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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.
The stick work symbolized the structural skeleton
Purely decorative vertical, horizontal, diagonal and crisscross boards applied over horizontal clapboards most often found on gable ends and upper stories ...
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 ...
 See also: Dormer, Bracket, Stick, Tower, Architecture
  
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