Stick Style in Buffalo, NY
1860-1890
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Stick Style Victorian houses have exposed trusses, "stickwork," and other details borrowed from the middle ages.
The Physick House in Cape May, New Jersey is a hallmark example of the Stick Style. Frank Furness, architect.
stick one's neck out Informal to risk criticism, ridicule, failure, etc., by speaking one's mind
up to one's neck (in) deeply involved (in)
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stickwork - Major framing timbers are placed on top of the exterior siding for structural or decorative purposes
stile - A vertical members of a door where the hinges and door lock are attached ...
Stick work - the decorative stick-like pieces of wood placed in diagonal, vertical, and horizontal patterns of the outside of a wood-frame building; usually found in gable ends and around windows.
Stickley:
Furniture designed and built by Gustav Stickley who pioneered the American arts and crafts movement, also known as mission style, which is known for clean straight lines and durability.
Stile: ...
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Herman C. Timm House, a stick style house in New Holstein, Wisconsin.
a stick for drawing formed from powdered pigment mixed with wax.
Crenellated
having a series of indentations, like those in a battlement.
A window that sticks out of a house, that can have windows on the side of it. Source:Victorian Architecture Vocabulary
Dentils
A molding going around a house with rectangle holes in it.
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BITUMEN - Black sticky substance, related to asphalt. Used in sealants, mineral felts and damp-proof courses.
BLACKASH MORTAR - Made using industrial ash instead of sand with cement and lime.
Walls: patterned stick work on walls
Side-gabled or front-gabled Roof: Steep pitch,
Slight eave overhang, open, not boxed
Hipped dormers
Square towers
Trusses in gables
Flared eaves
Exposed rafters
Chamfered porch supports ...
Bonding Compound - Hot molten blown bitumen put on to a roof to stick layers of built-up roofing together. A sealing compound is similar but is applied cold ...
In contrast to the advances of religious architecture, secular buildings of the period are fairly conservative and tend to stick to established forms.
Seasoning is quite an exact science undertaken in two basic ways, "air seasoning" in which the timber is referred to as being "in stick" and, "kiln drying.
Craftsman: The Craftsman style (1905-1930) is named for Gustav Stickley's magazine The Craftsman. It is the architectural facet of the Arts and Crafts movement of that period.
Rather than an architectural style, Eastlake was a decorative style of ornament found on Victorian era houses, primarily Queen Anne and Stick styles.
First, the sticking-out stone, dome roof, and second, the concrete covered beam roofs of lime. There is not much information on the first type, but a little more on the second. This type of roofing is flat and made of beams and lime concrete.
The exterior finish of this house is done in the American Stick style that, like the half-timbering of medieval times, showed the structure of the building on the outside.
Balcony- A small porch that sticks off a building above ground level.
Bay window- A window that projects out from a building ( if it is only on an upper floor, it's called an ORIEL WINDOW ). ...
Bay window
a window that sticks out from a building. Usually there are two windows on the sides too.
Dentils
a molding of small tooth like squares.
Wattle - A mat of woven (willow) sticks and weeds; used in wall and dike construction.
Wave - Sinuous moulding.
Weathering - Sloping surface to throw off rainwater.
Ranging rod - Section of timber marked to identify the position of brick and block courses or any other part of the construction - basically a measuring stick.
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This is another of the many Revival Style houses of the early 20th century. Half-timbering was characteristic of buildings in Medieval Europe (5th -14th centuries) when beams held up buildings and the spaces between the beams were filled with sticks ...
This juice helped the plaster stick together and adhere to the adobe bricks. 2) As an additive to the paints used in interior decorations. 3) As shrubby or tree-like hedges, up to 10-15 feet high.
Great use was made of the pointed stick with which sharp lines of light were easily scraped out; and in the 16th century Swiss glass painters, working upon a relatively small scale, got their modelling entirely with a needle-point, ...
Wilson's Bungalow Book (1910), Henry H. Saylor's Bungalow Book (1911), H. V. Von Holst's Modern American Homes (1913), Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Homes (1909) and More Craftsman Homes (1912), and Charles E. White's Bungalow Book (1923).
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