Approximate year Stick style was introduced in U.S. - 1865

The Stick home is another of the styles to emerge under the grouping of the Victorian period. Architectural historians have said of Stick buildings: "the skeleton becomes a total basketry of sticks and the house is a woven fabric". Steep gables with stick-like trim work were common characteristics. Our Longmeadow example is a relatively small Stick home nestled in the lovely Bay Path College campus. Its most obvious Stick marking is its porch posts and railings.