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January 14, 2009
Janet W. Foster The Queen Anne House: America's Victorian Vernacular New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 240 pp.; 231 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780810930858)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.5

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There is much to appreciate in Janet W. Foster’s The Queen Anne House: America’s Victorian Vernacular. First among these is the broad focus in her celebration of American residential architecture of the third quarter of the nineteenth century, which encompasses buildings across the country in a variety of geographic and social circumstances. Foster’s celebration is amply documented in the high graphic quality of this publication, particularly in the many full-page color photographs by Radek Kurzaj...