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19-460: Heintzman may refer to: Theodor August Heintzman (1817-1899), Canadian piano manufacturer . Heintzman & Co. , the piano company started by the above. Andrew Heintzman , Canadian journalist . Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Heintzman . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

38-682: A plaque memorializing Heintzman's contributions to both the Junction and the piano industry. He died in 1899, shortly after the death of his wife. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910. It is sometimes grouped as New World Queen Anne Revival architecture . Popular there during this time, it followed

57-788: A Serlian motif and a two-story oriel window that projects asymmetrically were frequently featured. The most famous American Queen Anne residence is the Carson Mansion in Eureka, California . Newsom and Newsom were notable builder-architects of 19th-century California homes and public buildings, and they designed and constructed (1884–1886) this 18-room home for William Carson, one of California's first lumber barons . After 1885, use of Eastlake -style trim shifted to "free classic" or Colonial Revival trim, including pedimented entryways and Palladian windows . Smaller and somewhat plainer houses can also be Queen Anne. The William G. Harrison House

76-599: A successful piano manufacturer in his own right. In Buffalo, Heintzman worked at Keogh Piano Company (located at what is now Fireman's Park) before he started the a piano forte firm with Francis Drew and Henry Annowsky (1853 as Drew, Heintzman and Annowsky at 10 and Court Street ), which he ran until it went under in 1858. From 1858 to 1860 Heintzman ran Western Pianoforte Manufactory Company in Hamilton , Canada West (founded in 1856 by Charles Thomas). In 1860, Heintzman moved to Toronto, where he constructed his first four pianos in

95-429: A weathered look on a new building, even had the cedar shakes dipped in buttermilk, dried, and then installed, to leave a grayish tinge to the façade. The shingle-style also conveyed a sense of the house as continuous volume. This effect—of the building as an envelope of space, rather than a great mass, was enhanced by the visual tautness of the flat shingled surfaces, the horizontal shape of many shingle-style houses, and

114-648: A youth, eventually settling in at a German piano factory . In 1840, he married his boss' daughter and, following the lead of her family, immigrated to the United States in 1850. It is believed by the Heintzman family that Theodor immigrated on the same boat as Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg , another piano-maker, and the two attempted to start a business in New York City. They soon parted ways, however, with Heintzman taking his family to Buffalo where he started again; Steinweg eventually changed his name to Steinway and became

133-549: Is also still standing. The Junction was also home to the primary Heintzman factory prior to the moving of operations to Hanover (today, most Heintzman pianos are made in China). Heintzman Street, a short, dead-end road which runs just north of Dundas Street , formerly led to the Junction factory, which in its heyday employed over 200 craftsmen, making it one of the largest Canadian factories of any kind for its time. A nearby Lutheran Church , which Heintzman and his family attended, bears

152-732: Is an example, built in 1904 in rural Nashville, Georgia . Characteristics of the Queen Anne cottage style are: The Shingle style in America was made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style . In the Shingle style, English influence was combined with the renewed interest in Colonial American architecture which followed

171-535: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad are also familiar examples of the style, built variously of brick and wood. Gabled and domestically scaled, these early American Queen Anne homes were built of warm, soft brick enclosing square terracotta panels, with an arched side passage leading to an inner court and back house. Their detailing is largely confined to the treatment of picturesquely disposed windows, with small-paned upper sashes and plate glass lower ones. Triple windows of

190-647: The Second Empire and Stick styles and preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle styles. Sub-movements of Queen Anne include the Eastlake movement . The style bears almost no relationship to the original Queen Anne style architecture in Britain (a toned-down version of English Baroque that was used mostly for gentry houses) which appeared during the time of Queen Anne , who reigned from 1702 to 1714, nor of Queen Anne Revival (which appeared in

209-519: The 1876 celebration of the United States Centennial. Architects emulated colonial houses' plain, shingled surfaces as well as their massing, whether in the simple gable of McKim, Mead and White 's Low House or in the complex massing of Kragsyde , which looked almost as if a colonial house had been fancifully expanded over many years. This impression of the passage of time was enhanced by the use of shingles. Some architects, in order to attain

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228-888: The 1920s, such as the wrap-around front porch (often L-shaped). Distinctive features of the American Queen Anne style may include: The British 19th-century Queen Anne style that had been formulated there by Norman Shaw and other architects arrived in New York City with the new housing for the New York House and School of Industry at 120 West 16th Street (designed by Sidney V. Stratton , 1878). The Astral Apartments that were built in Brooklyn in 1885–1886 (to house workers) are an example of red-brick and terracotta Queen Anne architecture in New York. E. Francis Baldwin 's stations for

247-440: The emphasis on horizontal continuity, both in exterior details and in the flow of spaces within the houses. McKim, Mead and White and Peabody and Stearns were two of the notable firms of the era that helped to popularize the shingle style, through their large-scale commissions for "seaside cottages" of the rich and the well-to-do in such places as Newport, Rhode Island. However, the most famous Shingle-style house built in America

266-506: The first trans-Canadian rail trip , which he used both as a means for sale and advertising . Heintzman pianos soon grew steadily in reputation, and as a result, Heintzman became a very wealthy man. He and his four adult sons (all of whom were in the family business) settled into West Toronto Junction which was, at the time, a separate town from Toronto. Heintzman's estate, built in 1889, was called "The Birches", and despite some internal modifications, it still stands on Annette Street, across

285-404: The kitchen of his son-in-law; these sold well, and with the proceeds he was able to found Heintzman & Co., Ltd. , setting up his primary warehouse first on Toronto's York Street, soon moving to King Street near Yonge . Heintzman enjoyed a reputation as a grand showman, often performing on his pianos as part of his sales pitch. Of note is that Heintzman took several of his pianos with him on

304-494: The latter 19th century there). The American style covers a wide range of picturesque buildings with "free Renaissance" (non- Gothic Revival ) details, rather than being a specific formulaic style in its own right. The term "Queen Anne", as an alternative both to the French-derived Second Empire style and the less "domestic" Beaux-Arts style , is broadly applied to architecture, furniture and decorative arts of

323-489: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heintzman&oldid=803867530 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Theodor August Heintzman Born in Berlin, Heintzman worked in various manufacturing jobs as

342-427: The period from 1880 to 1910. Some Queen Anne architectural elements, such as the wrap-around front porch, continued to be found into the 1920s. Queen Anne style buildings in the United States came into vogue during the 1880s, replacing the French-derived Second Empire as the 'style of the moment'. The popularity of high Queen Anne style waned in the early 1900s, but some elements continued to be found on buildings into

361-518: The street from Annette Street Public School. A property developer 's plan to tear it down in the early 1980s sparked a protest from local citizens, and a compromise was reached wherein the exterior has been restored in the original Queen Anne Revival style. Two of his sons' homes in the area are also still standing: Herman Heintzman's home on High Park Avenue and George Heinztman's house on Woodside Avenue. A larger estate of George's in Thornhill, Ontario

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