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The art and the practice of putting together material in such a way as to produce a structure of some elaboration; especially, in architectural usage, a dwelling house, hall for meeting, place of worship, or the like. 2. The structure so put together and composed. (Sturgis, 1900) Photo from Williamsburg, Virginia, 2017.
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- Architecture / Empire / Roman
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- speaking tube
- Architecture / Empire / Egypt
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- Downtown - Manchester, Vermont
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- boterasse
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- roof
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- elevator
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- hexastylos
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- framing
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- monopteron
- peripteral
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- workshop
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- wood
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- plan
- sheathing
- wet standpipe
- brick-front commercial building
- downspout
- shoring
- cast iron
- spindle frieze
- hypaethral
- Brandenburg Gate
- pentastylos
- heptastylar
- cone
- bourse
- Ka'ba
- projecting dormers
- landmark
- Thersilium
- entry
- coin
- orientation
- mosque
- axis
- merchants' hall
- pagoda
- figure sculpture
- panel
- panorama
- window surround
- window surrounds
- half-timber building
- half-timbered building
- facade
- wrap-around balcony
- wraparound porch
- shell
- cross gable
- exterior chimney
- inside chimney
- corn crib
- backhouse
- outhouse
- flower box
- schoolhouse
- pedimented frontispiece
- canted bay window
- brise-soleil
- canton
- crescent
- star anchor
- commercial building
- wall dormer
- wall dormers
- story
- storefront
- entrance
- frontispiece
- fieldstone
- Romanesque commercial building
- business block
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- bead
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- brick
- door
- gambrel roof
- batten
- door surround
- framing timber
- lean-to
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- lantern
- wood quoins
- vernacular
- window
- cornice
- cladding
- shutter
- band
- porch
- dependency
- podium
- curtain wall
- pier
- prefabricated
- skyscraper
- elevation
- tower
- shaft
- balcony
- Stacked Vertical Block
- blind
- quoins
- quoin
- quoin stone
- smooth ashlar quoins
- stone quoin
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- shutters
- apron
- cutaway porch
- terrace
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- Italianate commercial building
- cantilever
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- alleringe
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- café
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- historic districts
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- demolition
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- Preservation Plan for St. Louis (1995)
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- Loggia (2017)
- Glossary: Architectural Terms (2005)
- Common Architectural Styles and their Distinguishing Features (2005)
- Historic Preservation (2000)
- The Visual Dictionary of American Domestic Architecture (1997)
- American House Styles (2002)
- Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture (2000)
- What Style is it? (1983)
- A Concise History of American Architecture (1980)
- Identifying American Architecture (1977)
- American Architecture Since 1780 (1996)
- About.com (2009)
- Tudor History Architecture Glossary (2005)
- WebRef Architecture (2005)
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- English Church Architecture (2018)
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- Church Symbolism (1938)
- Architectural Description Guide (1978)
- The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986)
- Archetypes in Architecture (1985)
- Brunelleschi's Dome (2000)
- Architecture: From Prehistory to Modernity (2002)
- Thomas Jefferson's Monticello (2002)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture (2002)
- How to Complete the National Register Registration Form (1997)
- Adirondack Heritage (2007)
- Marble Institute (2011)
- Identification and Glossary of Terms (2018)
- A Guide to Architect Terms and Phrases (2018)
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- Preservation Science (2019)
- Architecture Dictionary (2023)
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- Study of the Orders (1906)
- Glossary of Log Construction
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- Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart (2020)
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- A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (1995)
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- Main Street Now - Birmingham, Alabama (2024), Part 2
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- on this site nothing happened
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- ashlaring
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- Architecture: Form, Space & Order (1979)
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- cantilevered
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- wood frame
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- rooftop deck
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- air shaft
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- passageway
- coursed adobe
- Understanding Architecture (1994)
- bearing element
- monumental architecture
- steel frame
- front elevation
- rough carpentry
- base-structure
- rectilinear
- roof terrace
- turriculated
- on-center entrance
- Glass Arts Collective - Chattanooga, Tennessee
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- adaptive use
- Drayton Hall - Charleston, South Carolina
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- semicircular porch
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- Campus Martius Park - Detroit, Michigan
- Storefront - County Club, Louisville, Kentucky
- springhouse
- biloggial
- date-stone
- Downtown - Saline, Michigan
- Do Better Project - Middlesboro, Kentucky
- Downtown - Farmington, Michigan
- Downtown - Millburn, New Jersey
- Grover Cleveland Service Area - Woodbridge Township, New Jersey
- Downtown - Elizabethtown, Kentucky
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- Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant - Highland Park, Michigan
- eagle
- inscription
- Downtown - Shelbyville, Kentucky
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- Union Station - Washington, D.C.
- bay
- Museum - William J. Clinton Presidential Museum and Park, Little Rock, Arkansas
- Lewes, Delaware
- Ferndale Way-finding Sign Project - Ferndale, Michigan
- Nardin Park United Methodist Church - Farmington Hills, Michigan
- Heritage Trail - New London, Connecticut
- Downtown - Owego, New York
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- Old Nassau County Courthouse - Garden City, New York
- Princeton Battlefield - Princeton, New Jersey
- Downtown - Hammonton, New Jersey
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- Armory Arts Project - Jackson, Michigan
- Bellemara Distillery - Hillsborough, New Jersey
- Visit to Berea, Kentucky
- Fort Saybrook - Old Saybrook, Connecticut
- hoisting beam
- Metropolitan United Methodist Church - Detroit, Michigan
- stone foundation
- false beam end
- Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, Michigan
- Downtown - New Orleans, Louisiana
- Schumm's Restaurant - Chelsea, Michigan
- Roosevelt Hospital - Edison, New Jersey
- Rutgers University - New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Downtown - New Brunswick, New Jersey
- St. Mary of Mount Virgin Church - New Brunswick, New Jersey
- rounded corners
- The Grammar of Ornament (1856)
- triangular prism buttress
- Downtown - Royal Oak, Michigan
- Detroit Riverwalk - Detroit, Michigan
- Visit to Manhattan - New York City, New York
- balk
- Mount Lebanon Shaker Society - New Lebanon, New York
- Museum - Peacock Room, Free Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia
- 4731 Gallery - Detroit, Michigan
- Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans (1923)
- brick quoins
- Downtown - Medford, New Jersey
- Waterloo Village - Stanhope, New Jersey
- Heritage Villa at Chestnut Square - McKinney, Texas
- Downtown - Perth Amboy, New Jersey
- Bell Labs - Holmdel, New Jersey
- multi-gabled roof
- projecting cornice
- Downtown - Traverse City, Michigan
- Visit to Baltimore - Baltimore, Maryland
- Downtown - Cocoa Beach, Florida
- Downtown - Harrisonburg, Virginia
- The Henry Ford - Dearborn, Michigan
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- Pillar to Post: English Architecture without Tears (1938)
- Albion, Michigan
- DeRidder, Louisiana
- Flat Rock, Michigan
- Projects
- Austin, Texas
- A-frame
- poured-in-place concrete
- Architectural Expressionism
- Pre-fab
- framed building
- offset gable
- Funeral of Doug McIntosh - Detroit, Michigan
- Historic Fort Wayne - Detroit, Michigan
- Downtown - Morristown, Tennessee
- Visit to Atlanta, Georgia
- National Register of Historic Places
- Downtown - Almont, Michigan
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- The Church at Clarendon - Washington, DC
- Farmers Market - Capitol Market, Charleston, West Virginia
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- City Market - Roanoke, Virginia
- lease-up period
- Tower - Ticinensis Gate, Milan, Italy
- Camp - Winnipeg, Canada
- Pan Am Place - Winnipeg, Canada
- Downtown - London, Kentucky
- Color & Light Festival - Asbury Park, New Jerseys
- The Homestead - Hot Springs, Virginia
- Clay Lancaster - Warwick, Kentucky
- Downtown - Danville, Kentucky
- The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Hanover, Pennsylvania
- Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York
- Visit to United States Botanic Garden - Washington, DC
- Downtown - Rochester, New York
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- Ransom Place - Indianapolis, Indiana
- Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City, New York
- Grand Concourse - New York City, New York
- mixed use
- Northern Manhattan - New York, New York
- cast concrete
- Brush Park - Detroit, Michigan
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- Visit to New Orleans, Louisiana
- Tom Riley Park - Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
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- Albion Interactive History / Stockwell Library
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- Architecture / Building / Uris Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- Ellis Frazer Ayers House, 428 Main St - Metuchen, New Jersey
- Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities
- Lean Livability: Making Lovable Places for $500 or Less
- Very Early English
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- The Concise Townscape (1961)
- Main Street Now - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Programmatic architecture
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- Detroit Zoo - Royal Oak, Michigan
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- Old Town - Lansing, Michigan
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- Museum - Newseum, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Visit to Jamestown, Virginia
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- Glossary of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
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- Downtown - Howell, Michigan
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- side gabled
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- Disney World - Orlando, Florida
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- Yard 56 - 5601 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Wonderworks
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- Abingdon Historic District - Abingdon, Virginia
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- atlantes
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- Ford Orientation Center and Donald W. Reynolds Museum - Mount Vernon, Virginia
- The Hermitage - Hermitage, Tennessee
- Downtown - Keyport, New Jersey
- Old City - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Bike Trail - Middlesboro, Kentucky
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- Field Notes: Two Sided Signs
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- Visit to Jersey City, New Jersey
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- Downtown - Carteret, New Jersey
- Colonial Williamsburg: The Guide (2019)
- Downtown - Hanover, Pennsylvania
- cantilevered pediment
- guardhouse
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- dairy
- kick
- Visit to Newport, Rhode Island
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- Westside Provisions District - Atlanta, Georgia
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- Hoboken Walking Tour - Hoboken, New Jersey
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- articulate
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- palace-front
- Gothic Drawing and Drawings in the Gothic Tradition in the Iberian Peninsula (2023)
- Architecture in Archaeology (2019)
- Far Eastern University
- Architectural Symbols (2025)
- Our Vanishing Landscape
- The Story of Buildings: From the Pyramids to the Sydney Opera House and Beyond (2014)
- 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)
- Effect of buttress form on transverse seismic resistance of high masonry walls (2021)
- Fort Hindman (2025)
- Architecture: From the Pyramids to Post Modernism (2001)
- Craftsmen's Tools and Books (1960)
- Main Street Glossary (2025)
- deferred maintenance
- inappropriate alterations
- Three American Architects (1991)
- Anatomy of a Main Street Building (2023)
- Architects Without Borders (2014)
- The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (2019)