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Queen Anne House America's Victorian Vernacular

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ISBN-10: 0810930854

ISBN-13: 9780810930858

Edition: 2006

Authors: Radek Kurzaj, Janet W. Foster

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Queen Anne_style houses are arguably the most charming and picturesque of all Victorians. In this first-ever book on the American Queen Anne style, noted preservationist Janet W. Foster presents a thoughtful recognition of these houses_ place in the history of American architecture. Built across the U.S. during the late 19th century (The Inn at Castle Hill in Newport, RI, is a popular example), features of Queen Anne homes include gabled roofs; corbelled chimneys; vertical windows; large porches; balconies; and cut-stone foundations. Foster explains distinguishing elements of the Queen Anne tradition as she examines 21 noted homes, many of them not open to the public and never before…    
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Abrams
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 3.388
Language: English

Introduction
Interiors
Summer Houses
Watts Sherman House, Newport, Rhode Island
Roosevelt House, Sagamore Hill, Long Island, New York
Edward Brooke House, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania
Castle Hill, Newport, Rhode Island
Charles Baldwin House, Newport, Rhode Island
Suburban Houses
Montrose Park, South Orange, New Jersey
351 Hartford Road
426 Centre Street
Prospect Street, Madison, New Jersey
Hemingway House, Oak Park, Illinois
Parker House, Oak Park, Illinois
William E. Conover House, Greenwich, Connecticut
Urban Houses
Haas-Lilienthal House, San Francisco, California
Beeson House, Chicago, Illinois
Rural Houses
John Lindale House, Magnolia, Delaware
Krabbenhoft Farmhouse, Sabin, Minnesota
Ovide Broussard House, Abbeville, Louisiana
Houses in Town
John Fahnstock House, Galesburg, Illinois
Elisa Michaels House, Galveston, Texas
Shelton-Mc Murphey-Johnson House, Eugene, Oregon
Milton J. Carson House, Eureka, California
Piatt House, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania
Bibliography of the Style
Notes
Acknowledgments
Photograph Credits
Features on an American Queen Anne-Style House
Index