A Timeline of the Gustav Stickley House

A Partnership Forms

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.

Audi Family Purchases Home

The Audi family purchase the house for their L & JG Stickley Co. for $225,000 as a marketing venue.

Stickley Partners Inc. Purchases Home From Norman Roth
Sideboard Sold

The Columbus Ave. sideboard is sold at Christies for $363,000. L & JG Stickley offer a limited edition of the sideboard in 1991.

House Officially Historic

The house is added to the National Register of Historic Places.

House Sold

The family sells the house and it is subdivided into five apartments.

Stickley’s Daughter Buys House

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.

House Sold

The Columbus Ave. house is sold to the Fleishman family with the proviso that the furniture remain in it. The property is valued at $16,000.

Stickley Moves to NJ

Stickley, with wife and six children, moves to Craftsman Farms, Morris Plains, NJ.

Interior Rebuilt

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