Queen Anne Style Architecture

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About Queen Anne Style Architecture

All buildings, from public to housing that contain the essential elements to what is a Queen Anne style building. I know Queen Anne is different in the UK and slightly so in Australia, but in the US :

Distinctive essential features of American Queen Anne style included an asymmetrical facade; dominant front-facing gable, often cantilevered out beyond the plane of the wall below; overhanging eaves; round, square, or polygonal tower(s); shaped and Dutch gables; a porch covering part or all of the front facade, including the primary entrance area; a second-story porch or balconies; pedimented porches; differing wall textures, such as patterned wood shingles shaped into varying designs, including resembling fish scales, or terra cotta tiles or relief panels, wooden shingles over brickwork, etc; dentils; classical columns; spindle work; oriel and bay windows; horizontal bands of leaded windows; monumental chimneys; white painted balustrades; and slate roofs. Basements were abolished, and front gardens had wooden fences rather than iron railings of the preceding Second Empire style.