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Oriel An oriel is a bay window that projects from an upper floor of a building. This example is from a house on Fifty-Fourth Street in New York. C. C. Haight, Architect.... |
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Pedestal The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like.... |
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Pillar An illustration of a pillar.... |
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Pillars A pier or column to support an arch, a roof, a statue, or the like.... |
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Poppy Head An ornament carved on the raised ends of seats or benches.... |
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Post, Queen One of the suspending posts in the framed principal of a roof, or in a trussed partition or other truss, when there are two such posts. ... |
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Propylon A monumental gateway, usually between two towers in outline like truncated pyramids. ... |
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Pseudisodomon A type of masonry in which the courses differ as to the height, length, or thickness of their stones. ... |
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Pulpit A pulpit (from Latin pulpitum "scaffold", "platform", "stage") is a small elevated platform from which a member of the clergy delivers a sermon in a house of worship.... |
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Quadrangle A space on a college or university campus usually but not always enclosed on four sides by buildings, although this enclosing may be more or less loosely defines.... |
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Quatrefoil In architecture, a piercing or panel divided by cusps or foliations into four leaves, or more correctly the leaf shaped figure formed by the cusps. It is supposed to represent the four leaves of a cr... |
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Quay Wall An illustration of a quay wall located in New York. A quay, pronounced 'key', is a wharf or bank where ships and other vessels are loaded. A quay may be constructed parallel or perpendicular to the b... |
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Roof, Conical A roof in the shape of a cone. ... |
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Roof, French A roof with almost vertical sides. ... |
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Roof, Gable A type of roof. ... |
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Roof, King Post A type of roof with many support beams. ... |
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Roof, Mansard A roof with 2 slopes on all 4 sides. The lower slope is almost vertical and the upper slop is almost horizontal. ... |
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Roof, Ogee A type of roof. ... |
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Roof, Shed A type of roof. ... |
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Sectional Elevation A blueprint showing the sectional elevation of a house.... |
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Segmental Arch "Segmental arch, where the center is below the springing." — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... |
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Semicircular Arch "Semicircular arch, he center of which is in the same line with its springers." — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... |
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Skew Arch "Skew Arch."-Whitney, 1902... |
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Spire A spire is a steeple that diminishes as it ascends.... |
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Steps, Corbel Steps in which the sides of gables from the eaves to the apex. ... |
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