American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated GlossaryVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 - 270 pages |
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... included an order of archi- tecture complete with a short pediment over the porch steps . The second - floor windows did not align with the first . Win- dows were indented toward the center , which often dis- played an oval window on ...
... included an order of archi- tecture complete with a short pediment over the porch steps . The second - floor windows did not align with the first . Win- dows were indented toward the center , which often dis- played an oval window on ...
Page 213
... included buildings constructed in the stick style , the Eastlake style , and the Queen Anne ( and its deriv- ative , the Princess Anne ) , while the central plan / horizontal expression type included the shingle style and the late West ...
... included buildings constructed in the stick style , the Eastlake style , and the Queen Anne ( and its deriv- ative , the Princess Anne ) , while the central plan / horizontal expression type included the shingle style and the late West ...
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... included from one to three gables , a terrace usually on the street side , and an end - wall fireplace chimney . Gables were steep but not broad ; one raking cornice of the gable often descended far below the wall line , even to ground ...
... included from one to three gables , a terrace usually on the street side , and an end - wall fireplace chimney . Gables were steep but not broad ; one raking cornice of the gable often descended far below the wall line , even to ground ...
Contents
Cladding Materials | 15 |
Roofs | 36 |
Towers Steeples Turrets | 56 |
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accent arcades arches ASHLAR bay window block boards brackets brick BUILDING TYPES built bungalow CHARACTERISTICS 2 STORIES CLADDING MATERIALS CLAPBOARD CLIPPED GABLE colonial color columns commercial buildings CORBELING corner CORNERBOARDS cornice COTTAGE WINDOW decorative DENTILS design elements door DORMER eaves END-WALL CHIMNEY entablature entrance FACADE FLARED FLAT floor frame FRIEZE front gable roof GABLED COTTAGE GAMBREL HEADER HIP ROOF HIPPED COTTAGE historic horizontal house types included interior light lintels mansard masonry ments millwork moldings motifs muntins organization ornament overall PAIRED PALLADIAN WINDOW PANEL AND GLASS PARAPET pattern pediment piers pilasters placement planes porch porch roof porte-cochere portico prairie projecting rails rowhouse rustic SASH SASH WINDOWS shape shingles sills SOMETIMES space stack STEEPLE STICKWORK stone structure stucco style SYMMETRICAL FENESTRATION tent roof terra cotta texture tion tower TRANSOM treatments TYPICAL FAĆADE usually vernacular architecture vernacular buildings vernacular design vertical visual wall wide wood