Styles · 2 buildings with a page
Stick
Boards applied over the clapboards to suggest the frame inside.
- Usual dates
- 1860–1890
- In Newburyport
- c. 1870–1880
- Built 1860–1900
- 2
How to recognize it
- 01Flat boards over the siding in horizontal bands, verticals and diagonals
- 02Steep gable roofs with decorative trusses or braces at the peak
- 03Overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends
- 04Porches with diagonal braces between the posts
- 05Wall surfaces divided into panels, sometimes with different siding in each
- 06Tall proportions and a general angularity
About the style
The Stick style is recognized by the flat boards, the "stickwork," laid over the wall surface in horizontal, vertical and diagonal patterns to hint at the timber frame behind. Roofs are steep, gables carry decorative trusses, and porches have diagonal braces. It overlaps with Gothic Revival before it and Queen Anne after, and pure examples are uncommon.
In Newburyport it appears on a handful of houses of the 1870s and 1880s, usually mixed with Italianate or Queen Anne details.
Stick in Newburyport
Styles are as recorded on each building's page; a building whose page names two styles is listed under the one that fits its date, or under Victorian Eclectic when both are Victorian, with its own wording under its address. Buildings not yet researched show the state inventory's dates and styles. Hollow dots are lost buildings. Locations: MassGIS / Massachusetts Historical Commission.