Style Architecture
Robin Martin and Tori Dewees
The Queen Anne architectural style was popular during the reign of
Queen Victoria around the 1880s to 1900. This is not to be confused
with the architecture during the reign of Queen Anne. It is characterized
by elaborate and eccentric Victorian style houses. It takes on many shapes and is lavishly
decorated. They are generally asymmetrical in shape with a steeply
pitched roof.
Some other characteristics are bay windows, towers, turrets, wrapping porches (often on multiple stories), balconies, stained glass decoration, roof finials and crestings, walls carvings and/or inset panels of stone or terra-cotta, cantilevered upper stories, much decorative trim, patterned shingles, belt courses, elaborate brackets, bannisters spindles, and mixing sidings. |
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