Queen Anne style - Interiors...............Queen Anne style - Table of Contents
Queen Anne Front Hall and Parlor
Buffalo, NY
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The "front hall" might be six to eight feet wide, and twelve to twenty feet long, or considerably longer if it ran the length of the house. Most front halls before 1900 included a staircase to the second story.
The showplace "parlor" was sometimes called "the first parlor," "the sitting room," "the front parlor," or "the front room."
A chimneypiece (or "mantelpiece") is a fireplace surround and its overmantel.
The "overmantel" is the space above a mantelshelf, or the front of a chimney breast. In the overmantel, a decorative panel often incorporates a mirror or painting.
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Coffered ceiling and top of Chimneypiece |
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Detail from previous photo: corner of paneled frieze features strapwork pattern |
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Chimneypiece detail:
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Parlor |
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Detail from previous photo: plaster swags and putto (Cupidlike child much used in decorative painting and sculpture) in frieze |
Detail from previous photo: plaster swags and putto (Cupidlike child much used in decorative painting and sculpture) in frieze |
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Chimneypiece detail |
Chimneypiece detail: Ionic columns with modified base |
Chimneypiece detail: iron fireback |
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Mosaic tiled hearth |