bearing wall
Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments
A wall that supports any vertical load (such as the floor, roof, or ceiling above) in addition to its own weight. A wall that does not support a vertical load is called a nonbearing wall, nonbearing partition, or simply partition. Photo from Edgar Tafel Townhouse, New York City, New York, 2005.(Phillips, 1994)