The floor plan was usually divided into a number of different shaped rooms, rather than a simple rectangle like the styles before.

Because of this, the roof had many different shapes, angles, and planes. Victorian roofs had many gables facing in all directions. They were usually two stores with the public rooms on the first floor and the private bedrooms on the second.

Often a Victorian house had a porch across the front that wrapped around the corner and down one side, and sometimes down both sides of the house. The floor of the porch and the first story were raised high off of the ground level.

In the late 1890s and early 1900s, there was an Industrial Revolution around the world. Factories grew bigger and faster. Because of this, many building parts were made in mass during the Victorian time period. Certain things like round porch columns became available to everyone and were often used on Victorian houses. The windows were mass produced too.

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