Gothic Stick Style House
Gothic stick style houseHallmarks of carpenter gothic board and batten siding.
Gothic stick style house. It is named after its use of linear stickwork overlay board strips on the outside walls to mimic an exposed half timbered frame. The origins of the stick style are european gothic but an american architect named richard morris hunt actually developed the style in america. Considered the first house to display the matured stick design. Whatever the classification the style is sufficiently distinct to deserve separate mention.
Whatever the case houses in the victorian stick eastlake style did precede the queen anne style by a few years. Walpole worked on strawberry hill house for nearly thirty years beginning in 1749. The well known house located near london at strawberry hill near twickenham became a model for gothic revival architecture. The stick style and its colors may be seen as transitional to the queen anne.
The carpenter gothic is related to such northern european timber frame traditions as the swiss chalet all part of the continuum toward the stick style in the 1870s. Richard morris hunt designed a house for j n a. The stick style was a late 19th century american architectural style transitional between the carpenter gothic style of the mid 19th century and the queen anne style that it had evolved into by the 1890s. The stick style popular from about 1860 to 1890 is sometimes considered to be a high victorian elaboration of the gothic revival style and or is considered to be a transitional style between the gothic revival and the queen anne.
Griswold that architectural historian vincent j. Complex massing of building elements bays towers gables porches windows of all sizes. Griswold house newport rhode island. Queen anne 1880 1915 the architecture was characterized by variety irregularity asymmetry.
The stick style is often considered to be a transitional style linking the preceding gothic revival with the subsequent queen anne. Today historians often call stick a transitional style a bridge between the picturesque gothic of the 1840s and 50s and the full flowering of victorian ideas in the queen anne houses of the 1880s and 90s. This was in 1862 before eastlake s book. While such a perspective is academically accurate generations later in its day the stick house was nothing if not totally fresh up to.
It is in this house that walpole also invented a new genre of fiction the gothic novel in 1764. Carpenter gothic also sometimes called carpenter s gothic or rural gothic is a north american architectural style designation for an application of gothic revival architectural detailing and picturesque massing applied to wooden structures built by house carpenters. Vertical boards with the joints covered by narrow wood strips.