Find a list of characteristics for the 19th-c. style which takes its name from the architect Charles Eastlake and the use of wooden "stick work."

Points out the main features of the brown shingle or Western stick style Craftsman house. Find tips for identifying East Bay examples.

Explains the features of the late-19th century architectural style known as stick and the decorative variation known as Eastlake.

Describes the basic characteristics of a shingle house, a popular style at the end of the nineteenth century in America.

Read about the characteristics of this uniquely American style which combines aspects of colonial, Romanesque and Gothic revival. View examples.

Characterized by high-pitched and gable roofs, the stick-house style came from Andrew Jackson Downing. Read an overview.