1 1/2 story
1 front 2 rear
1 sash
1 sash and transom
1 split
1 story
1st and 2nd story porches and galleries
2 1/2 stories
2 sash
2 sash and transom
2 sash no mullion
2 sash with mullion
2 split
2 stories
2 stories oversail
3 sash or more with mullions above with additional sashes
3 stories
4 stories
5 stories
additional building features
additional gable with window
additional or decorated gables
apse and narthex plan
apse and transept plan
apsidal plan
arcade
arcade or colonnade
arcading
arch alternate radiating voussoirs
arch alternating radiating voussoirs
arch radiating voussoirs
arch radiating voussoirs keystone
arch radiating voussoirs with keystone
arch stepped radiating voussoirs
asbestos cement sheet
ashlar imitation
attached barn or garage
attached irregular
balcony or additional porch
bargeboard
bay
bay bow or oriel window
bellcast gable
bellcast gambrel
bellcast hip
bellcast hipped gable
bellcast hipped gambrel
bellcast mansard
belvedere or open walk
blind window
boomtown
brick
buttress
casement window
center chimney
center door gable facade
center door main facade
center ogee opening shape
center ogee window
center pointed opening shape
center pointed window
center space plan
church multi
church pair each side
church single center
church single either side
church three
church two center and side
circular plan
clapboard
close eaves
closed porch
cluster chimney
colombage
columns
common bond
composition
composition shingle or sheet
concrete block
concrete poured
conical
corbeling
cornice boxed brackets or consoles
cornice boxed decorated
cornice boxed decorated frieze decorated
cornice boxed decorated frieze plain
cornice boxed decorated with return
cornice boxed frieze decorated
cornice boxed pedimented-raking
cornice boxed plain
cornice boxed plain
cornice boxed plain frieze
cornice boxed plain with return
cornice boxed sloped soffit
cornice boxed with frieze and brackets
cornice fascia alone
cornice fascia along
crawl space
cresting
cross gable
cruciform plan
cupola or lantern
curved stairs
cut stone broken course
cut stone coursed
decorated door
decorated door surround
decorated gable
decorated lugsill
decorated no embrasure
decorated pediment
decorated slipsill
decorated with embrasure
decorative design or painting
decorative panel or carving
dome
door type
dormer shape
double hung window
double semi-detached non-related
double semi-detached related
double stairs
double-leaf one panel door
drop or pendant
Dutch door
earth
eaves projecting no rafters
eaves projecting rafters
elliptical window
engaged column no embrasure
engaged column or pilaster
engaged column with embrasure
English bond
entablature and/or frieze
extension tower and spire
extent of stairs on main facade 1 none
exterior chimney location
exterior wall material
eyebrow window
facade tower and spire
fan panel door
finial or urn
fixed window
flat
flat arch vertical joint
flat arch vertical joints
flat cob
flat door opening shape
flat window
Flemish bond
flint and/or cobble
flush blind door architrave
flush blind side panels
flush fan door architrave
flush light door architrave
flush light mullion door architrave
flush lights side panels
flush or laminated door
flush other side panels
flush panel door
flush-board
french door
front slope chimney location
full basement
gable decorated dormer shape
gable no overhang dormer shape
gable stepped dormer shape
gable with overhang dormer shape
gable with return dormer shape
gabled hip or gablet
gabled mansard
gablet
galvanized tin or iron
gambrel
garden wall
glued or laminated frame
Gothic window
ground or 1st floor plain
ground or 1st floor with railing
ground or 1st floor with solid railing
half-elliptical window
Halifax
header bond
high gable
high hip
hinged window
hipped cross gable
hipped dormer shape
hipped gable
hipped gambrel
hipped with center gable
hood curved plain or bracketed
hood flat plain or bracketed
hood plain or bracketed
hooded dormer shape
horizontal log
horizontal log cordwood
horizontal plank
horizontal shaped log
horizontal sliding window
h-shaped plan
inscription or date stone
inset tower and spire
irregular
irregular plan
joined chimney stack
label
linked at base chimney stack
linked top chimney stack
lintel
lintel decorated
lintel shaped
lintel shaped
low gable
low hip
L-shaped plan
lugsill
main door architrave type
main door location
main door structural opening shape
main door surround
main window divisions
main window surround
main window swing or slide
mansard
medium gable
medium hip
metal and glass
metal sheet
monitor
mortise and tenon
mortise and tenon frame
moulded rail decorated panel door
moulded rail flush panel door
moulded rail raised panel door
moulded trim
multi stories
multi window
multiple gable
multiple main
multiple stories porches and galleries
nailed frame
narthex and transept plan
natural
off-center gable facade
off-center main facade
offset left chimney
offset right chimney
open porch
Palladian window
panel
panel or plywood
parapet crenelated
parapet entablature
parapet gable
parapet plain
parapet with balustrade
partial basement
pavilion plan
pediment
pediment broken
pediment dormer shape
pediment double curve
pediment plain
pediment segmental
pier and spandrel
pierced chimney stack
piers
pilasters no embrasure
pilasters or engaged columns
pilasters with embrasure
pivoted window
plain
plain moulding
plain no embrasure
plain or split fieldstone
plain recessed panel door
plain with embrasure
plaster or stucco
platform or stoop
plinth
polished finish
polygonal plan
polygonal window
portico
posts
poured concrete
pre-cast concrete panel shaped
pyramidal
quarter-round window
quoins
rear slope chimney location
recessed blind door architrave
recessed blind side panels
recessed fan door architrave
recessed light mullion door architrave
recessed light plain door architrave
recessed lights side panels
recessed other side panels
recessed panel
recessed panel beveled door
rectangular plan
Red River frame
rock-faced
roof shape
roof trim eaves type
roof trim raking type
roof trim special features
round window
row non-related end
row non-related intermediate
row related end
row related intermediate
rubble coursed
rubble random
rubble squared
rusticated
saltbox
sash with sidelights
sawn
sawtooth
segmental opening shape
segmental window
semi-circular opening shape
semi-circular window
semi-elliptical opening shape
semi-elliptical window
shed
shelf or entablature
shingle
shiplap
side left chimney
side right chimney
side slope chimney location
single chimney stack
single detached
single leaf one panel door
slate
slate or shale
slipsill
smooth dressed smoothed
spiral stairs
spire or steeple
split weatherboard
square plan
steel or iron
stepped gable
stone
straddle ridge chimney location
straight reversed stairs
straight side stairs
straight stairs
stretcher bond
string or belt course
swept dormer shape
tile
tooled or hammered
tower or turret
treillage
triangular
triangular window
truncated hip roof
T-shaped plan
umbrage
upper floors with railing
upper floors with solid railing stairs to 2nd floor and above
U-shaped plan
vault
verandah or gallery
verges close
verges projecting plain
vermiculated
vertical board and batten door
vertical log
vertical plain door
vertical plank
vertical shaped log
Victorian round
victorian segmental
wall design & detail
windows
wings
wings tower and spire
worked with a tool
Sources Cited
The Washington State Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. Architectural Description Guide. Olympia, WA: Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. 1978.
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