17 Most Jaw-Dropping VICTORIAN MANSIONS in CALIFORNIA

I love Victorian's. They are some of the most beautifully designed and built homes

Riverside and Redlands still have many of these beautiful homes still standing.

I grew up not far from the Beach house in Escondido. In the late 90’s, my husband and I had the privilege to tour the inside. The then elderly owners had put the home up for sale. They were very sweet and told us the history, along with the painstaking attention to restoration of the home.

Grew up in Humboldt and these houses were everywhere. My aunt lived in one that use to be a hospital. 8 bedrooms with 4 full bathrooms. Great places to play hide and seek as a child but was very eerie when you're alone in one of the secret passages in the walls.

Redlands California have so many! Dating back to the mid or late 1800s.

Victorian architecture is my favorite! I have stayed at the Gingerbread Mansion and the Morey Mansion — fabulous.

I work next door to Morey Mansion at Redlands Community Hospital. I’ve toured the house when it was a B&B. It is spectacular inside and out. It’s located near a canyon with million dollar views of the valley.

I would like to suggest Port Townsend Washington. An entire town of victorian beauty. It still retains the "uptown" and "downtown", so the finer ladies didn't have to mingle with the rowdy sailors. Most are bed and breakfasts which are all open to the public for viewing for a short time in the spring. It even has an old military base full of victorian homes and barracks for the personnel. All in one town!

I love the Vedic Temple. I stayed at the Britt House when it was a bed and breakfast in the late 1980s. I'm just glad to see these have all been preserved. The Villa Montezuma in San Diego is also impressive, and has a tie-in with spiritualism, popular at the time. It has been a museum for many years.

There's another cool old victorian in Lodi, CA called Hill House Inn that is beautiful inside and out and also very haunted. McHenry Mansion in Modesto, CA is also quite nice and haunted (although they deny it).

I love everything Victorian ! ❤ Especially the beautiful homes that were built ! Absolutely stunning designs and luxurious ! Thank you 🙏

So glad to hear some of these have reverted to private residence. The thought of all those shoes tramping over those beautiful wooden floors just kills me!!!

I'm so sad you didn't include the Haas–Lilienthal House in San Francisco as it's the city's only Victorian that is open regularly as a museum ( it even has period furniture and this massive train set they found in the attic that still works.) but I know there are so many wonderful Victorians in that city alone you could probably do a whole video.

As a native Californian, born and raised, I often wondered WHY there were so few Victorian mansions in Los Angeles. I later discovered that, though LA has as long a history as San Francisco, their early mansions were built with adobe and didn't survive. When I came up to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was FLABBERGASTED by the ABUNDANCE of Victorian-style homes throughout the Bay Area! Even in Oakland, they're EVERYWHERE for miles surrounding the downtown area, AND they're still occupied. Many of them NOT RENOVATED! Even old houses and buildings that aren't Victorian, but date back to the late 19th and early 20th century. It's like an old active time capsule. Carriage houses, here and there, in Oakland, still standing, still in use, many painted and patched-up. It's mind-blowing. Thanks for the video, WHAT A TREAT!

What is so amazing about the Carson mansion in Eureka is not even the home design but the jaw-dropping woodwork inside. As he was a Logger Baron, it is all California Redwood highly polished with the beautiful grain and it just takes one's breath away! It is a shame that it isn't open to the public at least at some part of the year because the pictures of that woodwork is something all should see.

These homes should be given to large family's, to grow up in peace joy and creativity

Alameda has some of the most amazing victorians. Theres even an area with "mini" Victorians. Walking those neighborhoods is beautiful

The downtown LA area of Bunker hill and fort Moore hills once had beautiful houses like these until the 1950's all leveled with the hill it's self for the freeway system and development. It be a crying shame to tear down these current survivors.

Thanks for the sensitive treatment of the Winchester Mystery House. The structure is clearly a marvel without the sensational and dubious tales of Sarah Winchester.👍

We are restoring a big 4-Square house completed in 1907. I love Queen Ann houses but due to all of the detailed wood work and roofing, they can cost a ghastly amount of money to renovate correctly. Great video!