American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated GlossaryVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 - 270 pages |
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... designs of industrially produced houses , we found that the elements of design and the building types had been included in the examples given in the handbook . This is because the industrial housing manufacturers , whether selling ...
... designs of industrially produced houses , we found that the elements of design and the building types had been included in the examples given in the handbook . This is because the industrial housing manufacturers , whether selling ...
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... design . Through the glossary , through the discussions of the implications for design of manufactured elements , and through the classification of design types , we hope to make a contribution to the developing literature on American ...
... design . Through the glossary , through the discussions of the implications for design of manufactured elements , and through the classification of design types , we hope to make a contribution to the developing literature on American ...
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... design elements were necessary : a second - story overhang that invoked the eighteenth - century New England house with an overhang and pendants . The house illustrated also carries wall dormers that curiously suggest the gables of New ...
... design elements were necessary : a second - story overhang that invoked the eighteenth - century New England house with an overhang and pendants . The house illustrated also carries wall dormers that curiously suggest the gables of New ...
Contents
Cladding Materials | 15 |
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 INTERSECTING GABLE 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 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 FAĆADE usually vernacular architecture vernacular buildings vernacular design vertical visual wall wide wood