The Architect, or Practical House Carpenter (1830)The superbly illustrated and detailed handbook that popularized the use of classic Greek architectural style in America in the early and middle 1800s. 271 illustrations. |
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abacus ancient annulets antique arch architect architecture architrave architrave with three astragal Athens Attic base balusters BASE MOULDINGS beam beautiful bed-mould breadth building capital centre circle columns composed Composite order Corinthian order cornice corona cutting cymatium decorations dentils diameter distance divided by mouldings door Doric order draw lines drawn echinus edge edifices employed entablature equal example face mould feet fillet flutes frieze front Grecian Doric Greek half minutes height imitation inches intercolumniation Ionic joists king post metopes Minerva Polias modillions mutules ornament ovolo panel parallel pedestals pediment pilasters pitch board placed plain PLATE plinth portico projection proportions rail right angles Rome roof scroll shaft shows side soffit spiral square stair temple of Jupiter Temple of Minerva theatre of Marcellus three fascia timbers torus triglyphs Tuscan order upper vertical Vignola Vitruvius volute width