AMERICAN QUEEN ANNE, 1874–1910
The vernacular English Queen Anne was met in this country by a tradition of wood-frame construction and the abundance of affordable, machine-turned and -sawn ornament. Queen Anne often is called “the first national style,” because pattern books, advertising, and railroads allowed them to be built from coast to coast.
he English Queen Anne movement was familiar to architects and builders in the U.S., through magazine articles. Interest in this more vernacular and nostalgic architecture led to the development of the Queen Anne,
