Second Empire Victorian – House by the Railroad
Resplendent in its decay, this suppurating ode to a gilt era can now come to your city, town, or wayside. It’s a four-story mansion built in the Second Empire style popular in the late 1800s.
She is, of course, inspired directly by Ed Hopper’s famous painting House by the Railroad[www.moma.org], painted in 1925 when the house was already old and decrepit. He was probably inspired by a a house built near Syracuse, NY in the 1880s or 1890s. However, I’ve seen similar stock everywhere from Atlanta to Arizona.
It’s….not exactly light triangle-wise (eaves, cornices, and windows, friends!), but does share the same texture as my Queen Anne houses from the same era. They fit in any North American city and really class up a place.
Description
She’s a relatively compact manse that fits all her nobility into a tight 2×4 square. Chimneys are part of the asset, but the vents are vanilla assets and may be removed. It’s symmetrical and could fit anywhere on the block. Or, on the other side of the tracks. As it were.
Hopper’s painting inspired ubiquitous use of Second Empire style mansions as horror movie haunts. Everything from scary-ansion gestalt from Norman’s residence in Psycho[www.slashfilm.com] to Nintendo’s Haunted House[www.nintendo.com] owe their inspiration to this archetype. A Rose for Emily[www.commonlit.org] could well have taken place here. Even Tyler Durden’s Paper Street headquarters[designmcr.com] implied a sort of isolation-pumped insanity in the dregs of such a domicile. And, as BlueJayRage points out, the Munster & the Addams families existed in such spaces. Say what you will about Hopper’s simple style, he sure did imbue an indelible mark on the collective fear of the old. And what was his deal with women, anyway?
The siding is recolorable.
Dependencies
None. Just vanilla decor on the roof.
Specs
1x
Filenames: house_by_the_railroad_01
Level 1 (3? idk) Residential
Tilesize: 4×4
Build Time: 0
Build Cost: 0
Color Variations: 4 ea (ground floor mapped to change colors; unlock more colors with Painter Mod or Procedural Objects)
Main Models Tricount: ~25k
LOD Models Tricount: ~250
Main Models Textures: 1024×1024 (texture sharing enabled with Loading Screen Mod)
LOD Models Textures: 128×128
Alpha mapped, Normal mapped, Specular mapped, Illumination mapped, Color mapped, LOD mapped (texture, illumination, color)
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I seek to shun, not hate mankind;
My breast requires the sullen glen,
Whose gloom may suit a darken’d mind.
