The now Stickley-Audi Co. partners with the Everson Museum of Art to explore the possibility of turning the unoccupied property into an historic house museum.
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.
The interior is rebuilt to provide an ideal background for Stickley’s Craftsman furniture. It is believed to be the first interior in America in the Arts & Crafts style. In the December 1902 issue of The Craftsman, Samuel Howe writes: “When I enter I note a rich grandeur in the…Read More