Architectural Housing Styles
Rachel Larsen
Arch
a curved symmetrical structure spanning an opening and typically supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it.
Brackets
- a right-angled support attached to and projecting from a wall for holding a shelf, lamp, or other object.
Buttress
a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall
Chair Rail
a molding on an interior wall for preventing the backs of chairs from rubbing against plaster.
Chimney
- a vertical channel or pipe that conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building.
Column
an upright pillar, typically cylindrical and made of stone or concrete, supporting an entablature, arch, or other structure or standing alone as a monument
Column Capital
- a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces.
Dormer
Also called dormer window. a vertical window in a projection built out from a sloping roof.
Eaves
- the part of a roof that meets or overhangs the walls of a building.
Facade
the face of a building, especially the principal front that looks onto a street or open space
Fanlight
- a small semicircular or rectangular window over a door or another window.
Finial
- a distinctive ornament at the apex of a roof, pinnacle, canopy, or similar structure in a building.
Floor Plan
- a scale diagram of the arrangement of rooms in one story of a building.
Frieze
- a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.
Lintel
- a horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window.
Masonry
stonework
Molding
- an ornamentally shaped outline as an architectural feature, especially in a cornice.
Mullions
a vertical bar between the panes of glass in a window
Parapet
- a low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony.
Pediment
the triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical style, typically surmounting a portico of columns
Pendant
an ornament suspended from a roof, vault, or ceiling.
Pillar
- a tall vertical structure of stone, wood, or metal, used as a support for a building, or as an ornament or monument.
Portico
- a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns at regular intervals, typically attached as a porch to a building.
Quoins
- an external angle of a wall or building.
Rafter
- one of several internal beams extending from the eaves to the peak of a roof and constituting its framework.
Roof
- the structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle.
Sill
a shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window or doorway
Stoop
- a porch with steps in front of a house or other building.
Stucco
- fine plaster used for coating wall surfaces or molding into architectural decorations.
Tower
- a tall narrow building, either freestanding or forming part of a building such as a church or castle.
Transom Light
a crosspiece separating a door or the like from a window or fanlight above it.
Wainscot
wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.