American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated GlossaryVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 - 270 pages |
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... appear near the top of a wall but below the cornice . In vernacular building , a frieze may be part of the ornamentation , in that it may have a decorated face or support other decoration . A bed molding is used where the eaves of a ...
... appear near the top of a wall but below the cornice . In vernacular building , a frieze may be part of the ornamentation , in that it may have a decorated face or support other decoration . A bed molding is used where the eaves of a ...
Page 224
... appear . It was a five- or six - room house that had an intersecting gable roof , with the first gable parallel to the street , covering the two front rooms , and the second roof perpendicular to the street , covering the remaining ...
... appear . It was a five- or six - room house that had an intersecting gable roof , with the first gable parallel to the street , covering the two front rooms , and the second roof perpendicular to the street , covering the remaining ...
Page 227
... appear to be blocks from which arches , openings for fenestration , and the like have been carved . Detailing follows a general Spanish vocabulary , although Spanish colonial motifs proliferate , including ex- posed wood ( especially ...
... appear to be blocks from which arches , openings for fenestration , and the like have been carved . Detailing follows a general Spanish vocabulary , although Spanish colonial motifs proliferate , including ex- posed wood ( especially ...
Contents
Cladding Materials | 9 |
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 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 pattern pediment piers pilasters placement planes porch PORCH ROOF porte-cochere portico prairie projecting Queen Anne rails rowhouse rustic SASH SASH WINDOWS shape shingles side elevations sills SOMETIMES space stack STEEPLE STICKWORK stone 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