I do not feature enough Queen Anne style buildings on my account, as penance, I present this beautiful example of the style with a painted lady color scheme! Located on Windsor Avenue in West Acton, Massachusetts, this house was built in 1892 and has all the hallmarks of the Queen Anne style. The use of varied siding materials and forms, asymmetrical form, applied ornament, and large five-sided tower capped by a conical slate roof with weathervane. The home was built for Arthur F. Blanchard, a local businessman who operated an apple farm and marketing business opened by his father. Mr. Blanchard was a philanthropist in town and used his wealth to enhance his hometown by funding the Blanchard Auditorium at the Acton High School (1925) and was a benefactor of the West Acton Women’s Club in 1925. He and his son, Webster, also founded the Blanchard Foundation in town in 1946, an organization which funded and sponsored educational projects for the community.
Buildings of New England 
Gorgeous. (Admittedly, I hate Queen Anne.) I still hope you will spend some time in Framingham, Sudbury, et cetera. I left Framingham, place of my birth, to return to York Pennsylvania. I picked up at the library and read the introduction last night to local photograph and author, Scott Butcher’s, Historical Architecture of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Dutch is a misnomer for deutch – German influenced architecture, as one can imagine, for the six counties covered in this book.
By the way, you should contact his publisher, Schiffer Publishing. You’ve done all the work. Its the same stuff he is doing: $ . Well, I have no other means of saying thank you for your work, but to brainstorm on your behalf.
I don’t know where we are between summer solstice and autumnal equinox, but I do hope you enjoy the sunshine, et cetera, so evident in your pictures. In postscript, if I wasn’t a poor artist, I would be a rich patron.
Be well.
Respectfully,
David Loring, York, Pennsylvian
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Thank you David! Don’t you worry, Framingham and Sudbury are high on my list!
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