American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated GlossaryVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 - 270 pages |
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... built , then taken apart , numbered , and lettered , and shipped on three - master schooners around Cape Horn to northern California . But the railroad was the real key to the distribution of vernacular goods . It was the railroad that ...
... built , then taken apart , numbered , and lettered , and shipped on three - master schooners around Cape Horn to northern California . But the railroad was the real key to the distribution of vernacular goods . It was the railroad that ...
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... built as single - family residences ; they were built on open homestead land , on narrow railroad lots , on boulevards and crowded city streets . They were built individually as speculation houses or as commissions ; in groups as small ...
... built as single - family residences ; they were built on open homestead land , on narrow railroad lots , on boulevards and crowded city streets . They were built individually as speculation houses or as commissions ; in groups as small ...
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... built to throw off wa- ter are called dripstones , hoodmolds , or weather molds . Spe- cial sills include the slip sill , which lines up evenly with the window casing , has no projections or lugs , and is not built into the masonry ...
... built to throw off wa- ter are called dripstones , hoodmolds , or weather molds . Spe- cial sills include the slip sill , which lines up evenly with the window casing , has no projections or lugs , and is not built into the masonry ...
Contents
Cladding Materials | 9 |
Roofs | 36 |
Towers Steeples Turrets | 56 |
Copyright | |
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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