This thesis analyzes the Continental Alpine influences on American Victorian era architecture. The Late Victorian era, 1850 to 1901, and the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1887 to 1920, produced a string of reactionary events, which altered English and American culture, particularly evident in architecture and the arts. The Picturesque movement, a response to the Industrial Revolution dominated the nineteenth century, inspiring travel to continental Europe. English and American travelers, intrigued by the local, vernacular architecture, borrowed its rudimentary construction and infused it into the stylization of Victorian era architecture. This thesis examines and forms connections between the unique characteristics of Continental Alpine architecture, the inspired architects of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the circulating publications promoting the mountainous styles, and the Victorian era architecture of England, France, and America mimicking Continental Alpine architecture to ultimately prove that American Victorian era architecture had some of its origins in continental Alpine Europe.