THE QUEEN ANNE STYLE
Introduced from England at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Queen Anne style spread quickly to become one of the most common house styles in America. The following features are common to the style: decorated eaves and porches, gables, towers and turrets, bay windows (angled and square), stained glass and a variety of surface textures including shaped shingles.

A one-story redwood framed Queen Anne cottage, rectangular in plan. The gable head of the front bay is enlivened by drop pendants at the corners of the pediment which contains fish scale shingles.

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THE CRAFTSMAN STYLE
The Craftsman/Bungalow style of architecture which comes from a variety of sources including the English Arts and Crafts Movement, oriental wooden architecture, the California adobe dwellings, Swiss chalets, barn forms and log cabin structures. Both forms answered a recognized need for simpler residences, especially for the working classes. Building features included low pitched gabled roofs, exposed rafters, large porches supported by square or elephantine columns and river rock or clinkerbrick foundations.

The typical California Bungalow was usually sheathed in stucco as is this example. Note the double front facing gable, enclosed open porch and exposed rafters.

This two story redwood framed building includes horizontal drop siding, a belt course of shingles between stories, central windows in all bays and art or stained glass in upper window lights. This home was the residence of Horace W. Austin, longtime Salinas pharmacist.

THE ITALIANATE STYLE
Inspired by vernacular farmhouse designs from the Italian countryside, the Italianate style appeared in America through early architectural pattern books first as the Italian Villa, then the Italianate. Common elements include shallow roofs, hipped or gabled with large brackets under the eaves, and windows sometimes arched and often paired. This house is a bracketed example of the style which may have had its original porch posts replaced in a recent rehabilitation. A building not dissimilar to this appears in the 1875 Britton & Rey Birds Eye View map of Salinas.

A particularly nice example of the Bungalow form in a complex corner arrangement with twin entrys on Lincoln Street and Central Avenue. The intersecting clipped gable roof is the principal vehicle of expression.

This house has a combination of both hipped and gabled facing gable above the porch area and a smaller gable rests on the roofline. Each gable contains decorative garlands.

This house is basically Queen Anne in style as seen by interesting variation in the design of its neighbor at 106 Central contractor or its design taken from a pattern book.

An example of the Spanish Revival style that began to appear in Victorian residential neighborhoods in the 1920s, evidencing evolution. Note gable covered in Spanish tile and enclosed pe extends out from the west edge of the facade.

Birthplace of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American nor remained a resident until age 19. Queen Anne elements include windows, ornamental iron cresting on the roof, and decoration.

This house was originally constructed in 1890 in the then fashion. In 1925, it was remodeled to the English Tudor style in fashion covering and half-timbering at the second level.

In the late teen and twenties it became fashionable to combine motifs from Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial architecture. These houses generally have cast or curved ornaments, especially around windows and doors, and twisted decorative columns. Windows are relatively small and irregularly spaced. The style was a favorite of film stars in southern California.

A nice interpretation of the post conquest California ranch house with what may be original Streamline overtones in a second story balcony treatment. The scale, massing and detailing of this handsome building are evidence of changing tastes and fashion over time in the evolution of the Steinbeck historic district.