The stick house style, in its heyday in the 1880's, is an American 'Victorian Era' residential housing style influenced by the Gothic Revival movement. In 1842 A.J. Downing and A.J. Davis published their book, Cottage Residences. Quickly becoming a best-seller, it spread the gospel that catalyzed the building of the picturesque stick houses across the USA.
Here in Portland, Oregon 'gingerbread victorians' were constructed as early as 1884 as well as the 'stick houses'.
http://www.oldhousejournal.com/magazine/2003/june/stick_style.shtml
http://victoriansanfrancisco.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Ladies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jackson_Davis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Downing
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