Queen Anne has come to be applied to any Victorian
house that cannot be otherwise classified. They are all unique-looking,
multistory houses, irregular in shape, with a variety of surface textures,
materials and colors.
Other Distinguishing Characteristics
Half timbering
Windows of various forms
Upper stories that project over the lower ones
Bay windows
Turrets
Big chimneys
History
First designed in England by Richard Norman Shaw,
Queen Anne was started here as a style by architect Henry Hobson Richardson in
the early 1870s.
