abacus
adobe
A-frame
arcade
architrave
Art Moderne
Arts and Crafts movement
ashlar masonry
balloon frame
bargeboard
battlement
Beaux Arts
belt course
belvedere
board and batten
bracket
bungalow
cantilever
capital
casement window
castellated
Châteauesque
chinking
clapboard
column
Communitarian Housing
Contemporary
corbel
Corinthian order
cornice
Craftsman
crenellation
crocket
cupola
curtain wall
dentil
dependency
Doric order
dormer
double-hung window
drawing room
drip molding
Dymaxion house
Early Romanesque Revival
eaves
echinus
egg and dart
Egyptian Revival
elevation
engaged column
entablature
eyebrow dormer
fanlight
fascia
Federalist
fenestration
finial
flanker
flute
Folk Victorian
French Eclectic
frieze
gable
gambrel
geodesic dome
Georgian
gingerbread
girt
Gothic Revival
Greek Revival
guilloche
hacienda
half-timbering
High Victorian
hipped roof
historic preservation
Industrial Workers Housing
inglenook
International Style
Ionic order
Italian Renaissance
Italianate
jerkinhead
jetty
keystone
lancet
lantern
Late Modern
lean-to
lintel
louver
mansard roof
metope
Modernist
molding
Moorish Revival
mortise
mullion
Neoclassical
Neoclassical Revival
nogging
octagon
Octagon Houses
Oddities
order
oriel
oval window
Palladian window
parapet
pattern book
pediment
pendant
pendill
piazza
pier
pilaster
pinnacle
plinth
porte cochere
portico
Postmodernism
Prairie Style
prefabrication
quatrefoil
Queen Anne
quoins
Quonset Hut
rafter
rafter tails
Ranch
ribbon window
Richardsonian Romanesque
Ruskinian Gothic
saltbox
sash
Second Empire
segmental arch
Shingle Style
shotgun house
Spanish Revivals
Split-Level Homes
stepped gable
Stick Style
stucco
swag
Swiss Chalet
tenon
tepee
transom
treenail
trefoil
truss
Tudor
Usonian houses
veranda
vernacular
viga
volute
voussoir
wattle and daub
widow’s walk
wigwam
Sources Cited
Reiss, Marcia. Architectural Details. San Diego, California: Thunder Bay Press. 2004.
Key Facts
At time of upload on August 20, 2019:
- 81 duplicative terms of those already existing in the Architectural Dictionary
- 19 original terms
- 162 total terms in source
- 11.7% original terms in source
- 62 sources in dictionary
- 8,538 unique terms in dictionary
- 25,783 total terms all sources in dictionary
- 33.1% unique terms in dictionary