Cracaterized for their high detail and amplitude of spaces, Victorian architecture mansions became popular in the United States during the so -called Gilded Age as an opulence symbol.Jessica Furtney / UNSPLASH.
The interior of the Victorian mansion: the origin of its relationship with terror
And if abroad the Victorian architecture was shockingit is inside these imposing constructions where the Association with horror movies. The extensions of these houses were so large that historically they are described as immense «labyrinths» where there used to be different environments and rooms dedicated to all kinds of activity, from conventional bedrooms to specific rooms for all types of activity. Libraries, observatories, drawing, beauty; The configuration of these and the little use that were favored the idea of conceiving these mansions such as “a maze of spaces that are there to catch you instead of helping you”, as explained to media Adam Lowest, a film professor at Pittsburgh University. Hence, of the bull, he has not spared efforts to raise the great mansion of The scarlet summit Like a true house with living corners.
The little use that was given to the rooms crammed with furniture and the amplitude of dimensions is another of the reasons that made of the Victorian style, a referent of horror cinema. Experts have explained that to try to protect the expensive furniture, the owners of these mansions used to place thick curtains that prevented the passage of sunlight. In addition, the excess of furniture and ornaments complicated the cleaning and maintenance work, which it brought achieved the accumulation of dust, cobwebs and «the kind of things we associate with the haunted»
The details of the Victorian mansions such as their inclined roofs and decoration of Jengibre's house facilitated their deterioration and eventual relationship with abandonment.Kristi Johnson / Unspash.
The crazy Addams, The phenomenon that defined the Victorian style with terror
The First World War even cimbó to the architecture, and the Victorian house became the antithesis of the American urban line that works by modernist architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. Given the simple and refined lines, the style was morbid and obsolete. «It produced the most grotesque» Construcciones, referred to the Washington Post of that movement in an article in 1934. The decline was clear and the call of modernism led to the fact that the Victorian mansions soon starred in postals for abandonment and deterioration. Something that, far from ghosts, explains experts, is attributed to the high maintenance costs they required.