Colorful Queen Anne Revival Houses, Vermont Postcard

"Colorful Queen Anne Revival Houses in Vermont" by Catherine Sherman A quaint residential street in Lyndonville, Vermont, is lined with colorful houses boasting well-manicured lawns under a blue sky dotted with wispy clouds. A striking yellow house with white trim commands attention at the front, while the changing leaves of the trees and shrubs reveal their autumn foliage. These brightly hued Queen Anne Revival Houses face Bandstand Park on Lyndonville's town common. In the New World, Queen Anne Revival was a historicist architectural style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was popular in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries. These architecturally significant 19th Century homes, sometimes known as the Painted Ladies, add to the charm of Bandstand Park, which features a bandstand, sculptured fountain and grass lawns. Man of these houses were designed by Lambert Packard and built during the last half of the 19th century. Some of the houses surrounding the park were built by railroad officers. The village of Lyndonville, incorporated in 1880, is located within the Town of Lyndon, which was founded in 1780. Lyndon is in Vermont's beautiful rural "Northeast Kingdom" in Caledonia County. The town is six square miles of rolling green hills and valleys on both sides of the Passumpsic River. According to Wikipedia, distinctive features of the American Queen Anne style may include: asymmetrical façade dominant front-facing gable, often cantilevered beyond the plane of the wall below overhanging eaves. round, square, or polygonal towers shaped and Dutch gables a porch covering part or all of the front façade, 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, terra cotta tiles, relief panels, or wooden shingles over brickwork, etc. dentils classical columns spindle work oriel and bay windows horizontal bands of leaded windows monumental chimneys painted balustrades wooden or slate roofs front gardens with wooden fences