Queen Anne Mansurd Roof

The distinctive steep mansard roof is a distinguishing characteristic of second empire style historic house colors for some reason second empire style 1855 to 1885 became a popular choice for haunted houses in movies and tv including the tv home of the munsters.

Queen anne mansurd roof.

Following the philadelphia exposition of 1876 and publication of mail order architectural plan books the victorian queen anne style 1880 1910 spread across the country. Roofs often rather steeply pitched were as complex as the rest of the building with multiple intersecting gables and protected balconies bay windows and a tower or turret. You might for example have a queen anne house with a gabled main roof and a mansard roofed tower. And the queen anne turret on the other corner of the mane facade.

The mansard roof is also found atop richardson romanesque and beaux arts buildings and it is often used as an accent feature in queen anne or stick style houses where a gabled roof may be accompanied by a mansard roofed tower. It features tow pitches one a shallow pitch atop a steeper slope. A mansard roof in opposition to a salt box offers the utility of a full half room on the upper floor rather than an attic. In the same way many stick style houses have mansard roofs but they are not second empire because it is the stick style features that dominate the design.

Late 19 th century americans were enamored of all things french and they wanted to spend newly minted post civil war. A staple of queen anne victorian architecture these conical towers were topped with dunce cap roofs that are too steep to be walked on. The most common victorian styles are second empire queen anne and shingle. And have the iron trim as a mansard roof would have.