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 ...
Decorative stickwork forms geometric patterns around the expansive porch of Mark Twain's Connecticut home.
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Gallery Index: The Mark Twain House (1874 / 1881) ...
Although proponents lauded the structural honesty of Stick style, the visible stickwork, unlike true half-timbering, was merely applied decoration with no structural relation to the underlying balloon-frame construction
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The style is primarily identified by the "stickwork" or false half timbering that mimics the Medieval English Tudor Revival buildings. However, in contrast to the stick house plans, most Tudor Revival houses were sided with stucco, stone, or brick.
the Stick Style represented a transition from the Gothic Revival to the later Queen Anne style. On stick-style buildings, the wall surface itself is emphasized with ornament, identified most prominently with the diagonal or straight stickwork ...
 See also: Stick, Gothic, House, Architecture, Stick style
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