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- aerodrome: A building in which aircraft are stored and tested.
- alcantara: In Spanish building and archaeology, a bridge.
- ambivium: An ancient Roman road or street that went around a site rather than through it.
- avenue: A wide street, usually planted with trees; generally straight. 2. A way of approach or access.
- bascule bridge: A bridge having a balancing section to form a drawbridge.
- boat house: A house at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats.
- carport: Shelter for the automobile in conjunction with a dwelling; usually roofed, but not fully enclosed, thus differentiated from the garage.
- carrefour: An open place from which a number of streets or avenues radiate. 2. By extension, any crossroad or junction. 3. A public square or plaza.
- carriage house: A building or part thereof for housing carriages when not in use.
- carriagehouse: Outbuilding for storage of a carriage.
- clapper bridge: Crude bridge structure made of large slabs of stone.
- clapper-bridge: See bridge.
- coach house: A building or part thereof for housing carriages when not in use.
- coach-house: Building, subservient to the manor house, for carriages.
- depot: A railroad station. 2. A storage or collection center. 3. In France, a building for military storage.
- garage: Room or separate building for housing motor vehicles.
- gare: A railroad station.
- gate house: Either a small outbuilding or a relatively large house beside a gateway to a mansion or manor house where the gatekeeper resides to allow or disallow entrance to the grounds.
- gate-house: Dwelling or office at or over the entrance to a park, cemetery, country-estate, etc., e.g. a lodge. 2. Apartment over the gate of a city, palace, etc.
- lighthouse: A tower-like building to hold and serve a guiding light with its individual characteristics, usually on a coast.
- Palladian bridge: See bridge.
- pharos: In ancient Greek and Roman architecture, a lighthouse.
- pont: In French, a bridge; sometimes, in combination, forming the proper name of an important bridge which is not connected with the geographical name of the place.
- ponte: In Italian, a bridge.
- railway building: Any structure especially prepared for the business of a railroad or railway; especially such a building as is of peculiar fashion and construction, as fit for that service only, or chiefly…
- roundhouse: A shelter for locomotives, centering upon a turntable.
- subway: Underground public transportation line.
- tipple house: A rough shed or house to protect the tipples or dumps of a coal mine.
- tolbooth: Same as toll booth.
- toll booth: Same as toll booth.
- tollbooth: A stall or office where tolls in any sense are to be paid; hence, by extension, in a way variously explained, a jail, especially in Scotland.
- tollhouse: A house near a tollgate of a highway or bridge, serving as the residence of the keeper. 2. A tollbooth.
Also see Architecture index.