Identifying American Architecture: A Pictorial Guide to Styles and Terms, 1600-1945 |
Contents
Foreword by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner | 52 |
Preface | 60 |
Dutch Colonial | 85 |
Copyright | |
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1817 LIBRARIES Arcaded architecture Architrave Architrave trim Archivolt ashlar ashlar finish Attic story balconet balcony Balustrade beams Belt course Board and batten brackets capitals casement windows Casement-type window Cavetto chimney pots Colonial Revival columns Corbeled corner coursed ashlar Cross gable decorative dentils dormer enriched entablature facade finial flared eaves Flemish bond floor foliated frieze gable Gable end gambrel roof glass Gothic Revival HABS highlighted Hip knob hip roof Hood mold horizontal Impost Lintel-type lonic Order Low pitch Mansard roof Metal MICHIGAN modillions octagon ornamentation panels parapet pattern pavilion Pedimented pent piers pilasters pitched gable roof porch posts portico projecting eaves quoins rafters rail Raised basement Renaissance Revival Richardsonian Romanesque Rock-faced Roman Doric Romanesque Round arch Rusticated sash sill single-light slate tiles slopes spandrel steeply pitched string course stucco tall terra cotta tower tracery Transom Triglyph Tudor arch Tuscan Order UNIV vertical volutes window opening Wood shingles