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afong: A Bontoc dwelling, in the Philippine Islands.
almshouse: A building for the reception and maintenance of the indigent.
amphithalamos: In an ancient Roman house, a chamber opposite the main bedchamber and separated from it by a passageway.
apartment block: A British term for an apartment tower.
apartment building: A building containing a number of apartment units.
apartment hotel: A building intended to be occupied in separate apartments; especially in American cities since 1870, a home for independent housekeeping by generally more than two families… Low-priced apartments are frequently called flats.
apartment house: American term for a block of flats, or building containing multiple dwelling units with a common entrance and services.
apartment: A suite of rooms. 2. A dwelling unit of a multi-family house.
attegia: A Moorish hut made of reeds and thatch.
backhouse: A building subsidiary to another and standing behind it; especially, in the United States, a privy, when separate from the residence.
back-house: Part of a house or building lying behind, usually subsidiary to the front or main part, or forming an appendage. 2. Brew- or bake-house. 3. Privy, separated from the main building.
bagnio: A bathing establishment. 2. A brothel. 3. A Turkish prison.
bahay: A Philippine Islands dwelling.
bank house: A house with the gable end built in to a bank slope.
bark house: A house with bark covering and wood poles.
barrabkie: An Eskimo hut.
bastel: Mid 16th to mid-17th c. fortified farmhouse, with accommodation for livestock on the vaulted ground-floor, usually found in the Boarder counties of Scotland and England.
bastle: Mid 16th to mid-17th c. fortified farmhouse, with accommodation for livestock on the vaulted ground-floor, usually found in the Boarder counties of Scotland and England.
bath house: A building erected for bathing purposes, and fitted up with some or all of the conveniences and appliances for bathing, such as dressing rooms, bath tubs, douches, needle baths, foot baths, hot air, vapor, steam, and electric baths, swimming bans, and sometimes also containing hot springs and medical baths.
bath-house: Eighteenth century garden-feature, often erected over a spring, and containing changing rooms and fireplaces as well as a bath. 2. Building containing bath- and dressing-rooms: public bathing establishments were known throughout Europe, also called agnios. 3. Because of the association with dissipation, the term bagnio became synonymous with brothel.
bathing house: A small cabin or booth for undressing and dressing, and set up on the seashore or at the edge of a river or the like where bathing is common.
bayt: A Muslim dwelling, generally for one family, e.g., a tent or house. 2. In the early Muslim palace complex, a separate dwelling unit.
bead house: A dwelling for poor religious people, located near the church in which the founder was interred, and for whose soul the beadsmen or beadswomen were required to pray.
bedstead: The wooden or metal frame serving to support a bed and raise it above the floor, as to escape from draughts or the invasion of noxious animals. In modern usage, the bedstead is generally movable.
beggin: A dwelling of larger size than a cottage. 2. In the north of England and in Scotland, a house; especially applied to a hut covered with mud or turf.
begging: A dwelling of larger size than a cottage. 2. In the north of England and in Scotland, a house; especially applied to a hut covered with mud or turf.
beit: A Muslim dwelling, generally for one family, e.g., a tent or house. 2. In the early Muslim palace complex, a separate dwelling unit. See bayt.
bi-level: A two-story house having the lower level sunken below grade and an entry at grade halfway between the two floor levels.
bit hilani: In northern Syria, a type of palace in the first millennium B.C. having a forward section with two large traverse rooms, a portico with one to three columns, and throne room. 2. In ancient Assyrian architecture, the pillared portico of a beit hilani. See beit hilani.
boathouse: Building near water in which boats are kept. Prominent locations (e.g. beside a lake or river) provided opportunities to make such buildings waterside eye-catchers…
boat-house: Building near water in which boats are kept. Prominent locations (e.g. beside a lake or river) provided opportunities to make such buildings waterside eye-catchers…
bothe: Rough hut used as a shelter or for temporary accommodation for shepherds, mountaineers, etc. 2. Living-quarters, temporary or permanent, for unmarried male farm-workers, servants, etc. Usually of one story, built of rubble or turf (often finished with render), it occasionally acquired an upper story as sleeping-quarters. This type of vernacular architecture gradually attracted the attention of late 18th c. designers, becoming the inspiration for agricultural housing and rustic buildings in landscape-gardens illustrated in numerous contemporary pattern-books.
bothie: Rough hut used as a shelter or for temporary accommodation for shepherds, mountaineers, etc. 2. Living-quarters, temporary or permanent, for unmarried male farm-workers, servants, etc. Usually of one story, built of rubble or turf (often finished with render), it occasionally acquired an upper story as sleeping-quarters. This type of vernacular architecture gradually attracted the attention of late 18th c. designers, becoming the inspiration for agricultural housing and rustic buildings in landscape-gardens illustrated in numerous contemporary pattern-books.
bothy: Rough hut used as a shelter or for temporary accommodation for shepherds, mountaineers, etc. 2. Living-quarters, temporary or permanent, for unmarried male farm-workers, servants, etc. Usually of one story, built of rubble or turf (often finished with render), it occasionally acquired an upper story as sleeping-quarters. This type of vernacular architecture gradually attracted the attention of late 18th c. designers, becoming the inspiration for agricultural housing and rustic buildings in landscape-gardens illustrated in numerous contemporary pattern-books.
boziga: Old term for a dwelling.
breezeway: A roofed passage open at the sides between separate buildings, such as a house and a garage.
brownstone: Brown sandstone from the Connecticut River Valley or the banks of the Hackensack River. Soft, porous, and perishable. 2. A building, especially a row house, fronted with a reddish-brown sandstone.
bubble house: Based on a construction technique known as Airform. After the foundation was poured, a balloon was stretched over a steel cable, inflated, coated with reinforcing, then sprayed with concrete. A compressor kept the balloon full until the concrete had set, and then the balloon was deflated and removed.
bungaloid growth: Pejorative term for developments of speculative bungalows without aesthetic or architectural qualities: although mostly associated with suburbs…
bungaloid: Also see bungalow.
bungalow court: A group of three or more detached, one-story, single-family dwellings, arranged with common utilities and accessories under a common ownership.
bungalow: A favorite housing style in the early 20th century, with gabled roof with a slope facing the street, and a front porch, and simple detail…
ca’: Spanish in origin, for “house.”
cabana: In its Spanish origin, a hut, cabin or hovel; in recent use, a bathhouse.
cabin: A small rustic dwelling, crudely built, often only one room with a fireplace.
camelback: A one-story house with a two-story section to the rear. Association with 19th century New Orleans.
camp: The location of a temporary habitation, especially of a large number of men. 2. By extension from the place to the shelters erected for temporary occupancy, the tents or huts taken collectively which serve a military force, a number of workmen engaged in temporary occupation in a wild country, or the like. 3. By further extension, and in a somewhat jocose or familiar sense, a single building or a principal building with its outhouses and the like, intended for temporary residence, as during the hot season, and usually rough and slightly built.
Cape Cod: A style of cottage developed mainly on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, typically a rectangular, one- or one-and-half-story, wood-frame house with white clapboarded or shingle walls, a gable roof with low eaves and usually no dormer, a large central chimney, and a front door located on one of the long sides.
capeleion: In ancient Greece, a place where wine and provisions are sold. 2. The bar in a public inn.
caravansary: A hostelry of the Orient, built around a court. Originally the caravansary offered shelter but not food for man or beast.
caravanserai: In Turkey, a caravansary.
carcer rusticus: On ancient Roman farms, a private prison where slaves were made to work in chains. Same as ergastulum.
casa: Spanish in origin, for “house.”
Case Study houses: Campaign by the American journal Arts and Architecture started after the 1939-45 war in order to promote architecturally superior yet inexpensive dwellings, employing up-to-date building methods and modern materials…
cat-house: As cat. 2. Brothel.
châlet: The house of the Swiss mountaineer.
château: A French country castle, with or without fortifications.
chickee: A structure built on a raised platform, covered by a thatched roof, and open on all four sides. The traditional housing of the Seminole adapted to the southern Florida environment.
choltry: An East Indian inn.
choultry: A caravanserai. 2. In India, a large village hall or place of assembly.
circular house: A house circular in plan with an exterior sheathing of plate glass, to enhance the relationship to the outdoors.
cliff dwelling: Prehistoric habitation of certain Indian tribes in southwestern U.S.A. and in northern Mexico, partly excavation, partly stone-walled on narrow shelves of the cliffs.
cliff outlook: A form of cliff dwelling; a little house, or small group of houses, built by American Indians of the Pueblo type in a recess of a cliff, for a shelter while tending crops.
cluster housing: A group of buildings and especially houses built close together to form relatively compact units on a sizable tract in order to preserve open spaces larger than the individual yard for common recreation.
comfort station: A building, or part of a building, providing toilet facilities for the use of the public.
commons: A central, heated gathering-room in a chapter house, monastery, dormitory, or clubhouse. 2. A tract of land owned or used jointly by the residents of a community, usually a central square or park in a city or town.
communal dwelling: That occupied by two or more families in common; a joint tenement…
compluvium: The aperture in the center of the roof of the atrium in a Roman house, sloping inward to discharge rainwater into a cistern or tank.
conciergerie: French term for a porter’s lodge.
conditory: A repository for storing things.
condominium: Large development in which individual apartments are privately owned, but all owners are bound by restrictive covenants. It is usual in major housing schemes, where for aesthetic and social reasons the fabric cannot be altered and communal spaces are shared.
co-op: A building owned and managed by a nonprofit corporation in which shares are sold, entitling the shareholders to occupy units in the building.
cooperative apartment house: One in which the individual apartments are held by different persons, usually stockholders in a corporation that holds title to the property.
cooperative apartment: A building owned and managed by a nonprofit corporation in which shares are sold, entitling the shareholders to occupy units in the building.
cooperative: A building owned and managed by a nonprofit corporation in which shares are sold, entitling the shareholders to occupy units in the building. Also called co-op, cooperative apartment.
cot: A small house or cottage.
country house: A residence so far away from a city or large village that it stands free among its outbuildings and dependencies, and is beyond the sidewalks and out of easy reach of the shops, etc., and has to be in a certain sense self-contained. This requirement is diminishing, however, with the increase of facility in communication, the general use of the telephone, and, at least in England, of the house to house delivery of mail matter.
country seat: A rural residence of some importance.
crescent: A building or row of buildings the facades of which follow the line of an arc in plan.
custom home: A structure designed by an architect selected by the owner.
cyzicene hall: In ancient domestic architecture, a large hall looking out upon a garden; it served the purpose of a triclinium or banquet hall, though much larger than the ordinary triclinium. The cyzicene hall was a feature of Greek rather than of Roman houses.
dairi: Residence of the Japanese Makado.
detached dwelling: A house having no wall in common with another house.
deversorium: In ancient Rome, an inn for travelers, or a private house used for their lodging.
dharmsala: A Hindu caravanserai.
diaeta: The living quarters of an ancient Roman house (as opposed to those parts of the house used for other purposes). 2. A dwelling.
displuviate: Having roofs sloping downward toward the compluvium.
divan-i-amm: The great audience hall of a Mogul palace.
diversorium: A lodging, hired or gratuitous, in ancient Rome.
dogtrot: A log house in which two pens were separated by a path, which commonly was enclosed as a center passage and ultimately as a center hall.
domestic architecture: That having to do with the house.
domus: Roman house for a single wealthy family.
dormitory: A residential building in an institution. 2. A common sleeping-room.
dorter: A dormitory, especially in a monastery.
double house: In Charleston, South Carolina, a formal, two- or three-story townhouse, generally symmetrical with a center entry and large central hall. Not two Charleston Single Houses combined.
dower house: English term for the house occupied by a widow after the passing of her manor house to the eldest son.
ducal palace: The official residence of a sovereign prince bearing the title of Duke…
dugout: A primitive home that was dug into the top or side of a hill (half dugout). Stones or logs were used to make the exposed walls and a framework of poles and brush held up the sod roof.
duplex apartment: One having rooms on two floors, with private stairway between.
duplex house: A house having separate apartments for two families, especially a two-story house having a complete apartment on each floor and two separate entrances. Also called duplex.
duplex: A two-family structure whose units usually have similar floor plans. It is arranged with a dwelling or an apartment on each floor.
dwelling: A house for the family unit.
dymaxion house: A round Modernist house designed by Buckminster Fuller in 1927, and revised in 1941, to highlight the use of technology and new materials.
earth closet: A privy utilizing dry dust as an absorbent for the wastes.
earth lodge: A structure of saplings covered with a mud plaster.
earth wall dwellings: A variety of buildings made of mud, sod, wood, and twigs.
efficiency apartment: An apartment consisting of a single, multifunctional room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom.
embassy: Official residence of an ambassador.
engawa: A veranda-like area beneath the eaves of a traditional Japanese building, constructed of finely finished boards; may be on one or all four sides of the building; its exterior side may be fitted with sliding doors.
ergastulum: On ancient Roman farms, a private prison where slaves were made to work in chains.
ermitage: See hermitage.
fachwerk building: A distinctive addition to the 19th-century frontier landscape of Wisconsin and Texas, where Germanic settlers homesteaded, was the small farmhouse built of Fachwerk, or half-timbering. Fachwerk consisted of a braced timber frame, usually of white oak or cedar, set on a squared timber sill over a fieldstone foundation. The open framework was filled with an insulation of mud and straw, sandstone, or nogging (kiln-fired brick). A coat of adobe or lime plaster was often applied over the walls, but the Fachwerk might also be left exposed.
farmhouse: The residential unit on a farm.
ferme ornée: Also see cottage orne.
flat: A single story unit of habitation in a multi-story building. 2. A piece of scenery consisting of a wooden frame, usually rectangular, covered with lightweight board or fabric. 3. Without gloss or sheen.
four-square: The name given to the simple, square-shaped house built in profusion as middle-class housing between 1900 and 1930.
fraternity house: A building erected for the residential and meeting place of a student association known as a fraternity.
French flats: At first New York termed apartment houses French flats, for in Edith Wharton’s words in The Age of Innocence, “that was how women with lovers lived in the wicked old societies in apartments with all the rooms on one floor.”
garconniere: French origin, in French and Cajun Louisiana, a sleeping loft or separate dormitory for young men.
garden apartment: A multiple dwelling of two or three stories in height, usually in a suburban residential community, with at least a minimum of landscaping on the site.
garrison house: An early American fort to protect settlers from Indians. 2. A colonial house, of logs or heavy timber, whose second story projected beyond the first-story façade.
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.
glebe land: Also see glebe.
glebe: The land, and by extension the residence, of the holder of an ecclesiastical benefice from the Church of England.
gonge: The Anglo-Saxon term for a privy.
grass house: The permanent dwelling of the Wichita American Indians and of others of the same stock, the Caddoan. It is a dome-shaped structure of poles thatched with grass and banked with earth at the bottom…
great house: The main house on a plantation.
group house: Also see row house.
gyneceum: That part of a Greek house or a church reserved for women.
habitacle: A dwelling or habitation. 2. A niche for a statue.
hall keep: A rectangular keep in which the great hall and bed chamber were adjacent.
harem: In Muslim architecture, the women’s quarters in a palace or house.
harim: Same as harem.
haw: Mansion or dwelling, as used in Domesday Book.
hermitage: Dwelling of a hermit or religious recluse, in the medieval period often associated with religious foundations, endowed for an anchorite in a churchyard or some other place, often attached to a monastery, and frequently associated with an oratory. 2. 18th c. habitation in a lonely situation, often in a landscaped park, occupied by a paid ‘hermit’. 3. Cottage orné, primitive hut, or rustic residence in a landscape intended as a mnemonic of a hermit’s house. 4. Bower, gazebo, or secluded place, often associated with a grotto or cave, artificial rock-work, or some such construction in a 18th c. elegiac landscape.
hibernacula: Ancient apartments in a house intended for winter occupancy; less decorated than other apartments because of the dirt caused by the smoke from the fires and lamps burnt in them.
ho-be: A structure with a tepee shape formed from straight pine members that raise to a point and support one another, and covered with bark.
hogan: In the Navajo and Apache languages, a house.
home: An occupied primary residence or dwelling place.
homestall: A group of buildings and the land forming the home of a family.
hospice: A resort for travelers which includes lodging and entertainment.
hospitalium: A guest chamber in a Roman house. 2. A conventional entrance for strangers in a dramatic performance.
hospitium: In Roman archaeology, a guest chamber, or, by extension, a place such as an inn, where strangers were habitually entertained.
hostel: An inn.
hostrie: An inn.
hostry: An inn.
hotel: A building for the lodging and feeding of transients.
hôtel: A large French town house.
house: A building for human habitation.
housing unit: A house, apartment, suite of rooms, or a single room, occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
housing: Dwelling units in quantity. 2. A sinking in one member to engage a projection from another.
hovel: A shed open at the sides and covered overhead for sheltering livestock, produce, or people. 2. A poorly constructed and ill-kept house.
hut: A small and rough habitation.
igloo: An Eskimo house, constructed of snow blocks or various materials such as wood, sod, poles, and skins; when of snow, a domed structure.
imaret: A type of hostelry for the accommodation of Muslim pilgrims and other travelers in the Turkish empire.
impluvium: A cistern set in the atrium of an ancient Roman house to receive rainwater from the compluvium.
industrial housing: Buildings such as the shotgun, built as inexpensive worker housing.
ka’a: Also see qu’a.
kakemono: A vertical hanging scroll containing either text or a painting, intended to be viewed on a wall and rolled when not in use.
kang: A built-in divan in Chinese houses, made of brick and tile and heated by enclosed fire.
kashga: An Alaskan Eskimo house used as a sort of town hall. Similar to a kiva in its use.
kasr: Also see qasr.
keeper’s house: On a British estate, the dwelling provided for a gamekeeper.
keeper’s lodge: Same as keeper’s house, except that in the case of a royal park the building may become of considerable size, and may be used for other than merely game-protecting purposes.
ken: A linear unit for regulating column spacing in traditional Japanese construction, initially set at 6 feet or 1.8 meters, but later varying according to room width as determined by tatami units.
khan: In Turkey, a caravansary.
khanka: The Muslim equivalent of a monastery; a retreat for dervishes. Also see khanka.
kiva: The ceremonial chamber of the pueblo, usually entered by a ladder from the top.
konak: An official residence, or other large residence, in Turkey.
koshk: Same as kiosk.
kraal: A compound of native huts in Africa.
kung: In traditional Chinese architecture, buildings of no special importance which are within a compound, especially for royalty and/or monasteries; often not constructed along the central axis of the site plan.
lactarium: A dairy house.
lake dwelling: A dwelling, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other supports over the water of a lake.
latifundium: In ancient Rome, a large estate.
latrine: An ancient Roman term for a bath or place to wash, or to designate a water closet in a private home.
lavoir: In French, in general, any place for washing. As understood in English, especially a place arranged on a river bank, or the like, for washing clothes and linen…
lodge: A hut; a cabin. 2. A meeting place of certain fraternal organizations. 3. Gate lodge, or porter’s lodge, a small building attending the entrance to the grounds of a large residence or an institution.
lodging house: A house having rooms to rent, either singly, or in small suites, each containing a parlor and one or two bedrooms; food being sometimes furnished, or at least cooked and served…
log house: A house built of logs which are horizontally laid and notched and fitted at the ends to prevent spreading.
longhouse: A communal dwelling characteristic of many early cultures, especially that of the Iroquois and various other North American Indian peoples, consisting of a wooden, bark-covered framework often as much as 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length.
long-house: Domestic building including living-quarters, byres, etc., under one roof, with access by a single entry-passage. 2. Very large prehistoric timber structure, apparently used for many purposes, the remains of which have been found in several sites in Western Europe. 3. Large timber structure raised above the ground on posts, and divided into apartments, found in Malaysia and Indonesia. 4. Communal dwelling of meeting-house of Native Americans.
madhouse: A place for the care and medical treatment of the insane.
mahal: In Mogul architecture, a palace.
maisonette: A British term for duplex apartments within an apartment house, like a “little house.”
manor house: The residence of the lord or proprietor of a manor.
manor-house: House in a district in medieval England over which the Court of the Lord of the Manor had authority, or on the land belonging to that nobleman: it was usually unfortified, of medium size, and architecturally unpretentious.
mansion house: The residence of the Lord Mayor of London, finished about 1750. It has an interesting hexastyle Corinthian portico.
mansion: A large and imposing dwelling. 2. An apartment in a large building or dwelling. 3. A manor house.
manufactured home : A home that is constructed almost entirely in a factory, placed on a steel chassis, and transported to the building site.
mat house: A house with tule or cattail matting covering exterior bracing poles.
meng ku pao: Same as yurt.
mesa dwelling: A house built on the summit of a mesa, or tableland. The best modern examples are the dwellings of the Moki, in Arizona, and the Acoma, in New Mexico. Their construction is that of all Pueblo architecture.
mesa: A natural flat-topped elevation with one or more clifflike sides, common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
meson: In Mexico, a crude inn.
messuage: A dwelling with all attached and adjoining buildings and curtilage together with adjacent lands used by the household.
mew: A street having small apartments converted from stables. Also, mews.
mia-mia: A hut of circular plan, the walls of which are of trees sloped or bent inward; peculiar to Australia and neighboring islands.
minch house: A roadside inn.
mjolkbod: Dairy room of a Swedish dwelling.
mobile home: A home resting on a trailer that may be moved or kept permanent on an empty lot.
modular home: A home constructed of pre-made parts and unit modules. Components are then transported from the factory to the building site where these are fitted together.
morastuga: Also see tvarumstuga.
motel: A roadside inn or group of small cottages, but usually both, for the transient use of the motorist.
mud house: A house made of adobe plaster laid over thatch.
multifamily buildings : Housing of a variety of sizes and forms, to house two or more families.
multifamily: Designed or suitable for use by several or many families.
nagaya: In traditional Japanese architecture, a long house which is divided into many small apartments, each occupied by a family in the employ of a landowner or lord.
noraghe: Also see nuraghe.
okala: In Islamic countries, a hostelry.
orne: A rustic, romantic Victorian house using tree trunks and branches as columns and brackets.
outhouse: A detached privy.
outpost inn: Sometimes a synonym for motel, but more specifically designating what may be a branch establishment of a city hotel or an independent project, located well beyond the busy streets and affording the ample parking, ground-floor dining, and convention-assembly space that is lacking inside most cities.
palace: A residence for royalty; by extension, a residence of especial magnificence.
palatial: Palace-like, grand, of large size, and with elaborate amenities.
palatium: Official palace of the Roman emperors.
palisade log house: A house built of logs placed vertically into the ground.
pandokeion: In ancient Greece, a type of private inn which accommodated and entertained travelers.
panel house: A brothel in which the rooms are lined with sliding panels which facilitate robberies of house patrons.
patrician house: Dwelling belonging to hereditary noble citizens of certain medieval Italian cities, or Orders of Gentlemen of the Free Cities of the German Empire. Some were built as towers for reasons of prestige, e.g. in Bologna, San Gimignano, etc.
pen: A one room log house.
penn pit: In Great Britain, a primitive dwelling underground or nearly so; the pit excavated for the purpose being roofed at the level of the surface or, later, somewhat above.
Picts’ house: A house, circular in plan, of conical shape, with an opening at the top; large stones, without cement, were employed in its construction. The internal area was often considerably less in diameter than the thickness of the wall, within which were sometimes staircases and small cell-like rooms. Constructed by the Picts who formerly inhabited the highlands of Scotland and some of the islands of Scotland.
plaisance: A summerhouse in the grounds of a country mansion.
plank house: A large house, generally rectangular, constructed of vertical planks without studs; the interior may be plastered; often the exterior was covered with shingles or clapboards.
point block: A British term for an apartment tower.
poorhouse: A public institution for the care and support of the helpless poor; especially in some states of the U.S. such an establishment kept up by the township.
posada: In Spanish-speaking countries, an inn.
post house: A wayside inn where relays of vehicles for a journey may be hired, and where horses are kept for the convenience of travelers. Called also posting house.
posting house: Also see posting inn.
posting inn: Also see posting inn.
praetorium: Also see pretorium.
pretorium: Also see praetorium.
public housing: Dwelling units provided by a municipality, upon a specified basis of tenant selection, with or without subsidy.
public-house: Inn or hostelry providing food and lodging for travelers or members of the general public, licensed for the supply of ale, wines, and spirits. 2. Today the term (shortened to pub) is specifically given to a tavern where the principal business is the sale of alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises, though it may serve food, but mostly does not have accommodation for travelers.
pueblo house: A communal dwelling of the village Indians called pueblos…
qasr: An Arabic palace, castle, or mansion. See kasr.
qu’a: The reception room of a palace or house in the Near East. Also see ka’a.
quarters: Places for lodging, taken collectively, or any one such place…
quinta: A country estate.
residence: A dwelling of the more imposing type and size.
residential building : Buildings for either single-family or multi-family use. Built individually as speculation houses or as commissions; in groups as small-, medium-, and large-scale developments; and as prefabricated buildings.
rest house: An inn for travelers in India.
row dwelling: One of an unbroken line of houses sharing one or more sidewalls with its neighbors. A group house. 2. One of a number of similarly constructed houses in a row; usually in a housing development.
row house: One of an unbroken line of houses sharing one or more sidewalls with its neighbors. A group house. 2. One of a number of similarly constructed houses in a row; usually in a housing development.
rowhouse: Houses that share common walls and form a row, or what the English term terraces. Town house is the elegant social promotion of the same physical space.
saltbox: A gabled-roof house in which the rear slope is much longer than the front.
sarai: Building for the accommodation of travellers (see caravanserai) 2. Turkish palace. 3. Incorrect work for a serail or seraglio (part of a dwelling reserved for women, or a harem). 4. Warehouse. 5. House, or, more usually, commercial premises (e.g. shops), often of two stories, grouped round a court (sometimes with a garden), associated with a corridor lined with shops.
seigniory: The residence of a lord in southern Europe.
semidetached dwelling: A house joined by a party wall to another house or row of houses.
semidetached house: Descriptive of a pair of houses with a party wall between.
serai: A Turkish palace, harem, or seraglio. 2. A caravanserai.
serail: A Turkish palace, harem, or seraglio. 2. A caravanserai.
shack: A rudely constructed shelter of small size.
shade-house: Small 16th or 17th c. summer-house sited at the termination of a walk or in a corner of a garden.
shadow-house: Small 16th or 17th c. summer-house sited at the termination of a walk or in a corner of a garden.
shanty: A shack, a rude wooden shelter. 2. The office of a contractor on a construction job.
shealing: Same as sheiling.
sheiling: A hut for temporary shelter. Especially, a rough shelter for shepherds and sheep in Scotland.
shell-house: See shell-work
shelter: Generic term for buildings serving as habitations for humans.
shoin: Better class of Japanese house (especially of 16th c.), based on a rigidly applied system of proportion, with open plans subdivided by shoji screens, etc.
Shoin-zukuri: A ceremonial style of Japanese residential architecture in the Kamakura period, deriving its name from the characteristic shoin or study-bay and marked by a hierarchical arrangement of public and private rooms.
shooting box: A building intended as a dwelling for persons engaged in the pursuit of deer, wild birds, or the like. The term includes the necessary outbuildings.
slab house: A house built of rough-hewn planks.
slab-house: Building clad in rough-hewn timber planks.
smoke flap: Flaps in a tipi that are movable so as to allow smoke out.
smoke hole: A hole in the center of a pit house or similar construction to let the smoke out.
spere: In medieval English residences and derivatives, a fixed screen projecting from the side of a great hall, near a door, to mitigate drafts.
split-level: A house having a room or rooms somewhat above or below adjacent rooms, with the floor levels usually differing by approximately half a story.
springhouse dwelling: For convenience, a springhouse was often incorporated directly into a dwelling.
springhouse: A building enclosing a natural spring; sufficiently cool for use of a storehouse of milk and other dairy products.
stabulum: An inn or public house for the accommodation of travelers.
stadhuis: In the Netherlands, a town house or a city hall.
studio apartment: An apartment consisting of a single, multifunctional room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Also called efficiency apartment.
summerhouse: A rest house in a garden, or station point for a view.
summer-house: Primitive, simple, or rustic structure in a garden or park to provide shaded seating during hot weather. It may double as an eyecatcher.
Swiss hut: See hut.
synoecia: In ancient Greece, a residence shared by several families.
tachara: The residence hall at Persepolis, built by Darius.
tana: In Japanese residential architecture, a recess with built-in shelving, usually adjoining a tokonoma.
tatami: A thick straw floor mat, covered with smooth, finely woven reeds and bound with plain or decorated bands of silk, cotton, or hemp; serves as a floor covering in a Japanese house; has a standard size of approximately six feet by three feet; used as a standard unit of area in the measurement of room size.
teccizcalli: Also see calli.
teepee: A tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door.
tenement house: A building occupied by more than one family and usually having suites of rooms, a public stairway, dumbwaiter, and toilet room common to two or more families on each floor, each suite consisting of a living room, with one or more bedrooms opening therefrom, and furnished with cold water supply and a chimney flue, and renting for less than $300 a year…
tenement: A 19th-century, low-rise walk-up apartment house that covers most of its site; now a pejorative term.
tepee: A tent of the American Indians, made usually from animal skins laid on a conical frame of long poles and having an opening at the top for ventilation and a flap door. Also, teepee.
terrace house: One of a row of houses situated on a terrace, or similar site.
terrace: An open, often paved area connected to a house or building and serving as an outdoor living area, or a row of houses or residential street on or near the top of a slope.
terraced house: See row house.
tezcalli: Also see calli.
ticplantlacalli: Also see calli.
tien: In traditional Chinese architecture, an important building within a compound especially for royalty and/or monasteries. Such buildings were on raised platforms with steps and were always constructed along a central axis of the site plan.
tokonoma: Alcove for seating or for display (e.g. prints, flower-pot, etc.) in a Japanese room.
totem: An animal, plant, or natural object serving as an emblem of a family or clan by virtue of an ancestral relationship.
town house: Originally the secondary residence of the English country gentleman. Now not necessarily a house in town but one in an urban arrangement: i.e., row house. Town house is a classier term – to increase sales.
townhouse: Originally the secondary residence of the English country gentleman. Now not necessarily a house in town but one in an urban arrangement: i.e., row house. Town house is a classier term – to increase sales.
tract house: A house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.
tripartite house: One of the earliest Germanic building types in Pennsylvania was the tripartite house, which reflected the Old World tradition of combining a house, a threshing area, and a stable under the same roof.
triplex: A building having three apartments, an apartment having three floors, or a multiplex of three theaters.
trullo: In the Apulia region of southern Italy, cone-shaped constructions over 1,000 years old; constructed without mortar or cement by piling stones in a cylindrical shape (about 2 m high) and then tapering into a characteristic cone at the top; the tip of the cone usually is whitewashed and painted with figures or symbols; usually located among vineyards to serve as storage structures or as temporary living quarters during the harvest.
tvarumstuga: A three-room dwelling of Sweden, common in Mora, province of Dalecarlia.
under kiosk: Also see under kiosk.
Victory Housing : Victory housing was designed to be permanent and comfortable, large enough for a single family. Most of this housing was prefabricated – walls and roofs constructed at a central factory then shipped to the final location for assembly. Once a street was constructed, it was neat, tidy, and uniform. The houses were generally one-and-a-half story with a steep roof, shallow eaves and no dormers. Multi-paned sash windows supplied light to the first floor and through the gable ends. The finish is different in every center, but clapboard was the most common.
vicus: In ancient Rome, originally a term meaning a house, but later applied to a collection of houses.
villa rustica: A Roman villa which served agricultural purposes; included apartments for the vilicus or steward who superintended money matters, the bookkeeper, and slaves; contained stalls and storerooms.
villa urbana: A Roman villa which was built for purposes of pleasure; designed to take advantage of the landscape; contained separate rooms and colonnades for summer and winter, the former facing north and the latter facing south; contained baths, rooms for physical exercise, library, and art collections.
walk-up: Multiple dwelling of not over four stories, without elevator service.
wigwam: An American Indian dwelling, usually of round or oval shape, formed of poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or animal skins.
workhouse: A house in which work is carried on; especially a house in which able-bodied paupers or vagrants are compelled to work; a poorhouse.
yali: A Turkish summer residence.
yamun: The official residence of a Chinese mandarin.
yao: A cave dwelling in the clay regions of northwest China, of three common types: 1. A simple hole dug into a cliff. 2. A simple hole dug into a cliff, covered by a lean-to. 3. A vaulted chamber in a cliff; has rounded arch-shaped sections; some arches and walls are reinforced with bricks or stones.
yildiz kiosk: Also see under kiosk.
yourt: A permanent or winter dwelling of the Eskimos.
yurt: Felt- or hid-covered Central-Asiatic tent with a cone-shaped top, a form repeated in certain 11th c. Islamic brick-built mausolea.
zashiki: In a Japanese-style house, the main room used for entertaining guest; its floor is covered with tatami; usually has a toko-no-ma.
zeilenbau: Row housing.
zenana: In India, the apartments of the women.
zotheca: In Near Eastern architecture and derivatives, an alcove off a living room. 2. A niche for a statue or other object, as in a sepulchral chamber.