Gingerbread (architecture)

For the model house dessert, see Gingerbread house.
Gingerbread trim on a Victorian-era house in Cape May, New Jersey

Gingerbread is an architectural style that consists of elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim.[1] It is more specifically used to describe the detailed decorative work of American designers in the late 1860s and 1870s,[2] which was associated mostly to the Carpenter Gothic style.[3] It was loosely based on the Picturesque period of English architecture in the 1830s.[2]

  1. ^ Gage, Marjorie E. (2 February 2007). "Gingerbread Trim: Feast your eyes on these ornate Victorian-era embellishments". This Old House Ventures. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Gingerbread | architecture". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  3. ^ "Stick style". Britannica. Retrieved 1 March 2021.