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| | Queen Anne Style Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The Queen Anne style of British architecture in the 1870s was popularized by George Devey and the better-known Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912). |
 | | In the late 1850s, the name "Queen Anne" was in the air, ever since William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne had appeared (1852). |
 | | Recognizably "Queen Anne" details: interpenetrating roof planes with bold panelled brick chimneys, the embedded corner tower (rendered as an octagon) with its conical roof, the wrap-around porch, spindle detailing, the "panelled" sectioning of blank wall, crown detailing along the roof peaks, radiating spindle details at the gable peaks. |
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