The house shown above is at 15 Turkey Shore Rd. The hillside on which it sits had previously been an orchard and was divided into lots in the late 19th century with a commanding view of the Ipswich River. View the 1910 Ipswich map.
Queen Anne Free Classic houses of the late 19th and early 20th Century share the basic form of elaborate Queen Anne houses but without the excessive ornamentation of the Victorian era. Viewed from the front, this cohesive and appealing architectural style often featured wrap-around porches supported by classical columns. Gone were the conical towers, scrolling, gingerbread and other ostentatious Victorian elements drawn from varying periods of history, a mixed styling that traditionalists derided as degenerate.
In A Field Guide to American Houses, Virginia & Lee McAlester state, “About 35 percent of Queen Anne houses use classical columns, rather than delicate turned posts with spindlework detailing, as porch supports. These columns may be either the full height of the porch or raised on a pedestal to the level of the porch railing; the railings normally lack the delicate, turned balusters of the spindlework type of ueeen Anne house. Palladian windows, cornice-line dentils, and other classical details are frequent. This subtype became common after 1890 and has much in common with some early (asymmetrical) Colonial Revival houses.” Examples are shown on pages 276-277 in the 1984 first edition of the book.
Other Queen Anne Classic Houses in Ipswich
Further reading
Historic Ipswich 