History

Arts & Crafts Movement

Arts & Crafts Movement in Central New York

The Beginnings of the Arts & Crafts Movement

The Arts & Crafts emerged in the United Kingdom around 1860, at roughly the same time as the closely related Aesthetic Movement, but the spread of the Arts & Crafts across the Atlantic to the United States in the 1890s, enabled it to last longer - at least into the 1920s.

Red House

1872

Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca

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Sage Chapel, named after Henry Sage, a Cornell trustee, designed by the Reverend Charles Babcock, Cornell University’s first Professor of Architecture. Stonework by local stone-carver Robert Richardson

Tulip and Rose

1876

Syracuse Savings Bank

Syracuse Savings Bank opens, designed in “Ruskinian Gothic” style by Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Read more here: https://www.artscraftscny.org/post/joseph-lyman-silsbee-and-the-roots-of-the-cny-arts-and-crafts-movement

Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

1893

New Stickley furniture factory on Burnet Ave

Gustav Stickley builds new furniture factory on Burnet Ave. in Eastwood, NY

Beaver

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1894

Tiffany Decoration

Willard Chapel open in Auburn, noted for its Tiffany decoration.

1897

Moravian Pottery and Tile Works

Gamble House

Henry Chapman Mercer founds Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania

1898

Gustave Stickley Company

Gustav Stickley forms the Gustave* Stickley Company (*he dropped the use of the “e” in 1903).

1899

Keramic Studio

Adelaide and Samuel Robineau launch Keramic Studio. They move to Syracuse in 1901

1900

New Furniture

Gustav Stickley works with Henry Wilkinson and, possibly, LaMont A. Warner to create his first Arts and Crafts works in an experimental line called the New Furniture

1901

United Crafts

Gustav Stickley changes his company’s name to the United Crafts, and publishes a catalogue written by Syracuse professor Irene Sargent

1901

The Craftsman magazine

First issue of The Craftsman magazine published by Gustav Stickley

1901

Remodeling Gustav Stickley’s new house

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A fire destroys art of the interior of Gustav Stickley’s new house (designed by Wellington Tabor). Stickley remodels and creates the first Craftsman interior, views and plans of which are published published in The Craftsman, in December 1902.