Apr 07, 1994
National Register of Historic Places -Mollie and Josephine Hughes House (Gregg--Childers House)
Statement of Significance: The Hughes House, 801 S. Main, in Independence, Missouri is significant under criterion C in the area of architecture. Built in 1887 by Christian Yetter and designed by the architectural firm of Gibbs and Parker, the house illustrated and still retains typical Queen Anne characteristics, such as the asymmetrical facade, complex roof line, wrap-around veranda, and the circular oriel. This Queen Anne house survives in excellent condition, having undergone only minimal alteration, and retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and location. Narrative: The English Queen Anne style was generally acknowledged to have its origins in the work of Richard Norman Shaw and was further popularized by J.J. Stevenson, who preferred the term "Free Classic" for the result.1 The Queen Anne style was introduced in America in the 1870s, where it acquired elements of both the vernacular and the Colonial style but avoided any specific historical accuracy.2 One of the earliest American exponents of the style, Henry Hudson Holly, introduced his interpretation in Harper's Monthly in 1877 and, in the next year, in a pattern book, Modern Dwellings. Shaw's English designs had introduced the characteristic large chimneys, irregular plan and silhouette, and textured surface treatment, while the American interpretations of Holly were more irregular than their English antecedents and aspired to a more exaggerated, artistic effect. Among those elements emphasized by the American Queen Anne style were carved decorations in gable ends and over windows and, later, the tower and the balcony. The importance of the balcony and veranda and the extension of interior space into oriels and bays underscored the importance, in the American examples of the style, of "the free flowing of space into space and indoors into outdoors," and represented an essential difference between the English and American styles.
National Register of Historic Places -Mollie and Josephine Hughes House (Gregg--Childers House)
Statement of Significance: The Hughes House, 801 S. Main, in Independence, Missouri is significant under criterion C in the area of architecture. Built in 1887 by Christian Yetter and designed by the architectural firm of Gibbs and Parker, the house illustrated and still retains typical Queen Anne characteristics, such as the asymmetrical facade, complex roof line, wrap-around veranda, and the circular oriel. This Queen Anne house survives in excellent condition, having undergone only minimal alteration, and retains integrity of design, materials, workmanship, and location. Narrative: The English Queen Anne style was generally acknowledged to have its origins in the work of Richard Norman Shaw and was further popularized by J.J. Stevenson, who preferred the term "Free Classic" for the result.1 The Queen Anne style was introduced in America in the 1870s, where it acquired elements of both the vernacular and the Colonial style but avoided any specific historical accuracy.2 One of the earliest American exponents of the style, Henry Hudson Holly, introduced his interpretation in Harper's Monthly in 1877 and, in the next year, in a pattern book, Modern Dwellings. Shaw's English designs had introduced the characteristic large chimneys, irregular plan and silhouette, and textured surface treatment, while the American interpretations of Holly were more irregular than their English antecedents and aspired to a more exaggerated, artistic effect. Among those elements emphasized by the American Queen Anne style were carved decorations in gable ends and over windows and, later, the tower and the balcony. The importance of the balcony and veranda and the extension of interior space into oriels and bays underscored the importance, in the American examples of the style, of "the free flowing of space into space and indoors into outdoors," and represented an essential difference between the English and American styles.
Apr 07, 1994
Posted Date
Aug 17, 2023
Historical Record Date
Apr 07, 1994
Source Name
National Register of Historic Places
