The term “painted ladies” might seem to mean something disreputable at first glance, but it is definitely not off-color when it refers to Victorian housing. Painted Ladies is the title of a 1978 book ...

More than 100 years after its initial popularity, Victorian-style architecture is once again becoming all the rage in the Chicago area. Three projects that illustrate the renewed appeal of Victorian ...

Exactly how it happens, no one really knows. But it happens: A house eventually becomes something more than a home - more than a mass of carefully measured and assembled wood and glass, Sheetrock and ...

Imagine owning this piece of San Francisco history! One of the city’s most famous homes just went on the market for $2.75 million. The Victorian home built in 1900 is part of the legendary row of ...

It takes a special type of person to invest the time, energy and money necessary to rehabilitate an old house or storefront. But it takes even more dedication to turn an old house or business into a ...

With mass-produced gingerbread trim, even the simplest house style became glamorous. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) There is no one Victorian house style: the ...

Everybody knows the seven Painted Ladies on Alamo Square, but what about the eight sherbet-colored Victorians down the hill on Carmelita Street? There has never been a postcard of these peak-roofed, ...

An iconic Victorian-era Painted Lady-style house in Wheaton listed Dec. 1 for $880,000. Built in 1890 for hotel owner Braman Loveless, the four-bedroom house has a striking exterior, with a raft of ...

It's not just a "Painted Lady," but it's a corner painted lady. And yet that didn't help the mansion at Grove and Steiner streets on San Francisco's Alamo Square sell for more than the asking price, ...

Marcia was an art major in college. For her, drawing and painting are second nature, no more difficult to do than, say, inhaling and exhaling. I, on the other hand, was a communications major. For me, ...