James Fielding Cosby House

Style: Queen Anne
City: Los Angeles, CA

The James Fielding Cosby House is a Queen Anne residence in Northeast Los Angeles, individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its ornament and asymmetrical massing reflect the Queen Anne style's popularity in American residential architecture in the late nineteenth century.

the style

Queen Anne houses of this period were built to be read from the street, with porches, turned woodwork, and varied rooflines meant to catch the eye — the kind of street presence that helped this house earn individual National Register status.

significance

Individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

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