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The space, and buildings, contained within an unintersected perimeter of streets in the gridiron plan; it may contain alleys or cul-de-sacs. Photo from Concord, New Hampshire, 2023. (Saylor, 1952)
- Houses in Time (1997)
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- modillion blocks
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- shutters
- block modillion
- rusticated
- base
- corbel table
- wyvern
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- The American Glossary of Architectural Terms (1887)
- A Glossary of Colonial Architectural Terms (1928)
- Gimli Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee (2018)
- Preservation Plan for St. Louis (1995)
- Terminal A - Newark, New Jersey
- doorstop
- Downtown - Toms River, New Jersey
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- Main Street Now - Boston, Massachusetts (2023)
- Under Every Roof (1993)
- Glossary: Architectural Terms (2005)
- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture (1997)
- Tudor History Architecture Glossary (2005)
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- American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940 (1988)
- Sturgis' Dictionary (1901)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture (1977)
- English Church Architecture (2018)
- Glossary of architecture (2018)
- The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986)
- Architecture: From Prehistory to Modernity (2002)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture (2002)
- Marble Institute (2011)
- Identification and Glossary of Terms (2018)
- A Guide to Architect Terms and Phrases (2018)
- Historic Environment Scotland (2018)
- Glossary of Bridge Terminology (2019)
- Historic Ipswich (2021)
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- From Abacus to Zeus (1968)
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- Downtown - Florence, South Carolina (2023)
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- Beaux-Arts Style
- Sesquicentennial Tour - Wyandotte, Michigan
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- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Bishop Park
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- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Gartner Home
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- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Bishop House
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- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of J.H. Bishop Company
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Joe Kirby House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Marx Brewery
- Serlian window
- Re-Imagining Downtown DeRidder - DeRidder, Louisiana
- Downtown - Saline, Michigan
- corbels
- Ferndale Way-finding Sign Project - Ferndale, Michigan
- Downtown - Cooperstown, New York
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- Dedo
- Illustrated Glossary of Architecture, 850-1830 (1966)
- Enframed Window Wall
- Visit to Manhattan - New York City, New York
- Downtown - Ferndale, Michigan
- streetcar
- Heritage Villa at Chestnut Square - McKinney, Texas
- Downtown - Traverse City, Michigan
- Downtown - Delphos, Ohio
- French Lick Resort - French Lick, Indiana
- Architecture / Style / Art Deco
- Pillar to Post: English Architecture without Tears (1938)
- Albion, Michigan
- Saginaw, Michigan
- CMU
- Funeral of Doug McIntosh - Detroit, Michigan
- Downtown - Morristown, Tennessee
- Farmers Market - East End Market, Orlando, Florida
- Knox Street - Dallas, Texas
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- the spot MKE - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Northern Manhattan - New York, New York
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- Albion Interactive History / Central School
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- Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities
- Architecture / Religion / Catholic Church
- Visit to Wyandotte, Michigan
- Krämer Family Farm - Westphalia, Michigan
- Downtown - Pineville, Kentucky
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- Old Town - Lansing, Michigan
- Downtown - Newberry, South Carolina
- Architecture / Building / Hyphen
- Glossary of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
- Visit to Woodward Avenue - Detroit, Michigan
- America's Historic Triangle - Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown, Virginia
- Downtown - Staunton, Virginia
- Downtown - Maysville, Kentucky
- Downtown - Marshall, Michigan
- rain garden
- Downtown - Glassboro, New Jersey
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- Downtown - Asheville, North Carolina
- Agora, High Line - New York City, New York
- Visit to Newport, Rhode Island
- Rice’s Language of Buildings (2009)
- Glossary of Colonial Williamsburg
- Architectural Symbols (2025)
- Far Eastern University (2025)
- Our Vanishing Landscape (1955)
- Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion (2022)
- West Palm Beach (2025)
- New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center (2025)
- Construction Terms (2024)
- Craftsmen's Tools and Books (1960)
- Main Street Glossary (2025)
- Anatomy of a Main Street Building (2023)
- Main Street America Weekly (2025)
- palladiana
- Saint Catherine of Siena
- Saint Sebastian
- AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC (1994)
- Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism (1986)
- In memory of my mom
- Buildings of Michigan (1993)
- terracotta pipe
- Saint Expeditus
- Constantine
- The Sourcebook of Decorative Stone (2007)
- A Preservation Primer for the Property Owner (1978)
- Inigo Jones (1966)
- Here is New York (1949)
- St. Louis Cathedral Basilica - St. Louis, Missouri
- chord
- timberyard
- block and tackle
- dripstone
- amphi-antis
- post in the ground
- dragged
- pivoted window
- Camp Boiberik and Omega Institute - Rhinebeck, New York
- South Street Seaport - New York City, New York
- perron
- Albion Interactive History / Library / Superior Street Commercial Historic District (1996)
- bar lock
- full-dovetail
- split rain leader
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / 3334 5th Street
- rood
- Wall Street
- pier table
- rectory
- yellow pine
- Visitor Information Center - New Haven, Connecticut
- cove molding
- sunk fillet
- urinal
- steel column
- Public Art - Os Gemos Mural, New York City, New York
- Agony in the Garden
- clapboard
- Architectural Styles (1979)
- Preserving Wyandotte’s Theater
- brocaded silk
- shopping-mall
- uses
- eyebrow dormer
- winder
- Art Deco
- hood moulding
- sewing chair
- bead
- Albion Interactive History / Map
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / 335 Cherry Street
- 15 over 1
- saw-tooth roof
- abat-sons
- segmental arch
- How We Neglected Public Space in the US, and How to Make it Better
- cross botonée
- demilune
- ogee roof
- concrete
- rondel
- popie
- statehouse
- floral motif
- double arched
- upper capital
- mountain laurel
- formy fitchy cross
- snowflake panel
- cross tooth-chiseled
- spalling
- curia
- range masonry
- fresco
- verge board
- parted cross
- quintefoil
- ashler
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Roosevelt High School
- gate chamber
- wreathe
- roof
- log cabin
- The Spirit of Wyandotte
- principal rafter
- cater
- cane
- Architecture / Building / Capitalization
- Architecture / Skin / Dormer
- Robinvale - Metuchen, New Jersey
- asymmetry
- dome skylight
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / J.B. Ford Company Office
- denticulated
- Principles of Architecture (1990)
- mansarde
- Field Notes: Aleworks - Williamsburg, Virginia
- About Us
- bendy
- Bryant Park - New York City, New York
- window surround
- baluster
- Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture (2000)
- wrought iron dome
- ridge pole
- Storefront - Bloom City, New York City, New York
- Eureka Iron & Steel Works Headquarters - Wyandotte, Michigan
- American House Styles (2002)
- An Illustrated Dictionary of The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (1997)
- Meeting Edgar Tafel, an 'Apprentice to Genius' - New York, New York
- manse
- cove
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Karth House
- The Great Elephant March - New York City, New York
- clearstorey
- Old House Dictionary (1994)
- Field Notes : Sandwich Board
- hexastylos
- Flemish diagonal
- fireplace walls
- CONC BLK
- quinquefoil
- apodyterium
- solid screw stair
- fireplace lintel
- embattled grady
- post office
- 4 over 4
- profile
- coak
- scrollwork
- Field Notes
- atrium
- veneer
- tile
- balcony
- attic story
- granite block
- 3D Crosswalk - Metuchen, New Jersey
- chimney cap hood
- circumcision
- cushion
- A Concise History of American Architecture (1980)
- flush bead molding
- A History of Western Architecture (1996)
- dovetail
- Architecture / Building / Substructure
- arched impost
- A Travelers Guide - Chichen Itza, Mexico
- rondelles
- ABC's of Architecture (1998)
- A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (1995)
- About.com (2009)
- Storefront - Coin Slot, Traverse City, Michigan
- AIA Guide to New York City (2000)
- Albion Interactive History / Adobe House
- moulding
- order
- pitch faced
- Albion Interactive History / Bonta Admissions Building
- rendering
- Storefront - 12 Farms Restaurant, Hightstown, New Jersey
- Albion Interactive History / 313 Austin Avenue
- Albion Interactive History / Goodrich Chapel
- Albion Interactive History / Businesses / Albion Malleable
- Architecture: Form, Space & Order (1979)
- station
- spindle frieze
- Blenheim Palace
- diastyle
- perspective
- cross recercellée
- block and cross bond
- double keystone
- Welsh arch
- fuller
- sprinkler system
- Lancaster Square
- ASTM
- Erecthion
- Our Lady of Victory
- cross brace
- hoisting block
- spur
- compass window
- bordure
- gate block
- palmate
- Philadelphia Square
- undy
- tou
- row window
- ailure
- headwork
- Lesbian cymantium
- Public Art - Kobra Mural, New York City, New York
- per pale sinister half per fess
- building block
- window lift
- leaf-and-dart
- espalier
- chicago boom
- hipped gable
- gray scale
- Games - Jumbo Scrabble
- Mayan architecture
- increscent
- Two Approaches to City Building
- Colonial Revival
- Enframed Block
- twin stone arch bridge
- leaf and dart
- embowed
- tazza
- rubble masonry
- buhl and counter
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks / 34111
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks / 34119
- crenelet
- false front
- Architecture / Building / Church
- Architecture / Skin / Window
- rock face
- Albion Interactive History / Albion Story / Urban Renewal
- Field Notes: The BOB - Grand Rapids, Michigan
- concrete block
- bordure embattled
- Central Building and Changes to Campus - Albion, Michigan
- cross fleurettée
- crowstep
- Classical door surround
- vys
- Saint Bernard
- cross moline
- plain tile
- retablo
- newelled stair
- agraffe
- assize
- two-over-two window
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / St. Helena Roman Catholic Church
- block and block
- cubic capital
- Greek Revival town house
- window stile
- figure sculpture
- scagliola
- penthouse
- fretty
- coursed
- Central Block with Wings
- scroll moulding
- crowfooted
- Greek meander
- flower box
- cusp
- checkerboard
- outlook
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks
- range
- curb
- gutter
- core of the capital
- zig-zag
- occasional table
- drop
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / BASF Waterfront Park
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks / 36411
- colonial kitchen
- abacus
- The Saga of the Eberts House Continues
- choir loft
- sash weight
- gold
- Roman Doric portico
- ground-plan
- blue print
- per fess per pale
- egg and dart moulding
- labryinth fret
- tea-house
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- alleringe
- pillow block
- keel
- tank
- cramp-iron
- attached column
- factory
- gain
- vyse
- quirk bead
- external buttresses
- butsu
- ridge
- camelback roof
- Eclectic Town Houses
- breezeway
- Creole cottage
- Albion Interactive History / Austin Ave Roadhouse
- monopteron
- mouchette
- Americans Return to Main Street – Review of Main Street’s Comeback by Mary Means
- impluvium
- cantilevered
- reel
- Field Notes: Conversation Landscape
- Arabesque
- dyostyle
- Storefront - Gallaghers, New York City, New York
- clasping buttress
- cross cramponée
- corbiesteps
- Elysée
- borstle
- dressed faced
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / 1842 2nd Street
- solid bridging
- clock
- talon molding
- 6 over 9
- random course
- Richardsonian arch
- propylaea
- per bend
- geometric tracery
- chock-a-block
- imaginary architecture
- communion table
- cokel
- jiashan
- crow-stepped gable
- keel moulding
- bezanty
- beak molding
- Flemish garden wall
- key console
- semy de lys
- iron work
- pilaster base
- chimney shaft
- frame pulley
- Two-Part Vertical Block
- hammer beam
- Town of Clinton Historic District - Clinton, New Jersey
- Albion Interactive History / Albion College
- gambrel roof
- Identifying American Architecture (1977)
- Spanish roof tile
- photovoltaic solar water heating system
- column
- bearing wall
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Downtown
- lily
- Parkville Market - Hartford, Connecticut
- Urban Trails - Downtown Heritage Trail, Civil War to Civil Rights, Washington, District of Columbia
- peardrop
- Albion Interactive History / Stockwell Library
- Architecture / Style - old
- roll molding
- Adam
- Robins Park - Metuchen, New Jersey
- printing frame
- per bend sinister
- plank
- concrete block foundation
- bourchier knot
- archaeology
- pycnostyle
- wreath staircase
- barry
- pot ash
- vergeboards
- logarithmic spiral
- common brick
- unit block
- Communion-rail
- monopod
- limen superum
- aligreek
- arch surround
- mensole
- padstone
- Hydrostone
- shouldered arch
- book
- reverse ogee
- cima
- bowen knot
- elliptical arch
- organic architecture
- nidhogg
- Queen Anne window
- counterscarp wall
- Albion Interactive History / Library / A Short History of Albion (1966)
- Albion Interactive History / Library / Albion Area Historical Architectural Survey” (1985)
- Albion Interactive History / Library / Birds Eye View of the City of Albion (1988)
- Pallet Chair - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Albion Interactive History / Library / “Historic Preservation: Selected Sites of Downtown Albion (1991)
- millstones
- Albion Interactive History / Library / Bowling Alone
- solid newel stair
- Albion Interactive History / Maps / Sanborn Maps (1866)
- Albion Interactive History / Parks
- amphiptere
- Adirondack Heritage (2007)
- Albion Interactive History / 118 East Michigan Avenue
- womb chair
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of 1st City Hall
- acqueduct
- House Histories (1989)
- Saint Ignatius
- TC BLK
- bastion
- art gallery
- valley
- parterre
- Catherine-wheel window
- rubbed brickwork
- half-lap miter
- stop
- Art Moderne
- new materials
- corner buttress
- Saint Crysanthus
- bichoca
- brick-faced tenement
- Architecture / Design / Composition / Vitruvian Triad
- encrustation
- Bigallo
- pseudo-dipteros
- Thesilium
- wing
- surface arcade
- Neo-Classical
- Gibbs surround
- concrete tile
- Eclectic Style
- six-over-six window
- sculpture gallery
- Ideal City
- block length
- rood stairs
- snatch-block sheave
- Common Architectural Styles and their Distinguishing Features (2005)
- wake knot
- encircling porch
- vacancy
- crossbar
- molding
- Architecture Dictionary
- Albion Interactive History / Organizations / Goodwill Singers
- Chateauesque
- Cherokee red
- pulley
- Case Study of 'Detroit Through the Years'
- doorways
- Jane Jacobs West Village Walking Tour - New York, New York
- ceiling medallion
- gin block
- splayed lintel
- canopy
- Albion Interactive History / Businesses / US Post Office
- turriculated
- rope torus
- fourchée cross
- modillioned cornice
- kernel
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Ford Village Municipal Building
- teahouse
- What Style is it? (1983)
- public square
- single Flemish bond
- bar in pale
- fretty cross
- gryphon
- shouldered window
- octostyle
- parade ground
- standing-end
- service hall
- Church - Pisa Cathedral, Pisa, Italy
- Downtown - Lawrenceville, New Jersey
- Cortex - St. Louis