From My Recent Road Trip ~ The Queen Anne style John E. Davis House in Butte, Montana was built in 1891 for $7,000. Davis was a grocery and hardware merchant in the booming copper mining town. His brother, president of a local bank started by their uncle, built mirror-image version of this house next door at the same time.
Like most Queen Anne style houses, it has a picturesque asymmetrical composition and variety of textures and ornamentation. Typical features of the style include projecting bays, bold chimneys, wrap-around porches, multi-pane window sash, and turned and scroll-cut ornament All these character-defining features are found on this house.
After the Civil War, technological advancements, including the development of balloon framing and steam mills to produce turned and sawn wood ornament, allowed the construction of houses with complex forms and elaborate detail at reasonable prices for middle-class buyers. The variety of forms and details that resulted from this make the style endlessly fascinating.
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