American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940: An Illustrated GlossaryVan Nostrand Reinhold, 1985 - 270 pages |
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... house types , some attention has been given to com- mercial and public buildings . Only building types for which enough information existed to make a case have been in- cluded . Individual structures and categories of buildings , such ...
... house types , some attention has been given to com- mercial and public buildings . Only building types for which enough information existed to make a case have been in- cluded . Individual structures and categories of buildings , such ...
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... types . The concept of organicism was based on the conceptual ap- proach that designers and builders took toward a group of house types all characterized by a strong feeling for centrality . In some cases the centrality came from a ...
... types . The concept of organicism was based on the conceptual ap- proach that designers and builders took toward a group of house types all characterized by a strong feeling for centrality . In some cases the centrality came from a ...
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... houses with vestibules included them within the volume of the house . In a number of twentieth - century designs - especially English cottage types and the colonial revival houses referred to as Cape Cod - the vestibule projects from ...
... houses with vestibules included them within the volume of the house . In a number of twentieth - century designs - especially English cottage types and the colonial revival houses referred to as Cape Cod - the vestibule projects from ...
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 FAĆADE usually vernacular architecture vernacular buildings vernacular design vertical visual wall wide wood