What is the Queen Anne Victorian Architectural Style?

hey guys brent hold build show looking at the victorian style today now this is all part of our architectural series where we're looking at architectural styles of houses right we looked at georgian colony revival arts and crafts now we're looking at victorian now this is a queen anne victorian right what is it why is it a queen anne style house why is it victorian right so we're going to look at that we're going to study that we're going to have a good time we're going to learn a lot so come on join me [Music] 1899 that's where we are this is the uh bald mcfarland house edelman mcfarland house it is owned by historic fort worth right this is victorian okay now it's called victorian because queen victoria was on the throne until 1901 in england but we call still the victorian period in america you're really 1860 to 1900 is considered victorian but this is a queen and victorian okay so this is a later period in the victorian era and it's this mix of materials and all the different parts and pieces on this house that make it kind of queen in that define it that way this wrap around porch is a classic queen and detail but if you look at the outside you've got copper on the roof we've got this sandstone we've got marble on the porch we've got brick we've got all these different parts and pieces now this is what some people when the queen the victorian period seems over the top it's things like this right that are there's just so much going on right the the the dormers on the outside the uh the pitches of the roof all the ornamentation right all the carvings and details all make this really you know over the top and victorian now the reason they did this the reason they built this way is because they could right and we're able to do things like these formed copper and this the the cresting at the top of the roof and the finials and all those different things are made by hand with machines okay not just purely by hand but machines make it much more easy now this house is pretty interesting this used to be called quality hill okay this was the finest part of fort worth in fact mrs ball when she moved here encouraged her doctor to come and their doctor actually lived next door and so this too is a queen anne style house you'll notice though it doesn't have quite the same quality of materials that the ball mcfarland house does so two great houses we're sitting right on the edge of a bluff that looks out over the deal there's a great breeze here right there's a river that runs through fort worth we're on the bluff of that river great breezes this is where all the rich people would have lived so we're looking at a victorian house that's actually really high style okay so a lot of these materials are not typical right the the quality of products that they put inside as you'll see are over the top but we're talking about a a house that is late industrial period that helps define right all the different things that are going on here and so when we go inside you're going to be blown away by the millwork because well it's just an explosion so come on inside we'll check it out [Music] okay guys i just wanted to stop on the front porch now as i said the queen anne style this wrap around porch that we've got here is kind of typical of that style but we're also talking quality hill right this is one of the nicest areas of fort worth at the time 1899. we're beginning to see a little bit of the technology that was taking place remember this is really early lighting okay this is uh you know pre-air conditioning right and so we're gonna see some things one most the windows have screens on them right they also have shutters and these operable shutters this was an operable shutter that actually cranked that allowed the shutters to open and close one of the things i love is is the quality of materials they put in here these are these are all turned sandstone right you got this uh rusticated standstone block which is really beautiful notice how they wrap the copper around the beam on the outside right beautiful detail and look at this here so the draining on this thing is this little drain that comes off here that has a drain that the back end so the porch pitches this way it goes into that drain it comes off because water can't get over this thing they had to create a trough a little gutter inside this system that helped build this thing right this is a well-built well-designed house and i talked about the the quality and different number of materials right got this sandstone we've got brick got marble right all these great materials i'm gonna take you inside get ready because it's pretty awesome okay guys we're inside the uh explosion of moldings and millwork here right um we're again 1899 right so there's a lot of industrialization that's taking place here but remember too this is pre-air conditioning one of the things that's pretty cool is this little contraption here remember on the outside we had that screen um on the inside they would have these uh transom bars right that would move up and down that would allow air to move in and out of here right where in the south you really want those windows to work with the upper and lower sash open and close so you can get some convection air in here the other thing that's interesting is that you would think that in 1899 you would have this wood burning fireplace and everything else but fire was a big hazard at the time in cities all across the country so has this fireplace really notice that there's no wood there right it's all pressed and molded brick right which would have been pretty typical for that period right because uh by this time and in all the fireplaces you're going to see in this house you're going to see a bunch of tile surfaces woods way on the outside because fire was a big big problem now when you see millwork like this with all this detail with all this carving the brackets the beading all this stuff you know how did the craftsman do it how did he build it here right well he didn't okay this would have all come from a mill this would all come from a molding catalog or a millwork catalog that they would have ordered from now the the cool thing is is that this is all oak in here okay now the reason you see oak and hardwoods like that after the industrial revolution is because we could right you can't do this kind of mill work right without incredible expense pre-industrial okay because it was too hard to work all this wood too expensive so the fact that we have power molders power shapers power machines like this enable this right look you've got a coffered ceiling in here you've got oak here and you've got maple in here right one of the hallmarks of really nice houses is that they oftentimes will switch woods between rooms one of the other houses we'll look at thistle hill has an oak room a bird's eye maple room right a mahogany room they have all these different wood choices right it was at that time it was it was it was a way to kind of show off what they were doing what was going on the lighting is kind of funky right this is 1899 so lighting would have been right in the edge upstairs we're going to see a gasoline okay gasoline is basically a light fixture that was wired for electrical and gas okay they didn't really trust electrical at the time if you can believe that crazy because the gasoline is basically an open flame so then we come into this formal room again notice the the the area outside the fireplace no open logs right no no open embers this would have all been uh gas-fired coal-fired things kind of thin that were inserts inside of fireplaces again because fire was such a big problem but again explosion and mill work right all these different cool moldings and details and if you look at built-ins like this and if we come into the dining room and look at built-ins like this this this comes right out of the molding catalogs okay so this is a something that would have been ordered as furniture almost we've got two corner cabinets one on either side beautiful dining room again tile around the insert and the fireplace coffered ceilings all really high style now it's also 1899 where there's a lot of class differences a lot of a lot of uh you know upstairs downstairs back stairs front stairs right notice what happened what's happening right here we're going into a paint grate area there okay so this is the dividing line where you would have uh you know this is where the family would live this is where the help would live you've got oak floors here you've got pine floors there you got paint graded wood here you got stain grade wood here it's right so we're going to see that upstairs as well this kind of separation between the help and the family then finally look at these floors these were called wood carpets in the molding catalogs right these were something that again was been ordered out of the mill it's not some something someone would have laid up on site it had been made in the mill it was actually like a carpet that would actually could have been rolled out so they would have ordered this thing cut it to fit it in place and we've got these beautiful inlaid floors all around this house let's go upstairs and show you the bedrooms i'm going to show you the third floor where the help would have lived it's really a fun thing so we're now on the second floor right this is when where the family would have lived these were you'll notice the quality of the materials is still pretty high we're still looking at a lot of oak we're still got the beautiful details around these doors i talked earlier about the gasoline right this would have been what's called a gasoline light you have electrical one side but this arm going up and this knob right here is something you would determine to get the gas on crazy concept that you would have this open flame um just burning away but it was just that period of time right before before electrical really proved itself but these are all bedrooms there are offices now for a store at fort worth but they were they were would have been bedrooms at the time you'll see fireplaces in each room and again we we noticed the uh backstairs front stairs kind of thing where this door as it would have closed right uh would have separated the help from the family and we go to pine floors here we go to this back stair here that goes up to the to their living quarters and paint great cabinets right and so uh still beautifully made you know wonderful in you know modern comparison but um in 1899 this is where the help would have lived right because now we're on that back stair this goes down to the kitchen goes down to the basement the help actually lived in the basement and then help would have lived upstairs so take you upstairs and show you how different things are versus the way they lived here [Music] [Applause] [Music] so i love coming into an attic space like this because to me uh these spaces oftentimes have never been remodeled right they've never the colors often times don't change and you're really seeing a very original space okay so you know notice that this five panel door which is a typical victorian door but this would be more typical of you know what you'd see in kind of a common working man's house right the doors downstairs have all that molding around it and the beading and all the extra detail this is a little bit more typical right to what you would see not on quality hill i also love it because i get to see shutters and screens and other things like these are screen doors here these are the shutters i talked about on the outside of the house all perfectly stored perfectly you know ready to go back on it's hopefully going to be a project that we're going to uh take on one of these days gasoline again again this one would have had a glass canopy here but this is where that would have turned on again everything's simplified here right this would have been where the help slept right you're looking at these dormers openings and stuff where we're lighting and even this right one this kind of indicates how things would have been made in a mill but we've also got probably a mantle right that was taken out at some point where did it get taken out all of a sudden we start sleuthing and trying to figure out you know how this house is put together what changed over time because this house is a very original house so much of it is still it was in the original family and didn't really change for so long before store fort worth inherited it that it's really kind of an architectural gem and it's a great example for us to look at what victorian looked like what high style queen anne looked like in this [Music] period okay so coming out the help door right that's that's where i belong this is uh coming out the kitchen this would have been a stare down for the caretaker down here you see the bluff and it's overgrown now but this is the original retaining wall this is the original driveway that would have gone to a garage that's no longer there you see the other house in the background but this is you know quality hill in fort worth this is the victorian era this is 1899 right this is a great example of a high style victorian house right where you see this explosion of millwork all this asymmetry and the wraparound porch great high style house which has been preserved wonderfully by a store fort worth but this is a great house this is victorian this is queen anne i'm brent hall thanks for watching

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Length: 13min 27sec (807 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 15 2020