12 Overwrought Victorians and one Alley

I quit the gym a few years ago. Now I just walk around the town. Maybe I have a huge thing for Victorians because I grew up here, but nevertheless I am in the tall clover. This is the perfect storm of Victorian houses. There was an economic boom when the style was popular, the available building material is virtually rot proof, and it took very well to turning and carving. Then the prosperity faded away. If this city had become a metropolis in the intervening hundred years, very few of these would have survived the ensuing commercial development. I finally took a camera with me to share a few of my faves.

( Avast, mateys, there be pixels ahead. )