Where are there more Victorian homes? Bay Area or LA/OC/IE? (Los Angeles: apartment, neighborhoods)

[SoCal_Mom]

I was just in Redlands today and visited the Kimberly Crest landmark which was very wow factor. Highly recommend everyone to check it out or at least google it. Anyways I wanted to know where is there more Victorian era homes between those two?

Suburbs in SoCa with many Victorian homes would be: Clarmont, South Pasadena, Riverside, Upland, Redlands, parts of North-East Los Angeles, and Fullerton.

Bay Area: San Francisco, Oakland, Berkley, Santa Rosa, and Vallejo.

Feel free to add more cities or neighborhoods that I might have missed.

[Adriatica]

Many Victorian homes in Sacramento and also in Woodland.

[SoCal_Mom]

I was about to post that I will allow the SAC metro to be included. Thanks for sharing btw

[kettlepot]

Very, very few Victorian homes in San Diego.

The town was fairly small during that period so not that many were built. Later when the city exploded in size, 14-fold (40k to 573k), between 1910 to 1960, the bulk of what there were, were bulldozed.

The City, developers, and housing activists hope to bulldoze the majority of the City's 1920s Bungalow and Spanish style homes as well.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by kettlepot

Very, very few Victorian homes in San Diego.

The town was fairly small during that period so not that many were built. Later when the city exploded in size, 14-fold (40k to 573k), between 1910 to 1960, the bulk of what there were, were bulldozed.

The City, developers, and housing activists hope to bulldoze the majority of the City's 1920s Bungalow and Spanish style homes as well.

Craftsman style, Spanish style, Victorians, mid-century, Art Deco, Adobe are Californias architectural heritage, don't let them destroy that, once gone, they will forever be gone.

In Sacramento, the City just saved three 1910 Classics and the owner who could have made more money on building larger apartment buildings has committed to preserving the homes and restoring them to their original decor.

[Mr5150]

The gold country towns have entire streets and side streets of historic homes. Come visit

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

Originally Posted by Mr5150

The gold country towns have entire streets and side streets of historic homes. Come visit

Yes! So beautiful to see them in the hills. The backdrop is stunning. Makes me think of a motorcycle ride I went on once, and we stopped to have breakfast at this great place called Awful Annies, or something like that. Somewhere around Placerville?

San Jose has quite a few, even Santa Clara near the mission/old downtown area.

Alameda in the south Bay Area is famous for it's Victorian homes. Forget the significance, something like the most Victorians per capita or something. Too lazy to Google it. But, they're really pretty and well taken care of.

All of the old towns around the SF Bay will have them. Some have fallen into ruin, which is so sad.

Eureka, CA has quite a few. The weather is hard on them up there, and it's not a wealthy area, so a lot of those seem to be deteriorating, but that's a pretty setting, too, next to the ocean.

[LuvSouthOC]

Santa Ana.

[kettlepot]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Craftsman style, Spanish style, Victorians, mid-century, Art Deco, Adobe are Californias architectural heritage, don't let them destroy that, once gone, they will forever be gone.

In Sacramento, the City just saved three 1910 Classics and the owner who could have made more money on building larger apartment buildings has committed to preserving the homes and restoring them to their original decor.

From your post to God's ear, but alas, our City leadership are in the midst of a housing panic.

There are currently multiple proposals to upzone our historic neighborhoods and plow them under. Our municipal leadership, paired with the development industry are giddy at the prospect of seeing them torn down. It's appalling to see.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by kettlepot

Very, very few Victorian homes in San Diego.

The town was fairly small during that period so not that many were built. Later when the city exploded in size, 14-fold (40k to 573k), between 1910 to 1960, the bulk of what there were, were bulldozed.

The City, developers, and housing activists hope to bulldoze the majority of the City's 1920s Bungalow and Spanish style homes as well.

It's tragic to see old photos of San Diego from that era, because the relatively few Victorians that were there tended to be larger estate size homes rather than dense urban housing like San Francisco. They were beautiful. A nice collection of them has been assembled and preserved at Preservation Park outside of Old Town, and there are a handful of gorgeous mansions scattered about Bankers Hill and Golden Hill.

I also recently noticed some in the city of Orange, although there were far more Arts & Crafts than Victorian. My brother used to live in Redlands years ago, and I remember those well. Beautiful!