Queen Anne (1880 - 1895)

Architect Richard Norman Shaw refined and popularized this style which, in its usual forms, bears more relation to the cottages and castles of medieval folk tale than to anything ever countenanced by the stern Queen Anne.

Rejecting the classic ridgidities of symmetric force, the Queen Anne style was infinitely plastic, eclectic, amenable to alteration and addition, and therefore ultimately modern.  Towers, turrets, multiple projecting gables, bays, dormers and oriels, mark the style, along with an exuberant combination of forms, textures, materials and decorations.

[from A Field Guide to the Architecture and History of Allentown, page 44]

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