Victorian

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“This meticulously restored Victorian delivers the ultimate Hamptons lifestyle: a luxuriously appointed main residence, a lofted studio, and resort-like grounds with a heated gunite pool.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

In the 1920s and 30s the Marine Drive corniche, with its Art Deco buildings was constructed, birthing a uniquely modern architectural style that departed from the earlier Victorian Gothic character.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The hotel, a short walk from world-renowned museums, is formed of conjoined Victorian townhouses with British and Irish flags displayed out front.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

The road they were in now, in her world, was quiet and tree-lined, with big Victorian houses in shrub-filled gardens.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman