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Houses of concrete blocks simulating stone were widely advocated by early 20th-century pattern books as a novel new building method. -- "A Field Guide to American Houses"
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Ranch Houses
The Ranch style -- also known as the American Ranch, Western Ranch, or California Rambler -- is an extension in time of the bungalow, but it is an example of a bungalow designed for an upper middle class.
Gatehouse
Either a small outbuilding or a relatively large house beside a gateway to a mansion or manor house where the gatekeeper resides to allow or disallow entrance to the grounds.
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'Chattel Houses' are most often associated with the islands of the Caribbean West Indies. We recently experienced their legacy during a trip to Barbados (2007).
Glossary of House Terms
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Georgian Style Houses
An architectural style rarely lasts even close to a century, but that is the case with the Georgian style.
The main entrance to the house was facing the street, and consisting of a double-door. On passing through the door you would walk through a short passageway and enter into the atrium. The atrium is the most important part in the house.
1960s split-level house.
2. State College, PA.
3. State College, PA.
4. Downey, CA. c.1953. Two-car garage is rare this early, but it is original.
5. Durango, CO. Split-level house.
6. Wheaton, IL. Split-level house with single-car garage.
The earliest Georgian houses in the U.S. were built during the Colonial period, so it's considered a Colonial style.
house shapes
The general top view of the house outline. (Square, Rectangle, L-shaped, U-shaped, H-shaped, etc.
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Old House Styles
Antebellum, Bungalow, Craftsman Bungalow, Greek Revival, Italianate, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival
Roof Types
Gable, Hipped, Mansard, Shed, Saltbox, Pyramidal, Gambrel, Flat ...
Penthouse - A subsidiary structure with a lean-to roof; also a separately roofed structure on the roof of a high block of flats.
Blockhouse - Small square fortification, usually of timber bond overlapping arrangement of bricks in courses (flemish, dutch, french, etc.)
Bonnet - Freestanding fortification; priest's cap.
Tower-house. A tall, fortified house which was quite common from the 11th to the 13th century. It provided protection and defense for the head of important families and his supporters against enemies.
Chapter House
A special room or house where the governing body of a monastery or cathedral met. In Britain the chapter house is usually polygonal in shape with a slender central column supporting the roof.
Chapter House - administrative center of a cathedral, traditionally organized for overseeing construction.
choir - the area of the main altar where services are sung, located between the crossing and the apse.
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Chapter house
The room in a monastery or cathedral where the entire community gathered for a daily assembly.
chapter house: room for daily monastic business, in which the chapter (capitulum) of monastic rules is read.
cheek-walls: low walls protecting the flanks of a flight of steps.
prairie house - a house style associated predominantly with the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the design was influenced by the open prairie of mid-western American. The houses featured open plans with a low, horizontal emphasis.
Chapter house
a meeting place for the discussion of business in a cathedral or monastery.
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L-plan tower house - distinctive Scottish form of the tower house in which a wing was added at right angles to the main tower block
Label - projecting weather moulding above a door or window to deflect rainwater.
House with striped awnings
An awning is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building. It is typically composed of canvas or acrylic cloth that is stretched tightly over a light structure of aluminum, iron or steel or possibly wood.
House
- (Scottish) traditionally a family's rooms, what we might now call a flat in a land which would now be called a building. A tenement was an area of land.
Houses of the East African coast represent a continuous development of domestic architecture that can be traced back over 1,000 years.
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rowhouse One of a group of an unbroken line of attached houses that share common side walls, known as party walls.
rubble stone Irregularly shaped, rough-textured stone laid in an irregular manner.
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Cap-house
small chamber at the top of a spiral staircase in a tower or turret, leading to the open wall-walk on the roof
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Farmhouse floor plans are usually square or symmetrically shaped, sometimes with side wings.
Gatehouse: The structure which was used to guard the principal entrance of a fortification.
This house style originated in Normandy of France where houses and barns were attached. The central turret was used for the storage of grain or silage.
Gate House: the complex of towers, bridges, and barriers built to protect each entrance through a castle or town wall
Hall: principal living quarters of a medieval castle or house ...
Gates House, 1895, Burlington
Destroyed by fire c.1992
Architectural elements from earlier periods were used in a regimental manner. Colonial Revival buildings usually were formal and symmetrical.
Today 'house churches' are all the rage, but they aren't anything like house churches in the New Testament.
Chapter house : The administrative center or Bishop's office, attached to a cathedral, traditionally organized for the overseeing of a cathedral's construction and maintenance.
The gatehouse to the Monastery at Lorsch has long been compared with the tradition of Roman Triumphal Arches:
Lorsch Gatehouse
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Affluent house in the archaeological site. The courtyard (Qajar period)
Archaeological site: View from the barracks at the base of the Citadel (Timurid, Safavid, and Zand periods) ...
dwelling house with out-buildings and land.
Modillion
bracket under the cornice in a Classical entablature.
NATIONAL HOUSE BUILDING COUNCIL - Issues 10 year NHBC certificates.
NEWEL - Stout post supporting a staircase handrail at top and bottom. Also, the central pillar of a winding or spiral staircase.
corridor house (3)
cremation (2) -- the reduction of a corpse to ashes as a way of disposing of it (Oxford Dict.)
crucible (2) -- a vessel made to endure great heat, used for fusing metals (Oxford Dict.) ...
chapter house: A meeting place for the chapter or governing body of a monastery or a cathedral. Other parts of monastery: cloister, refectory, scriptorium.
chevron: A zig-zag motif.
Compare with lozenge. See also nailhead.
Sacrament houseSafe cupboard in a side wall of the chancel of a church and not directly associated with an altar, for reservation of the sacrament.SacristyRoom in a church for sacred vessels and vestments.Saddleback roof ...
The Japanese house developed differently from the Chinese. The Japanese express a deep poetic response to nature, and their houses are more concerned with achieving a satisfying relationship with earth, water, rocks, ...
State Bank house - House financed, designed and built by the State Savings Bank of Victoria under the Housing and Reclamation Act 1920, for its customers. G. Burridge Leith was the bank's Chief Architect. They were not built after 1939.
Air House (pneumatic structure) - A balloon structure either air-supported or air-inflated.
moss houseA Moss House is a garden building with moss pressed between the wall slats. mountA Mount is a characteristic feature of English gardens in the Middle Ages.
Some of the first houses built in the United States were Cape Cods. The original colonial Cape Cod homes were shingle-sided, one-story cottages with no dormers.
A projection on a house façade that is either curved or angular in plan and has its own windows. Used extensively in Victorian architecture.
Beam Ceiling
A ceiling punctuated by wooden beams, evenly spaced across the width of a room.
Prefabricated - A house whose substantial parts are made entirely or in sections away from the building site.
In the new opera house in Paris, J. L. Gamier (q.v.) solved the problem better by placing his staircase in a square hall, which, seen from the first floor surrounded with open balconies, forms one of the finest staircase halls known.
The buildings of worship were very strange and designed with wild creatures, and houses were built with dirt and water and a thatched roof.
Chinese architecture - The Chinese base their structures on balance and symmetry.
For example, the Muslim way of life could be seen to have influenced the design of houses: a Muslim household might wish their house interior to be private and secluded from invasive eyes and to have separate male and female sections.
In its polygonal chapter houses England developed a brilliant conception all its own, and almost the same might be said of the parish church, while in the designing of tombs, chantries, reredoses, choir-screens, and chancel-fittings of wood, ...
Split-Level - is a style of house in which the floor level of one part of the house is about half way between a floor and its ceiling of the other part of the house.
Early in history, bricks were hand-made and costly to distribute, and so only the most wealthy could afford to build their houses with them. Consequently, most of the older houses in Ashfield are constructed of the local sandstone and limestone.
Craftsman style - a small house and furniture style popular in the U.S. in the early 20th century, popularized by Gustav Stickley's magazine, The Craftsman.
'ONTARIO COTTAGE' A modern term used to describe houses in Ontario from about 1830 to about 1870 if they are built with one-and-a-half storeys and have a gable roof featuring a gable over a dormer window; the later often with a round arch; ...
Prairie style : Prairie style houses usually have these features: low-pitched roof, overhanging eaves ; horizontal lines ; central chimney ; open floor plan.
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