OF QUEEN ANNE DESIGN; Popularity of This Style of Building in This Country. UTILITY SACRIFICED TO ORNATENESS Hideous Structures the Result of the Desire to Build Something Expensive -- Description of a Reasonable Home.
Queen Anne will have much to answer for if she is held accountable for all of the architectural abominations that have been erected in her name. During the earlier days of this century, the major part of the dwellings were simple and plain, and could give but little direct offense to aesthetic taste, even if lacking in some of the prime requisites of beauty.
May 26, 1895
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