tnchick has given us the term OLD-FASHIONED for Photo Hunters Saturday. Here's my contribution.
OLD-FASHIONED Victorian Queen Anne style house in my neighborhood.Some details about the style:
Steep roof
Complicated, asymmetrical shape
Front-facing gable
One-story porch that extends across one or two sides of the house
Round or square towers
Wall surfaces textured with decorative shingles, patterned masonry, or half-timbering
Ornamental spindles and brackets
Bay windows
About the Queen Anne style
Queen Anne became an architectural fashion in the 1880s and 1890s, when the industrial revolution brought new technologies. Builders began to use mass-produced pre-cut architectural trim to create fanciful and sometimes flamboyant houses.Not all Queen Anne houses are lavishly decorated, however. Some builders showed restraint in their use of embellishments. Still, the flashy "painted ladies" of San Francisco and the refined brownstones of Brooklyn share many of the same features.
This house has sat on this spot for as long as I've lived in the area which is quite a long time. It has been renovated but the basic style has been kept. On the right side, the second floor windows are stained glass.
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38 comments:
I like the round towers. Gives me a feeling of a castle :)Have a good weekend Mary!
Neat, old house... very cool. I think I could enjoy living in a place like that!
That's an interesting old house, and a great choice of subject for this week's theme. Have a lovely weekend!
That's the first thing I noticed, the assymetrical structure.
I would love to own a house like this!!! Oh what the walls could tell us, huh?
Mine is posted, I hope you can drop by. I love visitors. Happy weekend.
i wouldn't mind living in there. i love the round tower as well. if this will be up for lottery, you know where to find me. :)
Beautiful home!
beautiful house... so very cool
My mother would faint over that house. She ADORES old houses like that.
Have a great weekend!
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That is a beautiful house in the Queen Anne style. :) Lovely choice for this week's Hunt. :)
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That's a great old fashioned house! Beautiful. I also have posted my love/hate meme today under the photo hunt...
What abeautiful house that is! Nice entry this week;)
Stunning design! Thanks for posting the details of the architecture. Fantastic photohunt!
Wow old building indeed! great one you have here. Happy weekend!
Oooo, what a lovely home. I love that big porch!
Perfect choice for our theme this week!
This is an interesting and beautiful house. I love the towers!
Every once in a while just for fun, I pick up these books of house plans. The ones that seem to attract me most are the ones that have a porch with a house attached.
This is a beautiful example of those wonderful porches that become a gateway to the outside world.
oh I love those old style homes...it such a shame though that all to often buildings and homes such as that torn down because it is more cost effective to rebuild than to restore...losing part of our history and culture...great photo...and thank you for the history on the house...
That's a beautiful old house. Good choice for the theme.
I love Queen Anne houses, but I'll bet they are a LOT of expensive up-keep! I'm NOT a wood-worker, so never wanted to try to keep up with one of 'em!
Great post!
There are two near downtown here that are gorgeous. One painted a very tasteful hunter green with dark maroon trim, and the other was painted this summer: a BRIGHT orangey yellow! Ick!
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Beautiful building. I'd love to live in a house like that! Interesting and informative post, thank you :)
wow!very beautiful house. one can have a royalty living experience.
happy hunting!
To me it doesn't look old fashioned, I love old houses, lol !
I do love those painted ladies my brother used to live in one and loved it,
I love those houses with the turret rooms. Great photo for the theme. Have a good weekend Teach
Great take on the theme. That looks like the prefect home for me and mine =)
Happy weekend!
I love an old Victorian like this when it's well restored. My stepdad only talks about one regret in his life when he had the opportunity to buy and restore an old Victorian in Prescott AZ. He passed, someone else bought it and restored it, and now it is a protected historical landmark home.
I love the look of that house, Our 1880s terraced may be nice (but a bit small) but I love this one. Happy weekend
too bad they do not make them like that any more.
Love the front porch and the gable. The maintenance of that house could be big, especially for an old one. I'm guessing the inside is wonderful too and full of treasures.
Have a great weekend, Mary. :)
Btw, I visited the District 75. Looks like a very busy district. ;)
WOW! I have not seen such a house. We have lots of terrace houses here in my country.
what a beautiful home! I would love to live there!
what a beautiful home! I would love to live there!
Cool Shot! Good choice for old fashioned.
My old fashioned is here
http://mlizcochico.blogspot.com/2008/01/photo-hunt-old-fashioned.html
By the way, I have 2 awards for you at http://mlizcochico.blogspot.com/2008/01/forever-friends-award.html
Hope you like them. Happy Monday!
It's a beautiful old fashioned structure. Happy hunting.
My old fashioned is here
http://mlizcochico.com/?p=265
Lovely and very unique and familiar from my travels throughout the east coast of the US.
What a lovely old-fashioned house! I would love a peek inside.
It's a lovely house. Thanks for sharing the background behind it.
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