It seems I just now killed the previous thread. Bill--see architectural notes there. Queen Anne style about 1880 to 1910. Carpenter Gothic and Gothic Revival were earlier; the complicated trimmings were manufactured on a large scale and distributed by railway.
I picked up a couple of CD's of (evidently good) Chicago Blues last week and listened to them on the way too and from work this weekend, using the CD player in my car. Listening now to one of them with my low-end Grado headphones and relatively inexpensive tube headphone amp. What a difference! How I regret not discovering this fifty years ago...
Alan ~~ I actually posted a reply on the previous thread, even though it was an hour past deadline. And the dates are right. Our house dates from 1887.
Cat ~~ thanks for identifying that architectural feature I was talking about as a turretn.
The bed and breakfast where we stayed in London, Ontario last year was a Queen Anne, as were a lot of its neighbors. Instead of a tower/turret, it had a large round extension of the porch on the corner, with a balcony on the top. Not quite the same thing, but the allusion was clear and it worked well.
Howard Dean Primus inter nobis est!
ReplyDeleteIt seems I just now killed the previous thread. Bill--see architectural notes there. Queen Anne style about 1880 to 1910. Carpenter Gothic and Gothic Revival were earlier; the complicated trimmings were manufactured on a large scale and distributed by railway.
I picked up a couple of CD's of (evidently good) Chicago Blues last week and listened to them on the way too and from work this weekend, using the CD player in my car. Listening now to one of them with my low-end Grado headphones and relatively inexpensive tube headphone amp. What a difference! How I regret not discovering this fifty years ago...
--Alan
Alan ~~ I actually posted a reply on the previous thread, even though it was an hour past deadline. And the dates are right. Our house dates from 1887.
DeleteCat ~~ thanks for identifying that architectural feature I was talking about as a turretn.
The bed and breakfast where we stayed in London, Ontario last year was a Queen Anne, as were a lot of its neighbors. Instead of a tower/turret, it had a large round extension of the porch on the corner, with a balcony on the top. Not quite the same thing, but the allusion was clear and it worked well.
Delete--Alan
It was hot enough to melt a brass monkey here today! 90F after a week of 70's is just too hot!!!
ReplyDeleteAnything above 80F is unnecessary!!