Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Gingerbread

Heavily, gaudily, and superfluously ornamented

Commonly used in reference to late 19th century Victorian architecture

Found in Gothic Revival, Queen Anne styles

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Richard Hatch House
  
  
• Boies-Lord House (Hamburg)

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