page_title: Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Queen Anne style architecture in the United States / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Row houses located at (from right to left) 1861&#8211;1869 California Street, N.W., in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built in 1904, the Queen Anne-style homes are designated as contributing properties to the Washington Heights Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
context_page_description: In the United States, Queen Anne style architecture was popular from roughly 1880 to 1910. The Queen Anne style was one of a number of popular architectural styles to emerge during this era. The Queen Anne style followed the Eastlake style and preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle styles.
  The style bears almost no relationship to the original Queen Anne style architecture in Britain which appeared during the time of Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714. The American style covers a wide range of picturesque buildings with "free Renaissance" details, rather than being a specific formulaic style in its own right.
  The term "Queen Anne", as an alternative both to the French-derived Second Empire style and the less "domestic" Beaux-Arts style, is broadly applied to architecture, furniture and decorative arts of the period from 1880 to 1910. Some Queen Anne architectural elements, such as the wrap-around front porch, continued to be found into the 1920s.
context_section_description: Queen Anne style buildings in the United States came into vogue during the 1880s, replacing the French-derived Second Empire as the 'style of the moment'. The popularity of high Queen Anne style waned in the early 1900s, but some elements continued to be found on buildings into the 1920s, such as the wrap-around front porch (often L-shaped).
  Distinctive features of the American Queen Anne style may include:
  asymmetrical façade
  dominant front-facing gable, often cantilevered beyond the plane of the wall below
  overhanging eaves
  round, square, or polygonal towers
  shaped and Dutch gables
  a porch covering part or all of the front facade, including the primary entrance area
  a second-story porch or balconies
  pedimented porches
  differing wall textures, such as patterned wood shingles shaped into varying designs, including resembling fish scales, terra cotta tiles, relief panels, or wooden shingles over brickwork, etc.
  dentils
  classical columns
  spindle work
  oriel and bay windows
  horizontal bands of leaded windows
  monumental chimneys
  painted balustrades
  wooden or slate roofs
  front gardens with wooden fences
caption: Queen Anne style rowhouses in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
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