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Pl annin g a Preservation Project
q u e e n a n n e ( 18 8 0 – 1910 )
Queen Anne was a popular residential building style in the
3 1 United States between 1880 and 1910. The name of the style is
misleading. It actually draws most heavily upon earlier Jacobean
and Elizabethan precedents rather than the more restrained
6 4 Renaissance architecture of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714).
English architect Richard Norman Shaw is most often credited
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for developing the style in his designs for grand manor houses
during the mid-nineteenth century. The first American example is
600 W Jefferson Street, a generally considered to be the Watts-Sherman House in Newport.
contributing structure in the
West End Historic District and an Identifying features of the Queen Anne style include:
example of the Queen Anne style. 1. Steeply pitched roof of irregular shape, usually with a
dominant front-facing gable
2. Patterned shingles, cutaway bay windows, and other devices
used to avoid a smooth-walled appearance
3. Decorative truss work and patterned shingles in the roof
gables
4. Veranda porches with spindlework or decorative brackets
between turned porch roof supports
5. Irregularly shaped floor plan
6. Asymmetrical façade with partial or full-width porch which is
usually one story high and extended along one or both sides
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417 West Jefferson Street, a contributing structure in the West End
Historic District and an example of the Queen Anne style.
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