A beautiful Stick Style house overlooking the Kennebec River in Maine. The Stick Style is a variation of the Queen Anne style. It features wall surfaces divided into panels with flat or molded trim, often with different siding materials in panels to give a variety of patterns and textures to the surface.
The panels can also contain Japanese-inspired ornamental strapwork, as seen on the second story of the tower here. The Aesthetic Movement that spawned the Queen Anne style and its variations was strongly influenced by Japanese design.
Stick Style was named by noted architectural historian Vincent Scully, who traced its development in the mid-19th century in his influential 1955 book, “The Shingle Style and the Stick Style.” A pioneering work in sorting out the stylistic developments of the 1870s and 1880s, the book is still in print and well worth owning if you love Victorian architecture.
Queen Anne and Stick Style are two of the 25 styles and types illustrated in Chapter 2 of “Restoring Your Historic House, The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners.”
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