The stick style, a transition from from Gothic Revival to Queen Anne, is one of several architectural styles that today are called Victorian. The other styles are:

• Gothic Revival
• Italianate
• Eastlake
• Queen Anne

In California, stick style buildings are often called Stick-Eastlake even if they lack distinctive Eastlake details.

The style is chiefly characterized by decorative stick work which mimics structural components and is often reminescent of half-timbered houses.

Distinctive features are:

• overhanging eaves with embellished truss
• siding and stick work applied in various directions: horizontal, vertical, diagonal
• corner boards with extended brackets
• squared bay windows
• false gable
• false mansard roof
• wide band of trim under cornice
• sunbursts in gables
• Eastlake trim
• vertical trim at sides of windows