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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)
- How the Progressive Republican who Named Metuchen, New Jersey, ‘The Brainy Borough’ was Run Out of Town
- Field Notes: Conversation Landscape
- Field Notes : Sandwich Board
- imaginary architecture
- Case Study of 'Detroit Through the Years'
- Field Notes
- mountain laurel
- Downriver Review - Letters from Louisiana
- Two Approaches to City Building
- The Spirit of Wyandotte
- What Will Happen With the Marx Brewing Company Site?
- Preserving Wyandotte’s Theater
- Making Better Public Spaces in Downtown Wyandotte
- The Saga of the Eberts House Continues
- Clever Costume of the 1893 First Commercial Bank
- Wyandotte’s Historic Marx Theatre
- Downtown - Manchester, Vermont
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- parade ground
- scroll moulding
- 15 over 1
- woodblock print
- printing frame
- statehouse
- timberyard
- cater
- newelled stair
- 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
- Downtown - Toms River, New Jersey
- Downtown - Cranford, New Jersey
- Main Street Now - Boston, Massachusetts (2023)
- Under Every Roof (1993)
- Glossary: Architectural Terms (2005)
- Tudor History Architecture Glossary (2005)
- 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)
- Architecture Dictionary (2023)
- Adrian Architecture (2023)
- acqueduct
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- art gallery
- ASTM
- Beaux-Arts Style
- book
- circumcision
- Constantine
- doorways
- Eclectic Style
- libraries
- Spanish roof tile
- From Abacus to Zeus (1968)
- Rediscovering Art Deco U.S.A. (2002)
- Downtown - Florence, South Carolina (2023)
- Downtown - Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Downtown - Occoquan, Virginia
- Downtown - Suffern, New York
- The Great Elephant March - New York City, New York
- Architecture: Form, Space & Order (1979)
- cantilevered
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- Sesquicentennial Tour - Wyandotte, Michigan
- cross brace
- Serlian window
- Saint Bernard
- twin stone arch bridge
- Downtown - Saline, Michigan
- Creative Placemaking Bootcamp
- America's Historic Triangle - Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown, Virginia
- Downtown - Trenton, Michigan
- Dedo
- Illustrated Glossary of Architecture, 850-1830 (1966)
- Downtown - Ferndale, Michigan
- Visit to Manhattan - New York City, New York
- streetcar
- Heritage Villa at Chestnut Square - McKinney, Texas
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- Downtown - Traverse City, Michigan
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- French Lick Resort - French Lick, Indiana
- Pillar to Post: English Architecture without Tears (1938)
- Our Vanishing Landscape (1955)
- CMU
- Funeral of Doug McIntosh - Detroit, Michigan
- Farmers Market - East End Market, Orlando, Florida
- Knox Street - Dallas, Texas
- Parkville Market - Hartford, Connecticut
- Greektown
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- Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York
- Northern Manhattan - New York, New York
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- Brush Park - Detroit, Michigan
- Visit to Wyandotte, Michigan
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- Santa Maria del Fiore - Florence, Italy
- photovoltaic solar water heating system
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- jiashan
- Glossary of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
- Visit to Woodward Avenue - Detroit, Michigan
- Downtown - Marshall, Michigan
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- vacancy
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- pot ash
- rubbed brickwork
- Visit to Newport, Rhode Island
- Rice’s Language of Buildings (2009)
- Glossary of Colonial Williamsburg
- service hall
- Far Eastern University (2025)
- Architectural Symbols (2025)
- West Palm Beach (2025)
- Illyrian World: Architecture, Rituals, Gods and Religion (2022)
- 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)
- nidhogg
- amphiptere
- Our Lady of Victory
- Wall Street
- Main Street America Weekly (2025)
- Saint Sebastian
- Saint Ignatius
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- Saint Catherine of Siena
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- Agony in the Garden
- Saint Crysanthus
- AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC (1994)
- block and tackle
- building block
- concrete tile
- new materials
- dragged
- fuller
- gin block
- hoisting block
- brick-faced tenement
- snatch-block sheave
- block length
- block and block
- TC BLK
- gate block
- rock face
- upper capital
- crossbar
- Eclectic Town Houses
- chock-a-block
- concrete block foundation
- CONC BLK
- standing-end
- chicago boom
- post in the ground
- frame pulley
- pillow block
- granite block
- Hydrostone
- cross tooth-chiseled
- coak
- dressed faced
- uses
- Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism (1986)
- camelback roof
- In memory of my mom
- Buildings of Michigan (1993)
- Pompeii Archaeological Park - Pompeii, Italy
- terracotta pipe
- millstones
- Saint Expeditus
- core of the capital
- The Sourcebook of Decorative Stone (2007)
- A Preservation Primer for the Property Owner (1978)
- Inigo Jones (1966)
- An Illustrated Dictionary of The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya (1997)
- split rain leader
- Here is New York (1949)
- Cortex - St. Louis
- St. Louis Cathedral Basilica - St. Louis, Missouri
- womb chair
- wrought iron dome
- occasional table
- bar lock
- snowflake panel
- sewing chair
- pier table
- monopod
- brocaded silk
- Cherokee red
- Downtown - Lawrenceville, New Jersey
- Visit to Oyster Bay, New York
- tree well grate
- meditative niche
- Architecture / Skin / Window
- How to Transform Your Downtown in 48 Hours
- How Tactical Urbanism Can Help Build a #BetterMainStreet
- 48 Hours, 48 Months, 48 Years: A Planning Innovation - Oyster Bay, New York
- About Us
- column
- corbel
- baluster
- clapboard
- abacus
- molding
- atrium
- base
- balcony
- ridge
- gambrel roof
- canopy
- Arabesque
- roof
- cusp
- concrete
- segmental arch
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- tile
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- plank
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- verge board
- attic story
- perspective
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- concrete block
- keel
- ridge pole
- roll molding
- rondel
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- shouldered arch
- gain
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- post office
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- Mayan architecture
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- rendering
- chimney shaft
- urinal
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- plain tile
- reel
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- Queen Anne window
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- doorstop
- log cabin
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- Elysée
- attached column
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- rubble masonry
- corbels
- ogee roof
- saw-tooth roof
- wyvern
- quinquefoil
- crenelet
- crow-stepped gable
- leaf-and-dart
- leaf and dart
- beak molding
- reverse ogee
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- keel moulding
- window surround
- pulley
- compass window
- pivoted window
- rondelles
- rood stairs
- ailure
- pseudo-dipteros
- Welsh arch
- archaeology
- Ideal City
- sprinkler system
- solid bridging
- common brick
- tou
- cima
- Lesbian cymantium
- geometric tracery
- clearstorey
- vyse
- Architecture Dictionary
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- Jane Jacobs West Village Walking Tour - New York, New York
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- Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities
- Architecture / Building / Substructure
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- Architecture / Empire / Egypt
- Skyscraper! Achievement & Impact, Liberty Science Center - Jersey City, New Jersey
- surface arcade
- Richardsonian arch
- double keystone
- headwork
- key console
- gate chamber
- spindle frieze
- ceiling medallion
- gray scale
- limen superum
- Classical door surround
- mansarde
- unit block
- palladiana
- coursed
- cast-concrete block
- block and cross bond
- single Flemish bond
- Flemish diagonal
- Flemish garden wall
- random course
- range masonry
- crowfooted
- padstone
- flush bead molding
- borstle
- talon molding
- egg and dart moulding
- lily
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- aligreek
- labryinth fret
- rope torus
- zig-zag
- cane
- peardrop
- buhl and counter
- encrustation
- bar in pale
- bendy
- bordure
- bordure embattled
- double arched
- formy fitchy cross
- fretty
- fretty cross
- parted cross
- per bend
- per bend sinister
- per pale sinister half per fess
- semy de lys
- undy
- fourchée cross
- increscent
- wake knot
- floral motif
- Greek meander
- checkerboard
- figure sculpture
- fireplace lintel
- splayed lintel
- pilaster base
- counterscarp wall
- Catherine-wheel window
- six-over-six window
- row window
- two-over-two window
- window lift
- window stile
- dome skylight
- shouldered window
- assize
- amphi-antis
- hexastylos
- spalling
- steel column
- Adam
- cross botonée
- cross cramponée
- cross fleurettée
- cross moline
- cross recercellée
- Communion-rail
- retablo
- Bigallo
- Blenheim Palace
- Erecthion
- popie
- Thesilium
- alleringe
- kernel
- clock
- arcaded block commercial building
- continuous business block
- corner business block
- corner commercial building
- ground-plan
- Roman Doric portico
- butsu
- teahouse
- passageway
- choir loft
- fireplace walls
- blue print
- cokel
- mensole
- quintefoil
- solid newel stair
- solid screw stair
- turriculated
- vergeboards
- vys
- wreath staircase
- wreathe
- Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture (2000)
- American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940 (1988)
- Identifying American Architecture (1977)
- chimney cap hood
- brick-front commercial building
- colonial kitchen
- iron-front commercial building
- shopping-mall
- tea-house
- sculpture gallery
- Common Architectural Styles and their Distinguishing Features (2005)
- What Style is it? (1983)
- American House Styles (2002)
- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture (1997)
- Principles of Architecture (1990)
- Adirondack Heritage (2007)
- A Concise History of American Architecture (1980)
- Dictionary of Architecture (1952)
- Sturgis' Dictionary (1901)
- About.com (2009)
- A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (1995)
- ABC's of Architecture (1998)
- House Histories (1989)
- AIA Guide to New York City (2000)
- Old House Dictionary (1994)
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Downtown
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Congregational Church
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Joe Kirby House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Bishop House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Hurst House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Gartner Home
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / 214 Cedar Street
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / St. John United Church of Christ
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Rivers Edge Gallery
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Marx Brewery
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Bishop Park
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of J.H. Bishop Company
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of 1st City Hall
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / 1842 2nd Street
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- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / J.B. Ford Company Office
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Site of Ford Village Municipal Building
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / 3334 5th Street
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Karth House
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Roosevelt High School
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / 335 Cherry Street
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / St. Helena Roman Catholic Church
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / BASF Waterfront Park
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks
- Albion Interactive History / Adobe House
- Albion Interactive History / Bonta Admissions Building
- Albion Interactive History / Goodrich Chapel
- Albion Interactive History / Stockwell Library
- Albion Interactive History / 313 Austin Avenue
- Albion Interactive History / Austin Ave Roadhouse
- The Architecture, Art, and Culture of Savannah, Georgia
- Albion Interactive History / 118 East Michigan Avenue
- Albion Interactive History / Central School
- Ferndale Way-finding Sign Project - Ferndale, Michigan
- Central Building and Changes to Campus - Albion, Michigan
- Albion Interactive History / Albion College
- A Travelers Guide - Chichen Itza, Mexico
- Albion Interactive History / Maps / Sanborn Maps (1866)
- 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)
- Albion Interactive History / Library / “Historic Preservation: Selected Sites of Downtown Albion (1991)
- Albion Interactive History / Library / Superior Street Commercial Historic District (1996)
- Albion Interactive History / Map
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks / 34111
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks / 34119
- Visitor Information Center - New Haven, Connecticut
- Albion Interactive History / Blocks / 36411
- Field Notes: Heritage Tourism - Easton, Maryland
- Re-Imagining Downtown DeRidder - DeRidder, Louisiana
- Eureka Iron & Steel Works Headquarters - Wyandotte, Michigan
- Meeting Edgar Tafel, an 'Apprentice to Genius' - New York, New York
- Camp Boiberik and Omega Institute - Rhinebeck, New York
- Albion Interactive History / Businesses / Albion Malleable
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- Albion, Michigan
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- the spot MKE - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- River Walk - San Antonio, Texas
- Downtown - East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
- Old Town - Lansing, Michigan
- 3D Crosswalk - Metuchen, New Jersey
- Architecture / Style - old
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- Art Deco
- A History of Western Architecture (1996)
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- 30 Ideas in 30 Days - Better Block Middlesborough
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- clasping buttress
- tank
- Albion Interactive History / Library / Bowling Alone
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- Architecture / Design / Composition / Vitruvian Triad
- corner buttress
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- full-dovetail
- half-lap miter
- Lancaster Square
- logarithmic spiral
- modillion blocks
- modillioned cornice
- Philadelphia Square
- public square
- rain garden
- arch surround
- Downtown - Staunton, Virginia
- Field Notes: The BOB - Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Storefront - Bloom City, New York City, New York
- Public Art - Os Gemos Mural, New York City, New York
- Public Art - Kobra Mural, New York City, New York
- Storefront - Coin Slot, Traverse City, Michigan
- Storefront - Gallaghers, New York City, New York
- Church - Pisa Cathedral, Pisa, Italy
- Storefront - 12 Farms Restaurant, Hightstown, New Jersey
- Pallet Chair - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Games - Jumbo Scrabble
- Transformation Strategies Yield Results for Downtown Metuchen
- Urban Trails - Downtown Heritage Trail, Civil War to Civil Rights, Washington, District of Columbia
- Field Notes: Aleworks - Williamsburg, Virginia
- Robinvale - Metuchen, New Jersey
- Robins Park - Metuchen, New Jersey
- Fairmount Park, Section 2 - Metuchen, New Jersey
- Krämer Family Farm - Westphalia, Michigan
- Field Notes: Parklet - South Orange, New Jersey
- Downtown - Cooperstown, New York
- bowen knot
- bourchier knot
- Better Block Middlesboro 2013 - Middlesboro, Kentucky
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- per fess per pale
- barry
- bezanty
- embattled grady
- Two-Part Commercial Block
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- Enframed Window Wall
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- Enframed Block
- Two-Part Vertical Block
- 4 over 4
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- Creole cottage
- Town of Clinton Historic District - Clinton, New Jersey
- Architecture / Building / Capitalization
- Architectural Styles (1979)
- gold
- flower box
- Greek Revival town house
- corbiesteps
- pitch faced
- ashler
- yellow pine
- Americans Return to Main Street – Review of Main Street’s Comeback by Mary Means
- How We Neglected Public Space in the US, and How to Make it Better
- Noah Brown of Amelia County (VA) and Metuchen (NJ)
- octostyle
- bead and reel molding
- Swiss Chalet
- monument
- Field Notes: McGraw Square - Seattle, Washington
- Tudor Arch
- forum
- catapult
- Field Notes: Pershing Square Plaza - New York City, New York
- Church - San Michele in Foro, Lucca, Italy
- Heritage Trail - New London, Connecticut
- Downtown - Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- Oval Office
- parqueterie
- zigzag
- arbalisteria
- arena
- wall dormers
- transept
- Downtown - Rahway, New Jersey
- Museum - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin Texas
- batter
- land sale contract
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- Opportunities for Historic Preservation in Flat Rock
- cornice bracket
- The National Trust's New Logo - A Bold Step Forward
- Architecture / Style / Gothic Revival
- modillions
- flue
- modillion band
- opus caementicium
- EPCOT
- esplanade
- adobe bricks
- Euterpe
- impost
- Nero
- A Young Person's Guide to New Orleans Houses (1992)
- hood
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- periptere
- colonnade
- frette
- ward
- vis
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- mezzanine
- fort
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- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / St. Stephens Episcopal Church
- Fifth Ave Tower Plaza - New York City, New York
- Wayne State University President Dr. Reid Legacy - Detroit, Michigan
- antiquity
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Marx-Polley House
- perclose
- Understanding Architecture (1994)
- Albion Interactive History / People / Warren Kessler
- Michael
- Downtown - Morristown, Tennessee
- lancet
- staircase
- brazier
- crenellated
- bay
- Tiffany shade
- geometrical stair
- quatro round
- stockade
- putlog-hole
- spall
- double notch
- stoa
- abat-voix
- fenestration
- parking lot
- tie
- balconette
- bareer
- faux bois
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- Architecture / Empire / Persian
- graffiti
- supercolumniation
- feng
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- jerkinhead
- icon
- Corinthian
- strap hinge
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Pulaski Park
- pillar
- head molding
- nave