Key Distinguishing Characteristics
Queen Anne has come to be applied to any Victorian house that cannot be otherwise classified. They are all unique-looking, multistory houses, irregular in shape, with a variety of surface textures, materials and colors.

Other Distinguishing Characteristics

• Half timbering
• Windows of various forms
• Upper stories that project over the lower ones
• Bay windows
• Turrets
• Big chimneys

History
First designed in England by Richard Norman Shaw, Queen Anne was started here as a style by architect Henry Hobson Richardson in the early 1870s.