GFE Stumpes: The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms (7/24/2026)

Friday, July 24, 2026 (continued)

Another stop at The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, again gaining admission with our Tyler Arboretum membership cards. It is located in Parsippany, NJ, near Morris Plains.

Stickley Log House (1908-1911, by Gustave Stickley) as
designed as a communal "clubhouse" for an intended farm school
for boys, but later modified into the Stickley family residence

A quick lunch and still had time to browse
the gift shop before a 13:00 guided tour;
table runner with Stickley Seedpods

Items in Arts and Crafts style, a movement of which
Stickley was a leader and prominent voice

Fabrics for aprons

The guide opened the door to the "ice box"
which stretched across the back of the kitchen,
with the ice stored above

Purpose-built Stickley cupboards, and
an access area to the ice box

Chinaware with the Stickley logo "Als Ik Kan," an
old Flemish and Dutch phrase that translates to "as I can"
(derived from the old saying “as I can, not as I would”)

Large coal-burning stove

Dining room: Stickley fashioned furniture base on the grain
of the wood, thus he preferred table runners as full
tablecloths wood hide the beauty of the table (KSS)

Living room with wood-burning stone and tile hearth

Quotes were hammered into the fireplace
copper hoods: "By hammer and hand do
all things stand" reflects traditional
handicrafts and labor

Stickley Eastwood Chair featuring
exposed pinned mortise-and-tenon joints;
note the pyramidal pins on the armrests;
named for the location of the workshop
in Eastwood, NY, near Syracuse

Instead of a sofa, Stickley made a settle,
a traditional wooden bench with high back and arms (KSS)

The corner post of the settle shows that
four layers of wood were joined to
create a pattern of the grains (KSS)

A Stickley partners' table or library table (1902)
in the "recreation area"...

...along with an original Stickley piano (c 1909-1913)

Enclosed porch with poured concrete floor
and furniture made with willow rather than rattan (KSS)

Deer family beyond the front lawn

Butterfly joinery on a three-panel wooden screen (c 1913-1915)

Eastwood Chair (c 1901-1902)
with a reclining back (KSS)

Stickley fireplace andirons are unusual with curved ends

Library chair (c1901-1904) and table (c 1903-1904)

1914 Edison Amberola wax cylinder
phonograph player with wax cylinders packages

Heading up the Stickley stairs

Girls' bedroom showing an original bed (c 1907-1911),
and illustrating that Stickley put windows in doors
leading to another room, and no window on closet doors

A replica bed showing decorations made with copper
and inlaid woods, although the guide said "turquoise"

Main (and only) bathroom

Inlaid rocker (c 1903-1904) with pewter,
copper, and fruitwood inlay that reflects the sun

Chest of drawers (1902-1903) with
Stickley's style of deepening drawers
from top to bottom, which is also seen...

...in the sideboard (c 1911) next to the dining room

Stickley's office cabinet (1902) was made for
his office in Syracuse, NY; the cabinet was
loaned to the Stickley Museum for a special
exhibit and it was decided to extend the loan