Glossary
- anthemion
- architrave
- balustrade
- bay
- belt course
- bluestone
- bow room
- classical orders
- clerestory
- corbel
- cornice
- dado
- dentils
- dependency
- dormers
- engaged column
- English basement
- entablature
- façade
- finial
- Flemish bond
- frieze
- gable roof
- gambrel roof
- glazed brick
- hipped roof
- hyphen
- jack arch
- lintel
- loggia
- lunette
- metope
- modillion
- molded
- muntins
- oculus
- ogee
- oriel window
- Palladian window
- pavilion
- pediment
- pendentive
- pent roof
- piano nobili
- piazza
- pilaster
- portico
- quoins
- reveal
- rusticated
- sallyport
- sash
- soffit
- stringcourse
- stucco
- terra cotta
- vault
- Venetian window
- wainscot
- wainscoting
- water table
- weatherboarding
Source Citation
Hayward, Mary Ellen and Frank E. Shivers, Jr. The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004.
Key Facts
At time of upload on January 19, 2025: