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QUEEN ANNE

The house at 318 W. Main in Titusville displays all the complexity in massing and irregularity of plan associated with the well developed American vernacular Queen Anne.
 

	318 West Main Street, Titusville, Pennsylvania

A busy arrangement of gables and window bays are cantilevered out beyond the wall planes of the main volume.  Bracketed cornices transform the gable forms to pediments.  A decorative belt of wood shingles divides the first and second floor.  Another belt of wood shingles wraps around the tower.  The gable wall surfaces, too, are covered with shingles.  A decorative wood panel on the second floor tower wall is an American representation of the decorative plaster panels used by English architects.  Classical influences can be seen in the sunburst motif over the first floor bay, again in the similar fan shaped light in the left gable facing W. Main, and in the full width classical veranda.  The house was built by a druggist, Theodore Reuting, about 1894.  The yellow and white paint, a Colonial Revival color scheme, is appropriate for the time.

Sheffield in the latter nineteenth century was the location of a well developed tanning industry.  One tanner, George Horton, did particularly well and built a very large Queen Anne in 1889.
 

	Horton House in Sheffield, Pennsylvania

Reportedly, this house was designed by a Chicago architect who had built a house in Chicago much like this Horton House.  On a visit to Chicago, George saw the house and wanted one just like it.  The result is this very large two story with a two story attic.  The asymmetrical, irregular massing of this house is dominated by two story gabled dormers and a corner tower.  The dormer over the front facade is noticeably cantilevered.  The huge dormers are faced with half timbering and feature horizontal banks of windows, a very medieval English look.  Even courses of rough cut field stone cover the first floor walls and wood shingles cover the upper stories.  The choice of materials reflects the influence of the contemporaneous Shingle architecture, but the massing, plan and decorative detail of this house is all Queen Anne.  Poor George didn’t get to enjoy this house for very long; he passed away in 1893 at the age of forty-five.
The Kahle brothers were very successful oil producers and brokers in Oil City with oil interests in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas.  One of them, J. W. Kahle, Jr., built a Queen Anne in 1895 at 118 Moran Street.

The asymmetrical, complex massing and irregular plan of this house with its hip roof, dormers and tower are clearly Queen Anne.  In addition to showing ample horizontal and vertical stickwork, the walls are partly covered with belts of wood shingles and bullseye wood panels representative of terra-cotta decoration used by the English manor architects.  Turned posts and spindles reflecting the advances in wood working technology of the time are commonly seen on this house.