QUEEN ANNE STYLE 1885 - 1910
By the 1890s, the Italianate style was beginning to fall out of favor due to the popularity of another residential house design of the Picturesque movement known as the Queen Anne style. The Queen Anne style was the dominant urban building style of the 1890s and early 1900s. It was derived from English Medieval building forms and gained popularity through pattern books and the availability of cheap sawn lumber used for architectural ornamentation. Decorative architectural ornamentation was often applied to gable eaves and porches and is often referred to as Eastlake ornamentation. The Queen Anne style was built throughout the area in the 1890s and it is especially predominant along the 300 block of Overton Street, East Third Street, East Fourth Street and Lexington and Park Avenues.
Many of the best examples of the Queen Anne style are large asymmetrical plan structures with a wide variety of decorative detailing. Most are of masonry construction and use stone or fired clay known as terra cotta for embellishing windows or gables. Roofs were generally gable of metal standing seam or slate and foundations were of limestone blocks. Typical decorative elements are corner towers or turrets, rectangular windows with stone lintels and sills, arched windows with stained glass, and porches with milled columns and sawn wood panels, spindles and brackets.
Due to the narrowness of lots many residences built in the 1890s were built in front gable rectangular plans with asymmetry expressed in angled rear bays or bay windows. The "Newport Plan" house of the period was also an adaptation to the narrow lots with entrances confined to a side facade and embellished with a decorative porch. Many of the more "restrained" Queen Anne residences of the area still managed to concentrate extensive decoration of the main facade such as stained glass, decorative brick and stone patterns, wood shingles in the gable field, and eaves vergeboard. Some homes from this period also display the influence of the Second Empire style which featured mansard roofs of slate laid in decorative patterns on the main facade.
Queen Anne/Shingle Style residence at 315 E. Third Street
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