Tale of Two Towers
"The house is a money-maker. I get it. A few fixes and she could shine again." - Tina Kaasman
Queen Anne Houses
English-derived and very popular from 1880 through the 1890s, this quintessential Victorian house is a period favorite. Robust but lighthearted exteriors, with their asymmetrical facades, towers, verandahs, and fancy-butt shingles, hint at the sweetly eclectic rooms inside.
It’s the most beloved of Victorian styles. Despite roots in the English “Queen Anne Movement”--a return to early, vernacular architecture--it is here a peculiarly American style in its mass-produced ornamentation (including “gingerbread”) and lavish use of wood.
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An Urban Garden in Massachusetts
How an avid gardener and her landscape designers reworked a streetside urban plot to create private “rooms” along with lawns and perennial beds—while honoring the scale of the big old house.
Exterior Paint Color Schemes
Help for one of the biggest decisions homeowners have to make: choosing paint colors for the outside of your house.
An Exuberant Queen Anne in Michigan
A long journey took this restoration-committed owner deep into research—and on a hunt for antiques.
Authentic Gaslights in a Capitol Hill Victorian
The gaslights are still gaslit in this 1891 Queen Anne tower house in Washington, D.C.
Design Motifs of the Aesthetic Movement
An untouched 1883 interior in Massachusetts offers up an encyclopedia of Aesthetic Movement ornament, much of it in the Anglo-Japanese or Orientalist taste.
A Converted Queen Anne
A California couple enlisted their creative zeal—and a few of their friends—to doctor a decommissioned hospital.
A Ravishing Victorian Home
Never has the interior of this Queen Anne looked so good, from its wallpapers to textiles.
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