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Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
Queen Anne Victorians
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700 block of Steiner Street, San Francisco, CA

In the United States, Queen Anne-style architecture was popular from roughly 1880 to 1910. Queen Anne was one of a number of popular architectural styles to emerge during the Victorian era. Within the Victorian era timeline, Queen Anne style followed the Stick style and preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle styles. The style bears almost no relationship to the English Baroque architecture produced in the actual reign of Queen Anne from 1702 to 1714. It describes a wide range of picturesque buildings with free Renaissance details rather than of a specific formulaic style in its own right. Queen Anne, as an alternative both to the French-derived Second Empire and the less domestic Beaux-Arts architecture, is broadly applied to architecture, furniture and decorative arts of the period 1880 to 1910; some Queen Anne architectural elements, such as the wraparound front porch, continued to be found into the 1920s.
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