranged for the owners of an ocean view home to give up the land they had a tennis court on and the Baby was fully restored, moved to Ocean Blvd, just down the street from the Del Coronado. I've been in it a couple times and it's absolutely gorgeous.
Good call! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Number 5....how much to tour it?!?! I would love to tour that place.
This was a fun video love to the music but you kind of overlooked San Jose for victorians we still have a bunch of them here the Winchester isn't the only one. It's just the biggest.
Yes this is very true. Way too many to list. We’re considering a part 2. Thanks for watching!
@@schmancy2978 ever since I was a child I've been into architecture. Growing up at Stanford University there was a wide variety of architectural gems throughout the campus as well as the city of Palo Alto. I'm so excited to be able to see videos from people that are able to go to these locations and document things that most people will never get to see thank you. From the urban Guerrilla exploration of abandoned homes to the slick stylized most cinematic real estate agent sales pitch videos I love it all.
We have a historical society here that is well aware of where they are there used to be walking tours I don't know with covid if they're even still doing them.
There's a place in Oakland I did a fashion show there I can't remember the name of it but it was in the movie burnt offerings
Great vid! Downtown Sacramento has at least 100 beautiful victorians. Not as large as these, but still nice. The Sacramento Hostel ( I don't know the original name) would be a great candidate to make this list. I would take it over the Heilbron House.
Wish we had known about the Sacramento Hostel. Great call though. Perhaps we’ll feature it on a future video.
I recommend a list and timestamps of all of the mansions
There is the Banning house in Wilmington Ca that was left out, its a beautiful home.
Good call! Thank you!
Thought I would see the Bidwell mansion in Chico , CA. It's the most grand up in far northern Ca.
We’ve added it to our list for perhaps a future video. Thanks.
Omg pink one..
It seems like there is a common them on all of these houses, the 2 year curse, either sell it 2 years or die in tow years. There is a grand house in Riverside off the 14 th ST and the 91 freeway not restored but a looker, I used to call it the Ugliest House in Riverside due to the horrible color they painted it, they did a re paint on it to soften it up.
You should do one on the beautiful victorian homes on Galveston Island.
Gavelston Island is amazing! We will definitely add it to our list for a future video.
@@schmancy2978 looking forward to it thanks 👍
Newsom decided it was best to move from this gorgeous home to a $5.9 million spread.
Amazing how much money these politicians make!
Public service has become quite a lucrative career in these times. Lots of perks and benefits!
I like the Bair Stokes House
Sad you didn't show Villa Montezuma in San Diego.
How about the Crocker house in Sacramento. It is opened for tours.
Good call! Thank you.
Great video. In Los Angeles they had bunker hill which built in 1880s had Victorian mansions which you can see in film noir movies the 30s run down it was torn down and flattened to build LA music center. West Adams became the next Beverly Hills before Hancock Park I show people west Adams to people live in LA and don't know about the mansions. You should check it out. LA is real bad at preserving history
Thank you for the info! We plan on more Victorian videos and will definitely research West Adams to add to our list. Cheers!
I like the Pink lady and the Elizabethan
the greenbriar house in merced ca is great
Yes, Merced alone has many beautiful homes. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
How does the Bidwell House in Chico measure up?
Great call!