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Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
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A
Abacus

Acanthus

Acroterion

Adam style


Ambulatory

American bond

Anchor

Ancone


Andiron

Anthemion


Applied composition

Apse

Arcade

Arch

Arch brace

Architrave

Art Deco

Art glass

Art Moderne

Art Nouveau

Arts and Crafts style

Ashlar

Astragal

Atlantes

B
Balconet

Balloon framing

Baluster


Balustrade

Banded column

Banded pilaster

Banding


Band window

Bargeboard


Baroque Revival

Barrel Ceiling

Barrel Roof

Barrel Vault


Base

Basilica

Basket arch

Basket-handle arch

Basket weave

Bas-relief

Batten

Batter

Battlement

Bay

Bay leaf

Bay window

Bead-and-reel

Beaux Arts Style

Belfry

Bell gable

Bellied balconet

Bell roof

Belvedere

Beltcourse

Bethune
, Louise Blanchard

Blind arcade

Blind arch

Block modillion

Board and batten

Bond (bricks)

Boss

Bow window

Bracket

Bricks


Broken pediment

Brutalism

Building Materials

Bull's-eye window

Bungalow style

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward

Burnham, D. H.


Buttress

Byzantine Revival style
C
Cable molding

Caduceus

Caisson

Came


Canted

Capital


Campanile

Cartouche

Cary, George

Caryatid

Casement window

Castellations

Cavetto


Cavity-wall

Cell

Celtic cross

Cenotaph

Chamfer

Chancel

Chapel

Chateauesque

Chevron

Chicago window

Chimney breast

Chimney cap

Chimney hood

Chimneypiece

Chimney pot

Chippendale

Churches in Buffalo

Churches - vocabulary

Cinquefoil

Classical Revival

Clearstory

Clerestory

Clipped gable

Clustered column

Coffering

Coin

Collar beam

Collar tie


Colonnade

Colonial Revival

Colossal order

Column

Common bond

Composite

Compound arches

Concrete


Concrete Block Houses

Conical roof

Console

Coquillage

Corbel

Corbel table

Corinthian order

Corner block

Cornice

Course

Coursed rubble

Craftsman style

Crenelation

Creo-Dipt shingles

Crest

Crocket

Croset

Crossing

Crown molding

Cruciform

Cupola

Cushion capital

Cusps

Cyclopean masonry


D
Daub

Dentil


Diaper pattern

Dog grate

Dome

Doric order


Dormer

Downing, Andrew Jackson

Dressed

Dripstone

Drop


Dutch gable

E
Ear

Eastlake
style


Eaves

Echinus


Ecole Des Beaux Arts

Egg-and-dart

Egyptian cornice

Egyptian Revival

Elbow

Elliptical arch

Empire style

Engaged


Entablature

Entasis

Esenwein, August

Eyebrow window
F

Façade

Fanlight


Faux

Federal style

Festoon


Finial

Fireback

Firedog

Fireplace (terms)

Fireproof houses


Fire screen

Flemish bond

Fleur-de-lis


Fleuron

Fluting

Flying Buttress

Foil

Foliate

French Renaissance Revival

Fresco

Fret

Frieze

Furniture Glossary

G
Gable


Gable roof

Gable window

Gallery

Gambrel roof


Gargoyle

Garland

Georgian Revival

Gibbs surround

Gingerbread

Glaze

Glazing

Gorge cornice

Gothic arch


Gothic Revival

Gougework

Grate

Grisaille

Greek key


Greek Revival

Green, Edward B.

Groin vault/arch

Guilloche

Gustavino tiles

Gutta

H
Half-timber

Hammer beam

Harvard bricks

Hearth

Hepplewhite, George

Hexagonal Roof


Hipped gable

Hipped Roof

Honeysuckle

Hoodmold

Hook and Hastings

I
Icon

Indiana Limestone

International style

Ionic order

Italianate style

J
Jamb

Jeffersonian Classicism

Jerkinhead


Johnson, James

Jetty

K
Kent, Edward

Key pattern

Keystone

King post

Knee brace

Kowsky, Francis R.

L
Label mold(ing)

Label stop

LaFarge, John

Lalli, Dr. V. Roger

Lancet Window

Lantern

Lattice window

Leaf-and-dart


L'Ecole Des Beaux Arts

Lights


Lintel

Lockport Dolomite

Lucarne

Lug

Lunette (window)

Lyman, Duane

M
Mansard roof

Mantel

Mantelpiece

Masonry (terms)


Mausoleum

McIntire, Samuel

McKim, Mead and White

Meander

Medallion

Medina sandstone


Memorial arch

Metope


Moderne


Modillion

Morris, William

Mosaic


Muntin

Multifoil

Mutule
N
Narthex


Nave

Neoclassical (American)

Neoclassical (European)

Newel

Nicking

Nogging

Norman

Notch carving

Nunda Blue Sandstone

O
Octagon House

Oculus (window)

Oeil-de-boeuf window

Ogee arch

Olmsted, Frederick Law

Onondaga limestone

Opalescent glass

Open-bed pediment

Open-topped pediment

Order

Oriel window

Overmantel

Oxeye (window)


P
Palladian window

Palladio, Andrea

Palmette

Pane

Parapet


Parlor

Parquet

Patera


Pavilion


Pebbledash

Pediment

Pediment roof

Pendant

Pendentive

Period Houses / Period Revival


Peristyle

Pilaster

Pinnacle

Plinth

Pocket doors

Pointed arch

Portal

Porte-cochere

Porter, Cyrus K.

Portico


Post-and-lintel system

Prairie style

Purlin

Pyramidal roof

Q
Quarry-faced

Quatrefoil

Queen Anne style

Queen post

Quoins

R

Rafter

Raking cornice


Ranch

Reed(ing)

Renaissance Revival


Restauration style

Rib


Ribbed vault

Ribbon window

Richardson, H. H.

Richardsonian Romanesque

Ridge

Rinceau


Rococo

Rollwork

Roman brick

Roman Classicism

Roman Doric

Romanesque Revival

Rood

Roof framing

Roof styles

Rope molding

Rose window


Rosette

Roundel

Round pediment

Roycroft

Rumsey, Charles Cary

Running dog

Running mold

Running ornament

Rusticated
S
Saint Gaudens, Augustus

Sanctuary


Scroll

Sears Catalog Homes

Second Empire Style

Segmental arch

Segmental pediment


Serliana

Sexfoil

Shaw, Richard Norman

Shed roof

Sheet metal

Sheraton, Thomas

Shingle style


Shoulder

Shreadhead

Side aisle

Sideboard

Side light

Silsbee. Joseph Lyman

Slip

Soffit

Spandrel

Spandrel panel

Spanish Eclectic

Spire

Splayed lintel

S scroll

Stained glass

Stair-end

Steeple

Stick Style

Strapwork

Stringcourse


Sullivan, Louis

Surround

Swag

Swan's neck pediment

T
Tent roof

Terminus


Terra cotta

Through-the-cornice dormer

Tie beam

Tie rod

Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Torsade

Trabeated system

Tracery


Transept

Transom light

Tread-end

Trefoil

Triforium

Triglyph
s

Triumphal arch

Truss

Tudor arch

Tudor Revival

Turret

Tuscan

Twisted column

Tympanum

U

Urn

V
Vault

Venetian arch

Venetian window

Vergeboard

Vermiculated

Vestibule

Victorian styles

Vitruvian scroll

Vitruvian wave


Volute

Voussoir

W
Wainscoting

Waterleaf


Water table

Wattle

Wave scroll

Wicks, William Sydney

Wheel Window

White, Stanford

Window

Window cap


Window head


Wood

Wright, Frank Lloyd

X

Y

Z
Zigzag

Zinc


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