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Architectural Features
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ROOF STYLES Flat Roof Gable Roof Gambrel Roof Hip Roof Mansard Roof
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FLAT ROOF A flat roof is a type of covering for a building. In contrast to the more sloped form of roof, a flat roof is horizontal or nearly horizontal.
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GABLE ROOF Gabled roofs are the kind young children typically draw. They have two sloping sides that come together at a ridge, creating end walls with a triangular extension, called a gable, at the top.
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GAMBREL ROOF Dutch Colonial Often called a barn roof
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HIP ROOF A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.
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MANSARD ROOF Variation of the Gambrel Roof and often has dormers
This type of roof has two slopes on all sides, with a steep lower slope and a flat upper slope A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper
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Architectural Elements
Clapboard, also known as bevel siding or lap siding or weatherboard (with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms), is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house by installing long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall.
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Victorian Architectural Elements
Gingerbread Turret
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Architectural Elements
Ell / Lean To - a small and usually roughly made building that is built on the side of a larger building
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Architectural Elements
A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows. Dormers
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Greek Revival Architectural Elements
Pediment & Portico in architecture, triangular gable forming the end of the roof slope over a portico (the area, with a roof supported by columns, leading to the entrance of a building); or a similar form used decoratively over a doorway or window. The pediment was the crowning feature of the Greek temple front.
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Greek Revival Architectural Elements
pilaster Used to give the look of a support column
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Architectural Elements
Fanlight A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars radiating out like an open fan. It is placed over another window or a doorway, and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst. It is also called a "sunburst light".
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