Volunteer Instructors Teach English At Reston Library

One of the programs at Reston Regional Library includes One-to-one English Conversation classes. These classes are a part of their Learning English program. The purpose of these classes is to learn English as a Second Language (ESL). However,  according to Ivanka Atanasova, retired Library Information Assistant at Reston Regional Library, ultimately these lessons rendered much more and will continue to do so. She had been charged with coordinating the ESL classes.
English as a Second Language (ESL) students and a volunteer hold a retirement party for Ivanka Atanasova, Library Information Assistant at Reston Regional Library.
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What is a Queen Anne Style Home?

Victorian Home
typical Queen Anne
A sub-style of the late Victorian era, Queen Anne is a collection of coquettish detailing and eclectic materials. Steep cross-gabled roofs, towers, and vertical windows are all typical of a Queen Anne home. Inventive, multistory floor plans often include projecting wings, several porches and balconies, and multiple chimneys with decorative chimney pots.
Queen Anne style home
drawing of a Queen Anne
Wooden "gingerbread" trim in scrolled and rounded "fish-scale" patterns frequently graces gables and porches. Massive cut stone foundations are typical of period houses. Created by English architect Richard Norman Shaw, the style was popularized after the Civil War by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and spread rapidly, especially in the South and West.
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What is a “Federal” style home?

Ubiquitous up and down the East Coast, Federal-style architecture dates from the late 1700s and coincided with a reawakening of interest in classical Greek and Roman culture. Builders began to add swags, garlands, elliptical windows, and other decorative details to rectangular Georgian houses. The style that emerged resembles Georgian, but is more delicate and more formal. Many Federal-style homes have an arched Palladian window on the second story above the front door. The front door usually has sidelights and a semicircular fanlight.
Federal Home
Federal style
In some parts of the country, Federal-style homes are often called "Adam" after the English brothers who popularized the style. The Federal-style can be found in parts of Old Town Alexandria VA.
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Gothic Revival

gothic home
Gothic Revival
The influence of English romanticism and the mass production of elaborate wooden millwork after the Industrial Revolution fueled the construction of Gothic Revival homes in the mid-1800s. These picturesque structures are marked by "Gothic" windows with distinctive pointed arches; exposed framing timbers; and steep, vaulted roofs with cross-gables. Extravagant features may include towers and verandas. Ornate wooden detailing is generously applied as gable, window, and door trim. American architects Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing championed Gothic in domestic buildings in the 1830s. Most Gothic Revival homes were constructed between 1840 and 1870 in the Northeast.  
Gothic
Typical Gothic Revival
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