Stick style

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The 1874 Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station , Rodanthe , North Carolina . The distinctive truss elements and visible built-in vertical beams are remarkable .

The stick style was an American architectural style . It reached its widest distribution in the last quarter of the 19th century and is slightly different depending on the place of its development. It forms the transition between the Carpenter Gothic style of the mid-19th century and the Queen Anne style , which developed in the 1890s. The architectural style gets its name from the "stickwork" (overlay board strips) on the outer walls to represent a protruding wooden framework .

features

The Herman C. Timm House in New Holstein, Wisconsin with “stickwork” painted dark to emphasize the contrast.

The style was a further development of the balloon framing (post construction), which had become fashionable in the middle of the century and gave the impression that the entire building was made of half-timbered, and cited this construction method through the use of simple panels (plain trim boards) , Festoons , framing window decorations (aprons, aprons) and other decorative elements. The stick-style architecture is recognizable by its relatively simple building shape, which, however, is often accentuated by half-timbered work on the gables or decorative shingles .

The stickwork decoration has no supporting function, as only narrow planks or thin boards were placed over the existing inverted formwork . The planks usually cross in a right-angled arrangement, sometimes diagonally, and are reminiscent of the half-timbering of medieval buildings and especially of the Tudor style . This construction method was often used for private houses, railway stations, lifeguard houses and other structures of the era.

The stick style had various characteristics in common with the later Queen Anne style : nested roof surfaces with wide panels on the brick chimneys, the surrounding veranda, spindle decorations, the "paneled" (flat) divisions of the smooth wall, the radial spindle details on the gable peaks. Highly stylized and decorative versions of this type are often referred to as Eastlake .

Stick Eastlake

The William S. Clark House , a Stick-Eastlake "cottage" in Eureka, California .

Stick-Eastlake refers to buildings of the Eastlake Movement , which goes back to Charles Eastlake . They are characterized by a variety of decorative arts and crafts elements on stick-style buildings. Sometimes this architectural style is also referred to as the Victorian Stick . Stick-Eastlake was reasonably popular towards the end of the 19th century, but there are few surviving examples relative to other popular versions of Victorian architecture.

A completely different architectural style of the American Arts and Crafts Movement (American Craftsman design) is often referred to as the Stickley style after its inventor Gustav Stickley .

Examples

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Virginia & Lee McAlester: A Field Guide to American Houses . Alfred A. Knopf, 1984, ISBN 0-394-73969-8 , pp. 254-261.
  2. ↑ Frank PERISSINOTTI: Diagram of a Stick-Eastlake house . 2002.
  3. ^ Joel Shrock: The Gilded Age . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-32204-4 , p. 75: "Small wooden boards [...] that were often horizontal, diagonal, and vertical. [...] These decorative cross timbers were also called stickwork. - small wooden boards [...] which were often arranged horizontally, diagonally and vertically. [...] These decorative cross beams were also referred to as embroidery. "
  4. ↑ Gabrielle M. Lanier: Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes . JHU Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8018-5325-8 , p. 158.
  5. ^ Allison Lee Palmer: Historical Dictionary of Romantic Art and Architecture . Scarecrow Press, June 10, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7473-2 , p. 229: “The stick-style home, popular from 1860 to 1890, was a wooden home with a gabled roof that featured diagonal wooden trusses in the gables much like the Tudor revival. - The stick-style home, popular between 1860 and 1890, was a wooden house with a gable roof that used diagonal wooden framework on the gables, very similar to the Tudor Revival style. "
  6. ^ "The Train Depot" . Homepage of the Village of Altamont.
  7. ↑ Falkirkculturalcenter.org .

literature

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