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Sill The flat horizontal bottom piece of a window or door, often of wood, but sometimes of stone. Semi-Elliptical Arch A elongated round arch over a window or door. Segmental Arch A slightly rounded arch over a window or door. Round Arch A semicircular arch over a window or door. Quoins Quoins are decorative rectangles or squares of stone, brick, wood or concrete, placed at the corners of buildings to add architectural interest. Porch A roofed space outside the mains support walls of a building. Pointed Arch An arch with a strong center point, usually seen in Gothic Revival style buildings.

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Pilaster A pilaster is a narrowly protruding column attached to a wall, giving the illusion of a real free standing support column. Pilar A support column without classical detailing.

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Pent Roof A narrow shed style roof placed above the first floor of a building to protect the doors, windows and lower walls, often covering all four sides of the building. Pendant An ornamental piece of wood or metal hanging down from a porch, cornice or bracket. Pediment A triangular space created by a front facing gable roof, often seen in Classical Revivial style buildings. A crenelated parapet has rhythmic breaks in the wall to create a pattern of battlements. Parapet A parapet is a low stone or brick wall at the top of a building. Palladian Window A three-part, round-arched window, named for the 15th century Italian architect Andreas Palladino, also known as a Venetian Window and common in the Georgian and Colonial Revival styles. Oriel Window A projecting bay window supported by brackets or a triangual support piece. Ogee Arch A center pointed arch with reverse curve sides, often seen on Exotic Moorish Revival style buildings. Mullions The wooden divisions between panes of glass on windows.

Mortar A mixture of sand, water, lime and cement used to lay bricks, stone, tile or concrete block. Molding A decorative raised surface along the edge of an architectural feature such as a window, column, door or wall. Masonry A type of construction using stone, brick, tile or concrete block using mortar. Lintel The flat horizontal piece at the top of a window. Frieze A frieze is the panel beneath the cornice at the top of a building' exterior wall which is often ornamented with brackets, dentils or modallions. Fluting Fluting is a decorative finish for wooden columns or trim where parallel grooves are carved vertically along the surface. Floor Plan The layout of the various levels of a building, showing the location of rooms, interior walls, chimneys, porches and staircases. Used as a decorative embellishment in Victorian era styles in the USA. Flemish Gable A decorative gable form ,often seen in Flanders and the Netherlands, the sides of which drop in a cascade of right angles, also called a crow-stepped gable. Finial A decorative piece set atop a spire, cupola, gable or gate post. Fenestration Pattern The arrangement of windows across the facade of a building. Fanligh A semi-circular (fan shaped) window placed atop a door, commonly seen in Federal and Colonial Revival style buildings. Facade The face of a building, usually referring to the front. Eyelid Dormer A half-elliptical decorative window placed in the roof surface, resembling the shape of an eye. Column A support pillar, usually round, found on porches and as a decorative detail.Įaves The edge of the roof that overhangs the exterior walls, sometimes with exposed rafters. Clapboard A narrow wooden board, thinner at one edge than the other, applied horizontally to the exterior walls of buildings to form a weather-tight wall surface. Certain vernacular folk building patterns locate the chimney at the center of the house or at the corner. Chimneys Chimneys are usually built of stone or brick (more modern chimneys may be of cinder block) and are located at either the exterior side walls of the building or at the center or interior of the building.

Chair Rail A chair rail is decorative wooden trim attached horizontally at the approximate height of the back of a straight chair. Buttress A wall support usually of stone or brick placed at the sides of a building, commonly seen on some Gothic Revival style churches. Bulkhead A bulkhead is a set of metal door providing an outdoor entrance to the cellar. They may be incised into a scrolled patten or be more simply molded and are common to all Italinate style buildings, but often appear with other styles as well. Brackets Ornamental supports, usually of wood or pressed metal, which appear at the cornice line of a building. Board and Batten A construction method for doors or walls in which the wood is arranged in vertical boards and held in place with a horizontal board called a batten. Belfry A small square bell tower placed atop a roof to house a bell, often found on churches and schools.