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FRENCH WINDOW A window that opens to the floor in two hinged parts.
FRIEZE The portion of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice: a decorative band.
FRONTISPIECE The principal bay of a building.
French window
- side hung casements, which are carried down to floor level and open as doors.
FRENCH WINDOW
Pair of identical casement windows with no dividing mullion.
FRETWORK
Intricate cutouts in a panel or other decorative element.
The tent-shaped verandah roof flanked by two shuttered French windows identifies the style. The verandah once bordered the house on three sides, but has since been reduced, allowing us to see the architraves on the casement windows.
Most French Provincial houses have these features:
French windows or shutters
high, steep hipped or gable roof
balanced appearance windows
second-story windows break through the cornice
expensive materials used: copper, slate, brick ...
371 Depew Ave. - Palladian French windows (doors)
90 Lincoln Pkwy
460 Norwood Avenue "rainbow" ...
facet, fan, fanlight, fantail, fan tracery, fan or palm vaulting, fascia or facia, fascial or facial, fenestella, fenestra, festoon, fillet or listel, finial, flèche, fluting, flying buttress or arc-boutant, foil, footing, footstall, French windows ...
Window - Two casement sashes, each hinged on one stile and opening in the middle with no center mull but with a half lap connection. This allows a smaller rough opening to make egress since there is a large unobstructed opening. French windows are ...
 See also: House, Casement, Member, Ornament, Gable
  
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