Queen Anne homes dominated Victorian residential architecture from 1880 to 1910. In fact, this style is virtually synonymous with the phrase “Victorian house.” Typical characteristics of a Queen Anne home include projecting bay windows, wraparound porches, towers, turrets, balconies, elaborate banisters and spindles, stained glass, decorative trim, and patterned shingles.
On Sunday Dear and I walked around the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco to see these great Victorian Homes. We saw other styles of grand houses, also.
This yellow and green house are on Gough street. The Victorians on this block, all built in 1889, are particularly lovely. These are in the Queen Anne Style. I believe they refer to the yellow one being a Queen Anne-Eastlake style (marked by elaborate woodwork).
This was a smaller house tucked between two larger structures that just caught my eye.
This is the Spreckels Mansion. Romance novelist Danielle Steel’s home is one of the most extravagant in town – built in 1913 for Adolph Spreckels, heir to the sugar empire of German-American industrialist Claus Spreckels, who made his fortune refining California sugar beets and Hawaii sugarcane.
This is the home featured in the Robin William’s movie Mrs. Doubtfire.
I really enjoyed seeing this old church and all the people coming out of services.
This is the Haas-Lilienthal House built in 1886. The exciting thing about this house is that we stumbled upon it on their annual Christmas open house day. We met one of the Foundation workers out front who told us about the open house and invited us to come back when it started. I will be posting more about this great house and the indoor pictures I was able to take also.
Photobucket is holding all my photos from 2007 to 2015 hostage and has replaced them all with ugly black and grey boxes asking for a ransom to have them re-published. Such a frustrating bother.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Wonderful architecture. I really love the yellow one with all that amazing woodwork. Looking forward to more.
These are beautiful homes and exactly what I remember from visiying SF as a child.
Pacific Heights is a great neighborhood for walking. I don’t get up there very much, though.
This week, we have a very different view of SF from a recent walk around my neighborhood 🙂
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If I keep drooling over the keyboard here at work they’re gonna fine me!
I LOVE Queen Annes!! Now that I have a decent camera I may have to go and get some pics of my fav house that is under renevation. I’d love to rebuild me one in the middle of nowhere and surround it with beautiful bulb gardens and pastures.
aaahhh, one day I will….but that day isn’t anytime soon.
I absolutely LOVE that yellow house on Gough Street – I think the exterior accents are what did me in! 🙂
Love the church! These pictures bring back memories of conventions in SF!
Oh I would love to own one of these homes.So fantastic.
There is no place like San Francisco for these gorgous homes. I can’t remember the title but I’ve watched a movie several times with Melody Griffith and one of these homes, it was a scary movie. Maybe it was called Pacific Heights.
I loved seeing your pictures of SF. You are providing us with a fun and informative tour. What a delight!