Victorian

The academy’s show is installed in its newly renovated landmark building, a Victorian masterpiece designed by the architect Frank Furness of the noted firm Furness & Hewitt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

She sold the adorable Victorian bungalow 13 years later for $950,000.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Her paintings, like her images, feel like moving through a fog made of glass and wood, chaos and restraint, Lilith in a Victorian steel mill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But around 12,500 places - notably those built during the Victorian era - were closed after falling into disrepair.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Already the birdbath altar of Nefertiti, the fancy pillars from the porch of some Victorian mansion and the crumbling statue of Diana by the entrance were beginning to create a temple-like atmosphere.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Like many educated Victorians, Stanley was dazzled as a child by travelogues and the Arabian Nights tales.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

"It was 2009 ahead of the bushfires where we saw those prevailing conditions and so we are indicating to all Victorians that this is a very serious set of weather conditions."

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026

The Victorians sparked the modern obsession with engineering “lots of different looking dogs to fit different human wants,” said Dr. Rowena Packer, senior lecturer at the University of London’s Royal Veterinary College.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

If people were houses, Lola Celina, my grandmother, would, be a hot-pink Painted Lady—one of those fancy San Francisco Victorians tourists love, with intricate stained glass that casts rainbows onto the sidewalks.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio