Millwork - The finished wood portions of a building which are customarily obtained from a planing mill, such as doors, window and door frames, sash, pane-work, etc.
Millwork Finished woodwork, cabinetry, carving, etc. Molding Shaped decorative outlines on projecting cornices and members in wood and stone.
Millwork - Finished woodwork, cabinetry, carving, etc. Modillion - A bracket supporting the upper part of a composite or Corinthian cornice.
The influence of English romanticism and the mass production of elaborate wooden millwork after the Industrial Revolution fueled the construction of Gothic Revival homes in the mid-1800s.
Along with porch parts, decorative staircase parts were among the many millwork items mass-produced and sold by catalog by the 1850s.
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flourished with new technologies and the expanding railroad transportation network, the elaborate Queen Anne style became quite popular. Factories were mass-producing an array of building materials including the lavish fringe and wooden millwork.
See also: Brick, Architecture, House, Gable, Ornament
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