Architecture
The value of any place is created by what we see and what we feel when we are in its midst. Architecture, perhaps more than any other element, ascribes the feelings we have about a place that either make us rush to leave, or long to stay connected to it.
Roseland relentlessly pursues architectural excellence through the guidance of our Pattern Book and detailed review of every plan that is proposed. The homes are based on historical precedents of Virginia traditions and the office and retail uses are tied to the homes through careful material and design selection.
Roseland is a town meant to last. Our every building will testify to this commitment.
Victorian
Most of these houses are early Federal style houses that were renovated during the mid and late nineteenth century to look like the Victorian cottage designs being promoted through books by Andrew Jackson Downing and others. These cottages feature steeply pitched gable roofs facing the street, deep porches with slender columns and decorative trim combined with vertical proportions to create a tall, slender image.
Arts & Crafts
Arts & Crafts houses were based on the English tradition of designing summer cottages in a more organic and natural style. This attitude about craft and architecture became popular in this country in the late nineteenth century. A mix of natural materials such as stone, brick, and clapboard and an expression of structure for the roof and porch elements are signature elements of this style.Windows tend to be in proportion and combined to take advantage of the light in living areas. Asymmetric composition and massing are part of this vocabulary.
Classical
These houses have roots in the early Colonial and Classical traditions of the tidewater region. Roseland Colonial Revival houses will draw on the early Georgian style that grew in the more rural areas outside of the more formal estates and civic structures. These houses will be a mix of clapboard and brick types with simple eave lines and clean vertical proportions for windows and dormers. Living porches will move from the back to the front as well, given the location within a neighborhood.
European Romantic
Houses designed in this style have roots in the country’s interpretation of English and European cottages around the first quarter of the twentieth century. Many of these houses were built as interpretations of the original stone or stucco precedents found in England using accents of cut shingles and clapboard siding. There are many brick and stone examples with half-timbered accents as well. Houses are generally simple, elegant forms with asymmetric compositions and a variety of casement or double-hung windows.