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Queen Anne Revival

1. With this style, there is usually a partial or full width porch having some spindle work. The basic simple house is usually disguised by this massive surround , a gable, and sometimes but not always a tower.Originally these homes were painted in bright clear colours with contrasting trim.

2. The gable has a complete pediment at the gable and is sometimes delightfully fitted out with shaped shingles and other detail work. A Palladian window would be characteristic in this gable but here a rounded top window fills the bill.

3. The Queen Anne style home is also recognized by its steeply pitched roofs, originally covered with slate or tile. There are often bay windows with large double panes. Arched windows, doors and porch openings are standard.

These buildings have an irregular assymetrical look, front facing gables and patterned shingles called fish scales. Exposed masonry is often set in patterns and and the chimneys are massive and obvious.

The interpretations of this style in North America were very attractive to the needs of newly wealthy merchants and industrialists. Queen Anne predominates in towns which had their great surge of wealth and the end of the Victorian era. The original buildings in Britain were a partial product of the Arts and Crafts movement and houses like this were quite often the "cottages" of extremely wealthy people.

This one on Edgewater Street would be termed a Queen Anne Revival. Sir Christopher Wren built a brick building for Queen Anne in the 1660s, which juxtaposed white wooden trim against brickwork. This was nothing like the "revival" create by English architects Richard and Norman Shaw in 1780. It somehow managed to get translated into wooden houses here in North America. The essentially simple form of this building is well hidden by an encompassing veranda which has room to entertain a regiment. The ell is probably original, the dormers are not. The gable ends are where carpenters made their money since these featured fancy cut-shingles.

16 Orchard Street. Another Queen Anne Revival. Seen from the back yard. The earliest houses were build ad hoc, but all of these were created using plan books and hordes of skilled, if underpaid, labour. This one is a block distant from that seen at left. It is unoriginal in lacking that massive veranda but more original in having standard dormers. That side bay is very nearly a tower.

In Britain, the Shaw version of a Queen Anne substituted clay tiles for brickwork and these were reinterpreted in our country as shingles. . The interface between them became wood. The only other thing lacking here is Palladian windows under the peak. Shingle patterns became the rage at this time and they often differed widely in shape within the decorative bands. Replacement siding has destroyed some of this effect in this instance. This former home is now three apartments. All of these structures appear a bit overblown and grand, especially in country and small town settings.