Queen Anne Houses

Queen Anne Houses

Unmuddling a Queen Anne

This hands-on couple have been reading OHJ since its newsletter days. Their forever project is an exemplary unmuddling that took them 22 years. Now the 1880s Queen Anne house is a showpiece in their New Jersey neighborhood.

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A Ravishing Queen Anne House

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.

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The Queen Anne: Victorian Architecture and Décor

The Queen Anne, a favorite of American house styles, features exterior ornament and complex color schemes.

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Exterior Paint Color Schemes

Help for one of the biggest decisions homeowners have to make: choosing paint colors for the outside of your house.

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Tale of Two Towers

“The house is a money-maker. I get it. A few fixes and she could shine again.” – Tina Kaasman

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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.

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An Exuberant Queen Anne in Michigan

A long journey took this restoration-committed owner deep into research—and on a hunt for antiques.

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Restoring a Victorian House in Cambridge

See the restoration of a Victorian house in Massachusetts.

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Restoring a Victorian, One Room at a Time

Follow the restoration a Victorian home.

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Revamping a Chicago Queen Anne

See how one Chicago Queen Anne got a fresh look.

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Reviving the Victorian Eitzen Mansion

See the restoration of the historic Eitzen Mansion in California, Missouri.

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A Queen Anne House Reborn

An 1899 Queen Anne house in Portland, Oregon, is restored after a fire.

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Authentic Gaslights in a Capitol Hill Victorian

The gaslights are still gaslit in this 1891 Queen Anne tower house in Washington, D.C.

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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.

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A Converted Queen Anne

A California couple enlisted their creative zeal—and a few of their friends—to doctor a decommissioned hospital.

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An Opulent Queen Anne

See the restoration of an opulent Queen Anne in Berwick, Pennsylvania.