- 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.
Key Facts
At time of upload on January 19, 2025: