Elvira T. Manor Davis House - Historical Marker

Victorian-era design is known for heavy ornamentation. Its characteristics include a use of Middle Eastern and Asian influences in the interior decoration. Movements that mark their beginnings in the Victorian era and gothic period include the Arts and Crafts movement, the aesthetic movement, Anglo- Japanese style, and Art Nouveau style. The classical revival style, popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exhibited features of Roman structures of antiquity. Buildings of this style are often rectangular and symmetrical in a manner similar to classical temples. The walls are often of brick, stucco, stone, or wood construction. Buildings of this style also often feature a two-story monumental portico, painted white, with a triangular pediment containing a semi-circular window within its tympanum, an entablature above the columnns, and a pediments roof supported by four columnns resting on square bases. The style experienced a revival in the late nineteenth- mid twentieth centuries.