THE VICTORIAN SECOND EMPIRE STYLE, ONCE FAVORED BY THE ELITE, IS ENJOYING A REVIVAL AS BUYERS RETURN TO A DESIGN ONCE RELEGATED TO HAUNTED-HOUSE STATUS

The Boston Globe | October 30, 2005| | Copyright

Like most Victorian architecture styles, the popularity of Second Empire waxed and waned throughout the late 18th and early 20th centuries, but by the 1950s and '60s it was so out of fashion that many houses fell into disrepair and looked downright scary.

At about the same time, Hollywood latched onto the image of these once-stately homes as symbols of mystery and mayhem. In Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" from 1960, the Bates home adjacent to the infamous motel was a Second Empire design, as was the cobweb-strewn mansion from "The Addams Family" television series later in the decade. A haunted ...

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