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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Front Hall

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Chimneypiece

Coffered ceiling and top of Chimneypiece

Overmantel:

Detail from previous photo: corner of paneled frieze features strapwork pattern

Chimneypiece detail:

Chimneypiece detail:

Chimneypiece detail:
Bead-and-reel and acanthus leaf decorate the modillions supporting mantel

Detail from previous photo:

Parlor

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Chimneypiece

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

Plaster swag in frieze

Chimneypiece detail

Chimneypiece detail: Ionic columns with modified base

Chimneypiece detail: Fluted Ionic columns

Chimneypiece detail: iron fireback

Mosaic tiled hearth



Photos and their arrangement © 2004 Chuck LaChiusa
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