Victorian Architecture Tour, Westside - City of Alameda

Let's get a group together and visit the City of Alameda for their 51st annual "Legacy House Tour", this year called "West End Stories". Here's the link to buy a ticket. Ten dollars off for early purchasers. Also find more info about this Alameda event.
There will be upwards of forty houses open for interior tours. Personally I could only do a handful of those. The plan is to walk along the tour route and pick out the most interesting of the forty to visit inside.
Alameda, with its beautiful architecture and tree-lined streets is truly one of the most unique places to live in the Bay Area. Visit, take the tour walk, and find out for yourself.
Meet on the sidewalk at the intersection of Lincoln Ave & Linden St., Alameda. Next to the little kids playground.
Option for lunch afterwards.

This info is provided if you are interested in more details about Victorian architecture.
Or just come on the tour and soak up the info!
(Five handout sketches of what is described below, including most of the gingerbread details is provided. We'll also take a minute to go over a color sketch of the interior of a typical Victorian to see what the inside was like.)
(There are five Victorian Styles)

1. Flat front Italianate- (earliest Victorians). (French 2nd Empire appear)
2. Italianate with slanted bay windows.
3. San Francisco Stick Style (also called East Lake). Simpler square bay windows now used. Overall much more elaborate decoration, ornament and gingerbread used.
4. Queen Anne Tower House&Witches Cap, with angled or rounded bay windows & front gable
5. Queen Anne Row House, 1, 1-1/2 or two stories. Large front gable. Possibly and likely a moongate entry.

Features & "Gingerbread"
Type of Entry (maybe a rounded or partial Moongate entry as above)-
Decorative Ironwork- A low fence in front, or a crown at the top.
Floral Decor-Garlands (one of many types of decorations known as *"Gingerbread")
Fish scale and/or Diamond shingles-
Towers & Witch's Cap-
Stained Glass or Beveled Glass-
Carvings of grotesque faces-
Sunbursts- often painted gold, half or full.
Gables (Queen Anne's) in a variety of material- (mainly redwood)
Newel Posts at the end of railings and Finials on Tower tops and roof peaks.

Host or Publisher Jordan M Herrmann