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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This cira-1900 Queen Anne house in Portland boasts a wide veranda, a tower, pocket doors and an abundance of original detailing. Take a look at how this couple restored this historic home using art wallpapers, vintage textiles, antique lighting fixtures and a variety of period-appropriate antique decor.
The Queen Anne, a favorite of American house styles, features exterior ornament and complex color schemes.
Help for one of the biggest decisions homeowners have to make: choosing paint colors for the outside of your house.
"The house is a money-maker. I get it. A few fixes and she could shine again." - Tina Kaasman
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.
A long journey took this restoration-committed owner deep into research—and on a hunt for antiques.
See the restoration of a Victorian house in Massachusetts.
See the restoration of the historic Eitzen Mansion in California, Missouri.
An 1899 Queen Anne house in Portland, Oregon, is restored after a fire.
The gaslights are still gaslit in this 1891 Queen Anne tower house in Washington, D.C.
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 California couple enlisted their creative zeal—and a few of their friends—to doctor a decommissioned hospital.
See the restoration of an opulent Queen Anne in Berwick, Pennsylvania.
Crown Point Cabinetry offers custom cabinets for period style kitchens, baths, offices, laundry rooms, home bars and more. Styles include Shaker, Arts & Crafts, Early American, Victorian and Transitional.
Allied Window offers a beautiful, affordable and invisible solution for your bent glass and shaped windows. Allied Window's specialty is creating insulating storm windows that disappear into your shaped openings - matching the shape exactly - from bent glass to odd shapes, sizes and thicknesses – disappearing into your window opening.
A showcase of unique and hard-to-find handcrafted furnishing and decor from Old House Journal's buying guides.
