Photo Journey: Gingerbread

You'll see many examples of the ornately decorated Victorian trim known as Gingerbread. Relatively recently, Victorian home owners began to bring out the detailed features on the trim by painting in bright and contrasting colors. This probably originated in the 1960's (Haight-Ashbury times), when hippies painted their "pads" crazy colors to shock their elders. The Victorian color would have been white with blue or black trim around the windows.

	At left and above, lavishly detailed Victorian Gingerbread. Below, the Ohabai Shalome Synagogue, late Victorian 1880's, painted redwood version of the Doge's Palace in Venice.