Pilasters, sidelights, and other Georgian and Federal Style refinements decorate this historic Cape Cod home in Sandwich, New Hampshire.
Cape Cod With Pilasters
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pilasters:
a rectangular column with a capital and base set into a wall as an ornamental motif
podii:
a low wall serving as a foundation ...
pilasters - A decorative, rectangular column attached to a wall, often so as to resemble a classical column.
plancier - The exposed underside of a projecting member (soffit)
porte-cochere - A covered entrance over a driveway ...
Pilasters - First Unitarian Church / Title Guarantee Building -
Pilasters -Reffett House, Town of Springwater, NY
Pilasters -Privy, Cobblestone Museum Society, Town of Childs, NY
Pedimented gables (some are broken pediments): ...
PILASTERSflattened column-like feature set against corners of house for stability or decoration. Also called "corner" boards.
PORTICOporch with columns and pediment ...
column, pilasters, and arcades.
main section is bracketed by narrower end bays, more of less of equal height.
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Simplified pilasters, usually applied to the ends of the enclosing walls of a portico (called in antis).Antefixae
Ornaments projecting at regular intervals above a Greek cornice, originally to conceal the ends of roof tiles.Anthemion ...
Pilaster: Pilasters are two-dimensional (flat) ornaments which represent columns. They occur very commonly in 18th- and 19th-century door surrounds.
Bay - A principal area or division in the architectural arrangement of a building- The divisions may be marked by fenestration, buttresses or pilasters in elevation; or roof structure in plan.
The Doric engaged pilasters holding the portico on the building side are also fluted but otherwise unadorned and very imposing. The Georgian style was one of substance and solidity.
[From Latin antae, pilasters.]
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plan of the Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi, Greece ...
In the château of Meillant (1503) the chimney shafts are decorated with angle buttresses, niches and canopies, in the late Flamboyant style; and at Chambord and Blois they are carved with pilasters and niches with panelling above, ...
Pilasters to sides of doors (may have pediment)
Classical one or two story columns
Full-height entry porch(commonly with pediment)
Early classical revival house plans are rare in its existance today and is located mainly in the southern states.
The Florentine architect Leon Battista Alberti, in his design for the Palazzo Rucellai (1446-1451), incorporated three superimposed classical orders into the façade, much as in the Roman Colosseum, except that he used pilasters instead of ...
It consists of a central light with semicircular arch over, carried on an impost consisting of a small entablature, under which, and enclosing two other lights, one on each side, are pilasters.
An architectural structure supported by columns or pilasters. The classical elements of an arch are: 1) intrados - the underside or soffit of an arch; 2) keystone - a central wedge-shaped block in the upper curved section; 3) extrados - the outer ...
On the first level Doric columns, on the second Ionic, on the third Corinthian and the top story has Corinthian pilasters.
Classical detailing--columns, pilasters, heavily molded wooden entablatures (horizontal trim under roofs and over doors), and pediments--defines the style in houses, churches, stores, and other public buildings.
To support the great nave arches, pilasters were of course attached to the nave face of the pier, and these, as well as the aisle pilasters, were made semicircular in plan.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Renaissance-inspired classical symmetry, two rooms deep, two rooms high (Four over Four plan), central or end chimneys, classical detailing, transom lights, pilasters around door.
An ædicular frame treats a window or a niche in a section of wall as if it were a building, sometimes with columns or pilasters flanking the opening, which support an architrave or a pediment or an arched rib vault.
The outer walls of the temenos still survive and are distinguished as large blocks of dressed masonry with pilasters set at intervals into the side.
The typical shopfront consists of a framework of vertical elements either in the form of columns or pilasters, surmounted by an entablature which frequently consisits soley of a fascia board, ...
A paneled front door was most often centered, accented by decorative pilasters and crowned with a pedimented entablature. A transom light could be found either above the door or within the top of the door.
giant order: columns or pilasters rising from the ground floor through more than one storey.
groin vault: a vault caused by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults, the edges meeting in a cross.
Entablature - a lintel-like feature supported by columns or pilasters and usually placed over a doorway or window.
Fillet - a thin, horizontal band in a straight profile, usually found on a cornice, architrave, or entablature, for decoration.
AEDICULE An architectural surround, consisting usually of two columns or pilasters supporting a pediment. Literally means 'little building'. The Church of St.
a portico with two (round) columns between (square) pilasters.
Doric
an Order in architecture comprising a column, fluted shaft and plain capital but with no base.
Astylar - Facade without columns or pilasters
Atrium - (plural: atria) inner court of a Roman or C20 house; in a multi-storey building, a toplit covered court rising through all storeys.
Pilasters and architectural pillars enrich a room to its full elegance. The Corinthian column is highly recommended when looking for the perfect upgrade or perfect design to represent a highly sophisticated home.
A structural support in the form of a pier or large column that has several engaged shafts or pilasters that are attached to it on one or all sides. It is especially characteristic of Gothic architecture. Also known as a compound pier.
Choir of St. Lazare showing the articulation of the nave wall with classicizing pilasters and arcades. Capitals are variations of Corinthian capitals.
An opening or shrine, often containing a statue, framed by a pair of pilasters or columns placed against a wall.
AISLE ...
(a) a small building used as a shrine; (b) a niche designed to hold a statue. Both types are formed by two columns or pilasters supporting a gable or pediment.
Aerial (or atmospheric) perspective ...
Monumental classical ornamentation, including balconies, colossal columns, pronounced cornices, balustrades, decorated pilasters
Grand stairways of marble with wrought-iron railings, designed for theatrical entrances at social events ...
Palladian window - a window of large size, characteristic of neoclassical styles, divided by columns or piers, resembling pilasters, into three lights, the middle one of which is wider and taller than the others, and is roundheaded.
Fluting - Narrow vertical grooves on shafts of columns and pilasters.
Distyle in antis - In classical architecture, a Portico with two columns between pilasters or antae.
Palladian window A three-part window opening with a tall, round-arched center window flanked by smaller rectangular windows and separated by posts or pilasters.
pilaster : A pilaster is a rectangular support which resembles a flat column. The pilaster projects only slightly from the wall, and has a base, a shaft, and a capital. Greek Revival homes often have pilasters.
design, beginning in Italy during the 14th century and continuing to spread throughout Europe until the 17th century. Design is simple in structure with a generous use of classical ornament, such as the acanthus leaf, animal forms, and pilasters.
Palladio's plan for the Church of Il Redentore (begun 1577) in Venice involved using two sets of superimposed orders (columns and pilasters) on the facade, a treatment that became important in the 17th century.
Lombard band A decorative feature of some Romanesque architecture, originating in Lombardy, consisting of a row of small blind arches divided by vertical pilasters. louver (spelled louvre in British English).
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