Victorian West

The influence of Great Britain's long reigning Queen Victoria is felt all over the English speaking world especially in the architectural field. Victorian, a convenient but popular term when it is realized that it designates a period rather than a style. Lambert Florin, determined to preserve as many of these treasures as he could, pictures houses that are still to be seen in California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Nevada, as well as churches, hotels and railway stations.