Stick style

Not to be confused with "Stickley style", an alternate term for the American Craftsman designs of Gustav Stickley.

The 1874 Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station, Rodanthe, North Carolina. Note the prominent trussing and visual use of vertical beams.

The Stick style was a late-19th-century American architectural style. According to McAlester, it served as the transition between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century, and the Queen Anne style that it evolved into and superseded it by the 1890s.

Characteristics

The Herman C. Timm House, a Stick-style house located in New Holstein, Wisconsin.

The style sought to bring a translation of the balloon framing that had risen in popularity during the middle of the century, by alluding to them through plain trim boards, soffits, aprons, and other decorative features. Stick-style architecture is recognizable by the relatively plain layout often accented with trusses on the gables or decorative shingles.

The style was commonly used in houses, train stations, life-saving stations, and other buildings from the era.

The Stick style did have several characteristics in common with the later Queen Anne style: interpenetrating roof planes with bold panelled brick chimneys, the wrap-around porch, spindle detailing, the "panelled" sectioning of blank wall, radiating spindle details at the gable peaks. Highly stylized and decorative versions of the Stick style are often referred to as Eastlake.

Stick-Eastlake

A Stick-Eastlake–style "cottage", built in Eureka, California.

Stick-Eastlake is a style term that uses details from the Eastlake Movement of decorative arts on Stick-style buildings . The style is named for Charles Eastlake. It is sometimes referred to as Victorian Stick, a variation of Stick and Eastlake styles. Stick-Eastlake enjoyed modest popularity in the late 19th century, but there are relatively few surviving examples of the style when compared to other more popular styles of Victorian architecture.

Examples

• Chatham Train Station in Chatham, Massachusetts
• Delaware and Hudson Railroad Passenger Station - (Altamont Free Library) in Altamont, New York
• John N. A. Griswold House in Newport, Rhode Island
• Hinds House in Santa Cruz, California
• Orfordville Depot in Orfordville, Wisconsin
• Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey
• John Reichert Farmhouse in Mequon, Wisconsin
• Swampscott Railroad Depot in Swampscott, Massachusetts
• Herman C. Timm House in New Holstein, Wisconsin
• Robert Dollar Mansion (Falkirk Cultural Center) in San Rafael, California

See also

• Queen Anne style architecture (United States)
• Category: Victorian architecture in the United States
• Category: Victorian architectural styles - (all countries)

Further reading

• Foster, Gerald L., American houses: a field guide to the architecture of the home, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. Cf. p.387 and various.