Architecture and Interior Design: An Integrated History to the Present
First Edition
Chapter 35
Stick, Queen Anne
1880s – 1910s
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Stick, Queen Anne
Stick Style architecture combines medieval half-timbered buildings with new balloon framing construction method
Wooden planks or sticks form decorative surface patterns
Uniquely American
Does not have corresponding interior or furniture style
Queen Anne originates in England, attempt to create an image of home, tradition, & middle-class comfort
Combines elements from the 16th, 17th, & 18th centuries
Americans translate it into wood
Does not have corresponding interior or furniture style
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Concepts
Stick Style influenced by the Picturesque, historicism, Gothic Revival theory
Models: English picturesque suburban architecture; late Gothic vernacular in England, France & Germany; Swiss chalets; board & batten cottages of A. J. Davis & A. J Downing
English Queen Anne: no strong conceptual basis
Eclectic: elements from English vernacular, Elizabethan, Tudor; Japanese; 17th & early 18th centuries
1890s Queen Anne applied to anything not Gothic Revival
American Queen Anne: English Queen Anne image of home & ancestry appealing
Victorian vernacular: common or folk version of the style
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35.1
Architectural and Interior Details: Stained glass window and doorway screen, 1870s-1880s; Texas.
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Architecture
Stick Style: emerges on U. S. East Coast during the 1850s
More popular in pattern books than practice
Definitive characteristic: stickwork or flat boards in geometric patterns in panels; around windows & doors, roof brackets; porch supports
English Queen Anne, interest in Stuart & Georgian periods, rejection of morality of Gothic
18th century: red brick, sash windows, & shutters; 17th century: gables, pediments, white trim, & prominent coves; English vernacular: half-timbering, pargework, overhangs, casement windows; irregularity
American Queen Anne first architect designed; later builder style
Opening planning; variety in form, materials, textures, windows, roofs; towers; prominent chimneys
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35.2
New Jersey State Building, International Centennial Exhibition, 1876; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stick Style.
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35.3
Allied Assurance Company, 1–2 St. James Street, c. 1882; Pall Mall, London, England; Richard Norman Shaw. Queen Anne.
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Long Description:
The building has slender columns and a semicircular projecting porch with six double-hung windows. Pediments over windows have lintel with keystone, string course layer on every floor, corniced finely at the top, and a row of posts hides low pitched roof, emphasis on symmetrical balance. The roofline has large curved windows.
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35.4
Hotel del Coronado, 1886–1888; Coronado California. Queen Anne.
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Long Description:
The hotel has the creation of a spectacular five-story castle-like structure replete with Queen Anne-style design aesthetics. On the ocean, the corner is a pavilion, northward along the ocean, and terraced grass on the beach. The dining wing projects at an angle from the corner of the court and be almost detached to give total value to the view of the ocean, bay, and city.
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35.5a
John N. A. Griswold House, 1862–1864; Newport, Rhode Island; Richard Morris Hunt. Stick Style.
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Long Description:
The building has three floors. It has three steeply pitched in a row with chimneys on top and the second floor contains glass windows rectangular in shapes same as the second floor. The ground floor has entrance and glass windows with one entrance on the left corner, another on the left corner, and plants hanging on the roof.
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35.5b
John N. A. Griswold House stair hall, 1862–1864; Newport, Rhode Island; Richard Morris Hunt. Stick Style.
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35.6
Leys Wood, 1866-1869; Sussex, England; Richard Norman Shaw. Queen Anne.
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35.7
Mark Twain House, c. 1874; Hartford, Connecticut; Edward Tucker Potter. Stick Style.
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35.8a
Watts Sherman House, 1874-1875; Newport, Rhode Island; Henry Hobson Richardson. Queen Anne.
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Long Description:
The house has a tall chimney and a variety of roof designs. It has a horizontal band of windows, small window panes, half timbering, and shingles accent facade. The main facade has a partial width porch for entry, a brownstone on the lower wall, and an asymmetric arrangement of the facade.
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35.8b
Floor plan and stair hall, Watts Sherman House, 1874–1875; Newport, Rhode Island; Henry Hobson Richardson. Queen Anne.
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Long Description:
The first story has granite ashlar with higher stories of brick, shingle, and half-timbered stucco, diamond-panel windows grouped in long, horizontal bands, and five massive red brick chimneys. The roof is steeply gabled, with a broad single gable in front and multiple sharp to the rear, all originally shingled in wood.
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35.9
Carson House, 1884–1886; Eureka, California; Samuel Newsom and Joseph C. Newsom. Queen Anne or Eastlake.
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Long Description:
The house has an asymmetrical facade, dominant, overhanging eaves, and geometrical towers. It has dutch gables, including the primary entrance area, a second-story porch, or balconies. It has pedimented porches and differing wall textures, such as patterned wood shingles shaped into varying designs, including resembling fish scales, terra cotta tiles, relief panels, or wooden shingles over brickwork, and horizontal bands of leaded windows.
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35.10
Eldridge Johnson House (The Pink House), 1892; Cape May, New Jersey. Victorian Vernacular.
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Interiors
Stick Style: no corresponding interior style
Some have stickwork; others fashionable revivals
Queen Anne house interiors do not replicate 18th century
Revival styles, Aesthetic or Arts & Crafts Movements
Particularly in England,18th century characteristics: classical columns; pediments; low relief plasterwork; classical motifs; wall paneling
Common practice: each room a different style
Masculine styles for dining rooms & halls; feminine ones in parlors & morning rooms
Newly introduced living halls used as living rooms, entrance halls; circulation spaces
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35.12
Dining room, published in Decoration and Furniture of Town Houses, 1881; by Robert William Edis. London and New York City. Queen Anne.
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35.13
Parlor, Davis House, 1890s; Richmond, Texas. Victorian Vernacular.
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35.14
Mantel, late
century; United States. Queen Anne.
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35.15
Wall designs and color schemes; published in Painting and Decorating, c. 1898; by Walter Pierce, London.
