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Mr. Burrows will illustrate the Quuen Anne style in a lecture, slide show and a bus
tour of examples within Little Falls. Tickets are $12 for members and $15 for non-members.
Of all the Victorian house styles, Queen Anne is the most elaborate and the most
eccentric. The style is often called romantic and feminine, yet it is the product of a
most unromantic era -- the machine age.
Queen Anne became an architectural fashion in the 1880s and 1890s, when the industrial
revolution was building up  steam. North America
was caught up in the excitement of new technologies. Factory-made, precut architectural
parts were shuttled across the country on a rapidly expanding train network. Exuberant
builders combined these pieces to create innovative, and sometimes excessive, homes.
Queen Anne architecture takes on many shapes. Some Queen Anne houses are lavishly
decorated. Others are restrained in their embellishments. Yet the flashy "painted
ladies" of San Francisco and the refined brownstones of Brooklyn share many of the
same features. There is an element of surprise to the typical Queen Anne home. The roof is
steeply pitched and irregular. The overall shape of the house is asymmetrical.
Romantic and flamboyant, Queen Anne houses come in many sizes and shapes. From charming
cottages to towered mansions, the lecture and tour of Little Falls, NY will illustrate the
beauty and variety of Victorian Queen Anne architecture.
Taken from about.com.
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Tel: 315.823.0808
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