Glossary
- 1 1/2 story
- 1 story
- 2 story
- acanthus leaves
- active system
- Adam Style
- adobe block house
- American Foursquare
- anchors
- and other details
- Apartments
- arcade
- arched doorway with carved stone decoration
- arched entry with wooden door
- arched windows with elaborate hood molding
- architrave
- Art Deco
- Art Moderne
- atrium
- awning window
- balcony
- balcony
- balcony and portico
- balusters
- band of sash windows
- bay window
- belt course
- belvedere
- block thermal mass
- brackets
- brackets under eaves
- brick
- brick quoins
- brick walls with stone ledge
- broad gables at different heights
- broad gables with exposed rafters
- broad shingled hip roof
- broken pediment
- broken window
- Bungalow
- Bungalow
- buttress
- California Ranch
- cantilevered balconies
- Cape Cod
- carved
- carved decorative panels
- carved stone crest
- carved wood decorations
- casement window
- casement windows
- casement windows
- casement windows
- central courtyard
- Chicago Style
- chimney and raised center to pin the house down
- chimney with small tile roof
- chimneys at gable ends
- chimneys at gable ends
- circular
- clan houses
- clapboard siding
- clapboard siding
- Classic urns
- classical columns
- classical detailing
- climate
- closed porch
- Colonial Bungalow
- Colonial Revival
- Colonial shutters
- Colonial Styles
- Colossal Doric columns
- colossal fluted Doric columns
- columns
- columns
- composition
- concrete exterior
- concrete slab topped with bricks
- continuous band of recessed windows
- continuous casement windows
- corbelling
- corner windows
- cornice
- Cotswold Cottage
- coursed rough cut stone
- covered porch
- Craftsman Style
- cresting
- cross gable
- curtain wall
- curved corners
- curved gable end
- decorated belt course
- decorative brick work
- decorative entablature
- decorative entablature
- decorative gingerbread bargeboard
- dentils under cornice
- detailing
- Dog Trot
- door and window trim
- dormers with arched windows
- dormer
- dormers
- double French doors
- double French entry doors
- double hung window
- double sash window
- Dugout
- Dutch Colonial
- earth lodge
- Earth Sheltered House
- Eastern Stick Style
- eaves close to wall
- elaborate Palladian windows
- encircling veranda
- Energy-Efficient Housing
- entablature window surrounds
- entry staircase
- exposed rafters and purlins under roof and dormers
- exterior deck
- exterior siding of brick
- exterior siding of stone
- exterior siding of stucco
- exterior siding of wood
- eyebrow canopies
- faces
- family cottage
- Fantasy Houses
- Federal
- Federal style portico with wrought iron balcony
- few small windows
- fish scale and straight shingle patterns
- fish scale shingles in gable ends
- flat
- flat arch
- flat arch with keystone
- flat roof with parapet wall
- flat roof with stepped parapet
- flat roof without eaves
- Flemish bond brick work
- Flounder House
- fluted colossal columns
- folk
- fortress
- French Colonial
- French doors
- French Roof House
- frieze
- front porch
- gable
- gable roof
- gambrel roof with wide overhang
- gallery
- gambrel
- garage
- garage facing street
- geometric designed panel inserts above windows
- Georgian
- Georgian Style
- German stone houses
- glass architectural blocks in vertical pattern
- glass block window
- Gothic Revival
- Greek Revival
- ground pillars
- half-timbering
- hip
- hip roof with overhang
- hip roof with wide eaves
- hip with gable
- hood
- horizontal bands under windows
- houseboats
- inner courtyard
- International Style
- intersecting planes of gable roof
- Into the 20th Century
- irregular
- Italianate Style
- Jeffersonian Classicism
- L shape
- large central chimney
- large front porch
- lintel
- location
- low gable roof
- low hip roof
- low hip roof with wide eaves
- low pediment
- low pitch gable roof
- low pitch hip roof
- low pitch red tile roof
- low pitch roof
- mansard
- mansard roof with patterned tile
- maroon
- mauve
- metal casement windows
- Midwest regional Prairie style variation
- Mining Camp
- Mobile Homes
- Modernistic
- modified Palladian window
- Monterrey Style
- mousetoothing
- multi-colored lights in upper sash
- multiple chimneys
- multiple diagonally placed chimneys
- multiple doorways
- mustard
- Neo-Expressionism
- New England Colonial
- number of stories
- octagon
- Octagon House
- Octagon Style
- olive
- open porch
- optional decoration
- oriel window
- overhanging eaves with purlins
- oversized chimney
- oversized cornice
- painted white clapboard siding
- Palladian window
- Palladian window
- paneled doorway
- paneled frieze
- parapet wall raised on elbows
- passive system
- pattern books
- pavilion
- pavilion roof
- pediment
- pedimented entrance
- pediments
- picture window
- picture window
- pilasters
- piloti
- pinnacle
- pinnacles
- pit house
- plain*
- plain white stucco
- plan shape
- plate glass windows
- pointed arches
- pointed windows
- porch post with braces
- porches
- porches and balconies with extended beams
- portable sleeper
- portico
- post and balustrade
- Prairie Style
- Prairie Style
- Prairie Style
- Prefab Houses
- projecting bay windows
- pueblo
- Queen Anne
- quoins
- raised basement
- Ranch House
- recessed loggia
- rectangle
- red tile chimney roof
- red tile roof
- reinforced concrete
- Revival Styles and Romantic Ideas
- ribbon windows
- Richardsonian Romanesque
- rocks
- Roman Revival
- roof beams
- Roof Material
- Roof Type
- rosettes
- round arch
- sage
- salt box
- sash window with sidelights
- sash windows tucked under eaves
- scooped out area shelter
- scrollwork
- scrolls
- Second Empire Style
- second story exterior porch
- shake shingles
- shed
- shelf
- shingle siding
- Shingle Style
- shingled exterior
- shingled porch post
- sidelights
- sidelights
- single sash window
- single story
- skeletal construction
- sliding window
- smoke hole
- smooth wall surfaces
- solar panels
- solar panels
- Southern Colonial
- spandrels
- Spanish Colonial
- Spanish Colonial Revival
- spire
- split double story
- split level
- Split Level
- Split Level
- square
- squat tower with conical roof
- stained glass casement windows
- stained glass transom
- stamped redwood
- starter home
- steep cross gable roof
- steep cross gables
- steep gable
- steep gable rock
- steep gable roof
- steep gable with pinnacles
- stepped gable end
- stickwork
- stone thermal mass
- stone
- stone chimney
- stone foundation
- stone porch
- stoop
- stout columns with floral capital design
- straight side gable roof
- stucco
- stucco facade
- stucco over adobe
- Styles
- Sullivanesque
- sunbursts
- Sunday Houses
- T shape
- tepee
- terra cotta
- terraces and balconies
- thick stone walls
- tile metal
- tower
- tower
- tower and parapet with battlements
- tower with conical roof
- Townhouse
- tracery with stained glass
- transom
- transom window
- Tudor arch
- tumbling
- turned porch post
- turned porch post
- typical Queen Anne cottage
- U shape
- Up to the Present and Beyond
- Venetian red
- Venetian window
- veranda
- veranda
- veranda
- vermillion
- Vernacular
- vernacular
- vertical board and batten siding
- vertical elements and stepped back facade
- vertical logs with rock and mortar fill
- Victorian
- vigas
- weather board
- Western Stick Style
- wide arched entryway
- wide entablature
- wide gable with overhanging eaves
- wide galleries
- wide hip roof
- wide ornamental frieze
- window types
- window with wrought iron grill
- windows and door with leaded glass in geometric patterns
- wood
- wood shingle siding
- wood shingle siding
- wood shingles
- wood siding
- wooden plank
- work bench
- wrap-around windows
- wrought iron anchors
- wrought iron balconies
Terms by Style
- vernacular
- folk
- German stone houses
- location
- climate
- adobe block house
- pueblo
- central courtyard
- fortress
- inner courtyard
- wide galleries
- exterior deck
- earth lodge
- pit house
- smoke hole
- tepee
- wooden plank
- clan houses
- Dugout
- scrollwork
- shake shingles
- mousetoothing
- tumbling
- anchors
- steep gable rock
- thick stone walls
- Octagon House
- pediments
- columns
- scrolls
- sunbursts
- acanthus leaves
- rosettes
- brackets
- balusters
- faces
- carved
- stamped redwood
- vermillion
- sage
- mustard
- olive
- maroon
- terra cotta
- mauve
- Venetian red
- pattern books
- French Roof House
- Sunday Houses
- Flounder House
- Dog Trot
- Mining Camp
- stained glass casement windows
- Prairie Style
- Bungalow
- Colonial Bungalow
- Ranch House
- Split Level
- Cape Cod
- Townhouse
- Apartments
- Prefab Houses
- Mobile Homes
- Energy-Efficient Housing
- passive system
- stone thermal mass
- block thermal mass
- concrete slab topped with bricks
- active system
- solar panels
- Earth Sheltered House
- solar panels
- Fantasy Houses
- houseboats
- portable sleeper
- family cottage
- starter home
Styles
- Georgian Style
- Prairie Style
- Vernacular
- large central chimney
- wood shingles
- casement windows
- multiple diagonally placed chimneys
- gable roof
- curved gable end
- stepped gable end
- corbelling
- belt course
- multiple doorways
- few small windows
- stucco over adobe
- roof beams
- vigas
- flat roof with parapet wall
- covered porch
- broad shingled hip roof
- post and balustrade
- second story exterior porch
Monterrey Style
French Colonial
- pavilion roof
- casement windows
- gallery
- vertical logs with rock and mortar fill
- French doors
- hip roof with wide eaves
- double French entry doors
- encircling veranda
- raised basement
- entry staircase
- decorative brick work
- wrought iron anchors
- chimneys at gable ends
- parapet wall raised on elbows
- straight side gable roof
- weather board
- chimneys at gable ends
- gambrel roof with wide overhang
- wood shingle siding
- Colonial shutters
- dentils under cornice
- Classic urns
- flat arch with keystone
- fluted colossal columns
- paneled doorway
- pedimented entrance
- brick quoins
- Palladian window
- Venetian window
Federal
Adam Style
Jeffersonian Classicism
Roman Revival
Revival Styles and Romantic Ideas
- low pediment
- wide entablature
- cornice
- frieze
- architrave
- colossal fluted Doric columns
- entablature window surrounds
- painted white clapboard siding
- transom
- sidelights
- tower and parapet with battlements
- steep gable with pinnacles
- oriel window
- multiple chimneys
- pinnacles
- pointed arches
- tracery with stained glass
- Tudor arch
- vertical board and batten siding
- steep cross gable roof
- decorative gingerbread bargeboard
- pointed windows
Italianate Style
Octagon Style
- wide hip roof
- belvedere
- dormers with arched windows
- Colossal Doric columns
- double French doors
- Federal style portico with wrought iron balcony
- elaborate Palladian windows
- Flemish bond brick work
Victorian
Second Empire Style
- arched windows with elaborate hood molding
- paneled frieze
- tower
- mansard roof with patterned tile
- brackets under eaves
- veranda
- classical columns
- clapboard siding
- stickwork
- dormers
- steep cross gables
- overhanging eaves with purlins
- porch post with braces
- stout columns with floral capital design
- continuous band of recessed windows
- wide arched entryway
- coursed rough cut stone
- squat tower with conical roof
- decorated belt course
- recessed loggia
- tower with conical roof
- steep gable
- carved wood decorations
- decorative entablature
- turned porch post
- clapboard siding
- multi-colored lights in upper sash
- balcony and portico
- fish scale and straight shingle patterns
- fish scale shingles in gable ends
- decorative entablature
- stained glass transom
- typical Queen Anne cottage
- turned porch post
Shingle Style
- shingled exterior
- band of sash windows
- intersecting planes of gable roof
- balcony
- veranda
- modified Palladian window
- eaves close to wall
- shingled porch post
Into the 20th Century
Sullivanesque
- oversized cornice
- wide ornamental frieze
- spandrels
- projecting bay windows
Chicago Style
Prairie Style
- low hip roof with wide eaves
- continuous casement windows
- chimney and raised center to pin the house down
- terraces and balconies
- brick walls with stone ledge
- Midwest regional Prairie style variation
- windows and door with leaded glass in geometric patterns
Craftsman Style
- broad gables at different heights
- exposed rafters and purlins under roof and dormers
- shingle siding
- porches and balconies with extended beams
- exterior siding of stucco
- exterior siding of brick
- exterior siding of stone
- exterior siding of wood
- broad gables with exposed rafters
- front porch
- stucco facade
- chimney with small tile roof
- low pitch red tile roof
- arched doorway with carved stone decoration
- window with wrought iron grill
- red tile roof
- red tile chimney roof
- wrought iron balconies
- carved stone crest
- arched entry with wooden door
- smooth wall surfaces
- metal casement windows
- vertical elements and stepped back facade
- geometric designed panel inserts above windows
- wrap-around windows
- flat roof with stepped parapet
- glass architectural blocks in vertical pattern
- carved decorative panels
- curved corners
- eyebrow canopies
- horizontal bands under windows
- plain white stucco
- concrete exterior
- ribbon windows
- plate glass windows
- flat roof without eaves
- cantilevered balconies
- corner windows
- ground pillars
- piloti
- curtain wall
- skeletal construction
Up to the Present and Beyond
- detailing
- wide gable with overhanging eaves
- large front porch
- hip roof with overhang
- dormer
- sash windows tucked under eaves
- stone foundation
- stone chimney
- stone porch
- wood shingle siding
- optional decoration
- classical detailing
- low hip roof
- low gable roof
- single story
- picture window
- garage facing street
- low pitch roof
- low pitch hip roof
- low pitch gable roof
- wood siding
- picture window
- split double story
Cotswold Cottage
- casement windows
- oversized chimney
- steep gable roof
- brick
- stone
- stucco
- half-timbering
Categorization by Architectural Feature
number of stories
Roof Type
Roof Material
- single sash window
- double sash window
- sash window with sidelights
- double hung window
- casement window
- transom window
- Palladian window
- bay window
- sliding window
- broken window
- awning window
- glass block window
door and window trim
porches
and other details
Source Citation
Glenn, Patricia Brown. Under Every Roof: A Kids’ Style and Field Guide to the Architecture of American Houses. Washington, DC: The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Inc., 1993.
Key Facts
At time of upload on June 15, 2024: