Building Terms
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style by Porch
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abacus
acanthus
accolade
acropodium
acroterion
addorsed
affronted
agraffe
animals
apex
applique
apse
arabesque
arcade
arch
architrave
Art Deco
awning
balcony
baluster
balustrade
band
banding
bargeboard
Baroque
barrel vault
base
battlement
bay window
beam
belvedere
blind arch
boss
bracket
broken pediment
buttress
campanile
canopy
cantilever
capital
caprice
Carpenter's Gothic
cartouche
caryatid
castellation
ceiling
chateau
chimney
cincture
clerestory
clock
clocktower
coffer
colonette
colonnade
column
composite
corbel
corbiestep
corner
cornice
cornice bracket
cornice return
courtyard
crenelation
crest
cupola
dentil
dichromatic
dichromatic brick
dome
door
doorknocker
door surround
doorway
Doric Order
dormer
drip mold
echinus
egg-and-dart
engaged column
entablature
entrance
exedra
exterior
extrados
façade
fanlight
fenestration
finial
fireplace
fish scale shingles
flute
flying buttress
fortress
fountain
fractable
French door
fresco
fret
frieze
frontispiece
gable
gallery
garden
gargoyle
garland
gatehouse
gateway
gazebo
Georgian
gingerbread
Gothic
Gothic arch
Gothic cottage
Greek
grille
groin
grotesque
guilloche
guttae
half-timbered
hinge
hood mold
impost
intrados
Ionic Order
iron cresting
jamb
keystone
kneestone
label stop
lancet arch
lantern
lintel
lunette
machicolation
Mansard roof
mantel
metope
minaret
modillion
molding
mosaic
mullion
muntin
nave
niche
ogee arch
oriel window
overhang
palazzo
Palladian window
parapet
pediment
pendentive
pilaster
pillar
portal
portico
Post Modern
quatrefoil
quoin
railing
rampart
relief
Renaissance
reveal
rib
Roman architecture
Romanesque
roof
rose window
rotunda
roundel
rowhouse
rustication
sash
scalloping
scotia
shaft
shingle
shutter
signage
sill
soffit
spandrel
spire
spring
stained glass
stair
tower
tracery
transom
trefoil
triglyph
trompe l'oiel
Tudor
turret
tympanum
vault
Venetian Gothic
veranda
vergeboard
vernacular
volute
voussoir
window
window frame
window surround
ziggurat
over room