| The Stick house has high pitched roofs,
and it has gabled roofs. Gables commonly show decorative trusses at the apex, or top. They
contained overhanging eaves usually with exposed rafter ends (normally replaced by
brackets in town). They also had wooden wall cladding shingles or boards, interrupted by
patterns of horizontal, vertical or diagonal (stickwork) raised from the wall surface for
emphasis. The stick house has gabled roofs which are
triangles pointing to the walls of buildings that have high pitched roofs. Trusses are
assembled of small members of wood or metal in triangular sections in such a way that the
whole right cannot be deflected without deforming one of the members used to span large
distances. Eaves are the lower edge often overhanging the roof.
This style came from Andrew Jackson Downing and flourished in house
pattern books of the 1860s and 1870s. |
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