The seaside town of Ocean Grove, New Jersey, is a picture-perfect catalog of Stick Style architecture.

A celebration of timber construction, Victorian-era Stick Style houses are the culmination of a tradition that began in the 1840s with the picturesque movement.

Cape May is a town-sized textbook of late-19th-century American domestic architecture.

The Stick style, as it is now called, represented the most innovative design concepts and building technologies of its time, yet it did not attract serious study—or even a widely accepted name—until a century later.