The simple, voluminous, two-story box, usually covered by a hipped roof, emerged throughout the country in the 1890s as a pragmatic type for the middle-class house, whether in suburbia or on the farm. In some cases these box houses might refer to the Queen Anne style; in others, to the Colonial
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