The Larsen Family House is quintessential Queen Anne architecture, the purest and most Victorian of that style extant in Willits. Built after the turn-of-the-century when transitional styles were moving away from the Victorian into the Craftsman period, the house has a full complement of identifying Queen Anne characteristics and is uncompromised by features of other styles.

Characteristic Queen Anne features include the steeply pitched gable-on-hip roof with projecting side gables, cutaway bays, asymmetrical front facade and wrap-around veranda, a corner tower, and spindlework detail. Gables and bays, the spacious veranda with its curved windows, decorative woodwork, and roof projections are used to avoid the flat wall surface shunned in Queen Anne architecture.

Extracted from the NRHP nomination.