Eastlake Style Architecture in the Lily of the Valley Historic District (1870-1890)

 

The Six Gables Bed & Breakfast

Center Street

 

The Eastlake Style was simply a decorative style of ornamentation found on houses of various other Victorian styles, primarily the Queen Anne and Stick Styles, but entire homes can be classified as Eastlake as well. It is named after Charles L. Eastlake, an English architect who wrote "Hints on Household Taste," published in 1868. The book was reprinted in America in 1872 and became so popular that it required six editions within eleven years. Eastlake style became a kind of catchall term meaning different things to different people. Eastlake styled homes includes wooden forms such as porch posts, railings, balustrades, barge boards, braces and pendants turned on mechanical lathes. Also large curved brackets, scrolls etc at every corner or projection of the façade. A profusion of beaded spindles and lattice work along porch eaves.