A Timeline of the Gustav Stickley House Stickley’s Daughter Purchases House – 1919 The house is bought by Stickley’s daughter, Barbara and her husband Ben Wiles. Stickley spends his last years with them and with his other children in Syracuse and Rochester. He dies in Syracuse in April 1942 at 85. Page 29 of 40 1 … 28 29 30 … 40