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25-457: Built in 1895–96, Copshaholm is a 38-room Romanesque Queen Anne house designed by New York architect Charles Alonzo Rich . The furnishings on all three floors are original, giving visitors a glimpse of how the mansion appeared during the 72 years the Oliver family had occupancy. Oak, cherry and mahogany woodwork are found throughout Copshaholm. Leaded glass windows and 14 unique fireplaces add to

50-631: A family of successful Edinburgh lawyers. William Shaw died 2 years after his son's birth, leaving debts. Two of Shaw's siblings died young and a third in early adulthood. The family lived first in Annandale Street and then Haddington Place. Richard was educated at an academy for languages, located at 3 and 5 Hill Street Edinburgh until c.1842, then had one year of formal schooling in Newcastle, followed by being taught by his sister Janet. The eldest surviving child Robert had moved to London to work;

75-429: A weathered look on a new building, even had the cedar shakes dipped in buttermilk, dried, and then installed, to leave a grayish tinge to the façade. The shingle-style also conveyed a sense of the house as continuous volume. This effect—of the building as an envelope of space, rather than a great mass, was enhanced by the visual tautness of the flat shingled surfaces, the horizontal shape of many shingle-style houses, and

100-767: Is an example, built in 1904 in rural Nashville, Georgia . Characteristics of the Queen Anne cottage style are: The Shingle style in America was made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style . In the Shingle style, English influence was combined with the renewed interest in Colonial American architecture which followed

125-947: Is largely confined to the treatment of picturesquely disposed windows, with small-paned upper sashes and plate glass lower ones. Triple windows of a Serlian motif and a two-story oriel window that projects asymmetrically were frequently featured. The most famous American Queen Anne residence is the Carson Mansion in Eureka, California . Newsom and Newsom were notable builder-architects of 19th-century California homes and public buildings, and they designed and constructed (1884–1886) this 18-room home for William Carson, one of California's first lumber barons . After 1885, use of Eastlake -style trim shifted to "free classic" or Colonial Revival trim, including pedimented entryways and Palladian windows . Smaller and somewhat plainer houses can also be Queen Anne. The William G. Harrison House

150-619: Is sometimes grouped as New World Queen Anne Revival architecture . Popular there during this time, it followed the Second Empire and Stick styles and preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle styles. Sub-movements of Queen Anne include the Eastlake movement . The style bears almost no relationship to the original Queen Anne style architecture in Britain (a toned-down version of English Baroque that

175-566: The 'style of the moment'. The popularity of high Queen Anne style waned in the early 1900s, but some elements continued to be found on buildings into the 1920s, such as the wrap-around front porch (often L-shaped). Distinctive features of the American Queen Anne style may include: The British 19th-century Queen Anne style that had been formulated there by Norman Shaw and other architects arrived in New York City with

200-529: The 1876 celebration of the United States Centennial. Architects emulated colonial houses' plain, shingled surfaces as well as their massing, whether in the simple gable of McKim, Mead and White 's Low House or in the complex massing of Kragsyde , which looked almost as if a colonial house had been fancifully expanded over many years. This impression of the passage of time was enhanced by the use of shingles. Some architects, in order to attain

225-500: The 1892 collection of essays, Architecture, a profession or an Art? . He firmly believed it was an art. In later years, Shaw moved to a heavier classical style which influenced the emerging Edwardian Classicism of the early 20th century. Shaw died in London, where he had designed residential buildings in areas such as Pont Street , and public buildings such as New Scotland Yard . Shaw's early country houses avoided Neo-Gothic and

250-578: The French-derived Second Empire style and the less "domestic" Beaux-Arts style , is broadly applied to architecture, furniture and decorative arts of the period from 1880 to 1910. Some Queen Anne architectural elements, such as the wrap-around front porch, continued to be found into the 1920s. Queen Anne style buildings in the United States came into vogue during the 1880s, replacing the French-derived Second Empire as

275-544: The Royal Academy, with whom he briefly partnered in some architectural designs. During 1854–1856, Shaw travelled with a Royal Academy scholarship, collecting sketches that were published as Architectural Sketches from the Continent , 1858. On his return to London he moved to George Edmund Street 's practice. In 1863, after sixteen years of training, Shaw opened a practice for a short time with Nesfield. In 1872, he

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300-480: The academic styles, reviving vernacular materials like half timber and hanging tiles, with projecting gables and tall massive chimneys with " inglenooks " for warm seating. Shaw's houses soon attracted the misnomer the " Queen Anne style ". As his skills developed, he dropped some of the mannered detailing, his buildings gained in dignity, and acquired an air of serenity and a quiet homely charm which were less conspicuous in his earlier works; half timber construction

325-423: The attic are sheathed in tile. The roof is a simple ridge with gable ends and a tower on the northeast corner. On the back is a projecting gable with dormer windows The music room and den are separate one story projections. The house was originally wired for electricity and piped for gas. The gas has been removed, but several of the gas jets remain in place. The original water system consisted of two wells. The water

350-399: The beauty of the house. The furnishings include porcelains, glass, silver, prints, and bronzes, including some by Bartolozzi and Lorado Taft. The furniture is all original and display beautiful antiques. Surrounding Copshaholm are 2.5 acres (10,000 m) of landscaped gardens, including a garden tea house, formal Italianate garden, rose garden, pergola, tennis lawn, and fountain. The house

375-440: The emphasis on horizontal continuity, both in exterior details and in the flow of spaces within the houses. McKim, Mead and White and Peabody and Stearns were two of the notable firms of the era that helped to popularize the shingle style, through their large-scale commissions for "seaside cottages" of the rich and the well-to-do in such places as Newport, Rhode Island. However, the most famous Shingle-style house built in America

400-898: The new housing for the New York House and School of Industry at 120 West 16th Street (designed by Sidney V. Stratton , 1878). The Astral Apartments that were built in Brooklyn in 1885–1886 (to house workers) are an example of red-brick and terracotta Queen Anne architecture in New York. E. Francis Baldwin 's stations for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are also familiar examples of the style, built variously of brick and wood. Gabled and domestically scaled, these early American Queen Anne homes were built of warm, soft brick enclosing square terracotta panels, with an arched side passage leading to an inner court and back house. Their detailing

425-579: The rest of the family followed about 1846, living in Middleton Road, Dalston . Richard began his apprenticeship almost immediately at an unknown architect's practice. By 1849, he had transferred to the London office of sixty-year-old William Burn , at whose practice Shaw remained for five years. He attended the evening lectures on architecture given at the Royal Academy of Arts by Charles Robert Cockerell . He met William Eden Nesfield at

450-626: Was "Kragsyde" (1882), the summer home commissioned by Bostonian G. Nixon Black, from Peabody and Stearns. Kragsyde was built atop the rocky coastal shore near Manchester-By-the-Sea, Massachusetts , and embodied every possible tenet of the shingle style. Many of the concepts of the Shingle style were adopted by Gustav Stickley , and adapted to the American version of the Arts and Crafts Movement . Norman Shaw Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), also known as Norman Shaw ,

475-498: Was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the greatest of British architects; his influence on architectural style was strongest in the 1880s and 1890s. Shaw was born 7 May 1831 in Edinburgh, the sixth and last child of William Shaw (1780–1833), an Irish Protestant and army officer, and Elizabeth née Brown (1785–1883), from

500-431: Was designed by Lamb and Rich (1882-1903) of New York City. It is a Queen Anne style with substantial Romanesque features. The pergola and Italian sunken garden were designed by Alice E. Neale of New York City. The House is three floor with an attic. The basement and first two levels are Indiana fieldstone granite, culled from the countryside of St. Joseph County . The porch pillars are Vermont stone. The third floor and

525-444: Was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy . Shaw worked for, among others, the artists John Callcott Horsley and George Henry Boughton , and the industrialist Lord Armstrong . He designed large houses such as Cragside , Grim's Dyke , and Chigwell Hall , as well as a series of commercial buildings using a wide range of styles. Shaw was elected to the Royal Academy in 1877, and co-edited (with Sir Thomas Jackson RA )

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550-679: Was gifted at drawing and Shaw's career is assumed to have been an influence in Cecil Wood becoming an architect. In later life he lived at 6 Ellerdale Road, Hampstead, London. He died in London and is buried in St John-at-Hampstead Churchyard, Hampstead , London. One of Shaw's major commissions was the planning and designing of buildings for Bedford Park, London. Shaw was commissioned in 1877 by Jonathan T. Carr though his involvement only lasted until 1879. He designed St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park , as

575-830: Was more sparingly used, and finally disappeared entirely. On 16 July 1867, Shaw married Agnes Haswell Wood at the parish church in Hampstead . She was the daughter of James Wood and was born in New South Wales , and most of the Wood siblings were sent to England for part of their education. All the children but Agnes returned to New South Wales and from there, most of the family moved to Christchurch in New Zealand. Agnes lived with an aunt in England and in 1866, she became engaged to Shaw. Her nephew, Cecil Wood (1878–1947),

600-488: Was pumped to a holding tank in the attic and the gravity lines serviced all the baths, kitchen, and laundry. This system is still used today, using in holding tanks. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910. It

625-430: Was used mostly for gentry houses) which appeared during the time of Queen Anne , who reigned from 1702 to 1714, nor of Queen Anne Revival (which appeared in the latter 19th century there). The American style covers a wide range of picturesque buildings with "free Renaissance" (non- Gothic Revival ) details, rather than being a specific formulaic style in its own right. The term "Queen Anne", as an alternative both to

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