Commercial Italianate - Manotick Ontario

Impressive red brick Italianate - Tavistock Ontario

A Victorian Farmhouse - Galt Ontario

Probably a very early house for this area, I would guess built close to the start of the Victorian Era in the 1850's or 1860's. Simple in style with some Italianate influences, now a threeplex apartment. Many homes in Galt are built from the local stone you see here.

Impressive Italianate Vicarage - Galt Ontario

A Textbook 'Italianate' - Kitchener Ontario

This house has a few interesting features, including stepped brick corners, as well as a stepped skirting row just under the eaves and skirting board. A really nice example of the style.

Stucco 'Italianate' - Waterloo Ontario

Another nice Italianate, though this time of painted stucco rather than brick. Unfortunately the two storey entrance addition gives the impression that this is a rooming house, as it is not in keeping with the building at all. My solution would be to rip it down and put in a larger footprint one storey entrance sunroom, or build it taller to match the roofline of the main house... oh, and get rid of the awful horizontal siding.

Impressive painted 'Italianate' - Waterloo Ontario

A very impressive Italianate, with classic features of the style: Shallow pitch rooflines, doubled corbels, and the classic low arched rectangular windows typically set in pairs.

Interesting Woodstock Street Victorian - Tavistock Ontario

A lovely painted brick Victorian Italianate: The eaves, corbels, and windows are definately Italianate; although the steep roofline and gable ends suggest Queen Anne, they would be of a different material, not the same brick as the walls. Though not rare, Gable ends are not particularly common on Italianate homes, this house has three. The exception that proves the rule, perhap?

Yellow Brick 'Italianate' - Tavistock Ontario

A very interesting Italianate, with unusual symmetry, and two bay windows on the front facade. I have yet to see any house like it in my travels.

Red brick 'Italianate' - Tavistock Ontario

An absolutely beautiful house, with the red brick set off by the black of the corbels, soffits, fascia, and other trim.

Vansittart Avenue - Woodstock Ontario

Probably the finest example of an 'Italian Villa' in Southwestern Ontario, with a multitude of doubled corbels (brackets), two Juliet balconies, and a magnificent tower. Note the extremely shallow pitch of the roof, great in England, but less so in Ontario.

Vansittart Avenue 'Italianate' - Woodstock Ontario

A stunning Italianate house, with beautiful doubled brackets. Interestingly, a wraparound porch and bay window have been added, atypical of the traditional style, though whoever did them matched the roof pitch, so they don't look out of place at all.

Courtland Avenue 'Italianate' Cottage #2 - Kitchener Ontario

The neighbor to yesterday's house. Identical in most respects, but with the addition of what appears to be an 'Arts and Crafts' front porch, the like of which appear all over the region. I think it fits because it was probably built at the same time as the house.

Courtland Avenue 'Italianate' cottage #1 - Kitchener Ontario

Everything says Italianate about this pretty little house, the roof, the windows, the brackets, and more. But what happened to the second storey? An uncommon Italianate cottage, Courtland Avenue.

Victorian - Tavistock Ontario

Of indeterminate style, this yellow brick is typical of many Victorian Era homes in Ontario. It has some Italianate elements, and some Queen Anne. A shame about the mudroom addition, but that 'sixties brick could be covered up.

Blue 'Italianate' - Kitchener Ontario

A classic Italianate, notice the shallower pitched roof than the previous Italianates I posted. For as long as I can remeber (20 years) this house hase been painted blue.

'Italianate' with addition - Tavistock Ontario

The neighboring house to yesterday's illustrates an often ignored rule of making additions to historic homes: An addition should be complementary, not identical, to the original house. Perhaps the other rule is if you need more space, buy a larger house. Salt and Pepper brickwork does not match the yellow, I think it's dreadful.

A Simple 'Italianate' - Tavistock Ontario

Its elegance lies in its simplicity, a wonderful Italianate style home, fairly common in small towns in Southwestern Ontario.