47/50.- San Francisco, Italianate style Victorians on Green St.

If you take a Victorian Historical Walking tour of the Pacific Heights you will hear that the Victorian mansions are referred to as Painted Ladies and described as San Francisco style as long as they combine Old and New World architectural styles and decorative elements: Queen Anne, Tudor, Edwardian, Carpenter, French Revival, Italianate, Stick, Colonial, etc.

San Francisco' s Victorian mansions display mainly Italianate, Stick or Stick/Eastlake and Queen Anne styles. Italianate homes which appeared in San Francisco around 1880 can be quite ornate, with slanted bay windows and tall narrow doors.

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