Architectural Housing Styles
By: Jordan Nugent
Arch
An arch is a structure that spans a space and supports structure and weight below it.
Brackets
Chair Rail
A chair rail is a type of moulding fixed horizontally to the wall around the perimeter of a room.
Chimney
Column
Corbel
Cupola
A cupola is a small, most often dome-like, structure on top of a building. Often used to provide a lookout or to admit light and air, it usually crowns a larger roof or dome.
Dormer
A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface.
Facade
Fanlight
Finial
A finial is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.
Fluting
Frieze
Lintel
Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar.
Molding
Mullions
Pediment
Pendant
Pillar
Porch
Portico
Rafters
A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members (beams) that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate.