American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated GlossaryVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 - 270 pages |
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... Architects Small House Bureau ( an architect - sponsored , Minnesota - based organization ) ; pub- lications such as the " how to build your own home " books , and the trade catalogs of the hundreds of companies that produced VII ...
... Architects Small House Bureau ( an architect - sponsored , Minnesota - based organization ) ; pub- lications such as the " how to build your own home " books , and the trade catalogs of the hundreds of companies that produced VII ...
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... architect - designed high style , and vernacular — that embraces an entire society . We have generated what Amos Rapoport describes as a form of design that is both product and process . Seen this way , vernacular design had a " poly ...
... architect - designed high style , and vernacular — that embraces an entire society . We have generated what Amos Rapoport describes as a form of design that is both product and process . Seen this way , vernacular design had a " poly ...
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... architect - designed . Railroad stations , both freight and passenger , usually were designed buildings : specific rail companies commissi- oned firms to design buildings that could be replicated throughout their system . Some companies ...
... architect - designed . Railroad stations , both freight and passenger , usually were designed buildings : specific rail companies commissi- oned firms to design buildings that could be replicated throughout their system . Some companies ...
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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 PARAPET pattern pediment piers pilasters placement planes porch porch roof PORTE-COCHERE portico prairie projecting rails rowhouse rustic SASH SASH WINDOWS shape shingles side elevations sills SOMETIMES space stack STEEPLE STICKWORK stone stretchers structure stucco style SYMMETRICAL FENESTRATION tent roof terra cotta texture tion tower TRANSOM treatments TYPICAL FAÇADE usually vernacular architecture vernacular buildings vernacular design vertical visual wall wide wood