Design
Isaac Kremer/ January 14, 2018/ / 0 comments
One of the Main Street Approach’s Four Points; addresses getting Main Street into top physical shape and creating a safe and inviting atmosphere, or a sense of place; stresses the importance of quality design in physical elements of a district. (Davis, 2025)
- Architecture / Empire / England & Britain
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- The Architecture, Art, and Culture of Savannah, Georgia
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- About Us
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- Creating Experiences on Main Street
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- Zoroastrianism
- Architecture / Origin / Greek
- Architecture / Empire / Persian
- Art Deco Style (2021)
- Arts and Crafts movement
- movement
- Chinoiserie
- Federal
- Adamesque
- Adamesque Federalist
- Federalist
- arcaded block commercial building
- corner commercial building
- suburban cottage
- corner window
- trefoil
- crow-steps
- wallpaper
- mansard cottage
- cornice return
- foliate
- Beaux Arts architecture
- anthemion
- brick-front commercial building
- Bauhaus
- architect
- draft
- knot
- commercial building
- frontispiece
- business block
- continuous business block
- station
- Picturesque
- corner business block
- waterleaf and tongue molding
- Italianate commercial building
- stringcourse
- crenelet
- machicolation
- Renaissance architecture
- water leaf
- corner block
- local historic district
- railroad station
- trefoil tracery
- trefoil arch with tracery
- kneeling window
- rond-point
- Style Empire
- à la Grecque
- Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America (1988)
- scholar's garden
- Creating the Artful Home: The Aesthetic Movement (2006)
- Downtown - Akron, Ohio
- Museum - Newseum, Washington, District of Columbia
- Architecture Dictionary
- Gimli Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee (2018)
- Double-Diamond Design
- stylized letter forms
- Main Street Now - Birmingham, Alabama (2024)
- Downtown - Cranford, New Jersey
- Porch Design (1994)
- Under Every Roof (1993)
- The Power of Partnerships (2020)
- Loggia (2017)
- Common Architectural Styles and their Distinguishing Features (2005)
- American House Styles (2002)
- Buildings of Main Street: A Guide to American Commercial Architecture (2000)
- What Style is it? (1983)
- Identifying American Architecture (1977)
- American Architecture Since 1780 (1996)
- About.com (2009)
- Dictionary of Architecture (1952)
- American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940 (1988)
- Sturgis' Dictionary (1901)
- Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture (1977)
- English Church Architecture (2018)
- Glossary of architecture (2018)
- Architectural Description Guide (1978)
- The Oxford History of the Classical World (1986)
- 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)
- Marble Institute (2011)
- Identification and Glossary of Terms (2018)
- A Guide to Architect Terms and Phrases (2018)
- Design Training (2018)
- Historic Environment Scotland (2018)
- Preservation Science (2019)
- Glossary of Bridge Terminology (2019)
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- KGA Studio Architects (2023)
- Study of the Orders (1906)
- Architecture Sources Cited (Chronological)
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- Surviving the Retail Apocalypse
- Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart (2020)
- A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (1995)
- The Library of Congress: An Architectural Alphabet (2000)
- Rediscovering Art Deco U.S.A. (2002)
- Architecture / Origin / Africa / Egyptian
- Glossary of Savannah Architecture
- Downtown - Suffern, New York
- Downtown - Montclair, New Jersey
- Downtown - Greensboro, North Carolina
- four elements of real estate value
- Field Notes: Street Banners
- twins
- Sesquicentennial Tour - Wyandotte, Michigan
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Chelsea Men’s Wear
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Five Adjacent Viaducts
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Ford-Bacon House and Bacon Memorial Library
- Wyandotte Interactive Tour / Owl's Korner
- Early Classical Revival
- Renaissance Classicism
- water table and belt course
- French Baroque
- Storefront - Mundos Roasting & Co., Traverse City, Michigan
- Glass Arts Collective - Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Re-Imagining Downtown DeRidder - DeRidder, Louisiana
- Downtown - Providence, Rhode Island
- Architecture / Style / High Victorian
- Downtown - Millburn, New Jersey
- Downtown - South Orange, New Jersey
- Downtown - Lambertville, New Jersey
- Downtown - Berkley, Michigan
- George W. Bush Presidential Center - Dallas, Texas
- Mashantucket Pequot Museum - Mashantucket, Connecticut
- Downtown - Havre de Grace, Maryland
- Bridgewater Commons - Bridgewater, New Jersey
- Downtown - North Adams, Massachusetts
- The Grammar of Ornament (1856)
- Visit to Manhattan - New York City, New York
- Mount Lebanon Shaker Society - New Lebanon, New York
- Museum - Peacock Room, Free Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia
- Bell Labs - Holmdel, New Jersey
- Architecture / Style / Art Deco
- Rustic Modern
- Funeral of Doug McIntosh - Detroit, Michigan
- Historic Fort Wayne - Detroit, Michigan
- Downtown - Morristown, Tennessee
- Visit to South Street Seaport - New York City, New York
- Downtown - Keyport, New Jersey
- Wyandotte Memorial Recreation Center - Wyandotte, Michigan
- Farmers Market - East End Market, Orlando, Florida
- City Market - Roanoke, Virginia
- Knox Street - Dallas, Texas
- Pop-up Parklet - Trenton, New Jersey (2016)
- Downtown - Danville, Kentucky
- Visit to Ithaca, New York
- Downtown - Rochester, New York
- Grand Concourse - New York City, New York
- quintuplet
- Northern Manhattan - New York, New York
- Downtown - Detroit, Michigan
- Galleried House
- Downtown - Ferndale, Michigan
- Architecture / Style - old
- Tactical Urbanism: 10 Ways to Restore Your Downtown for $500 or Less
- Architecture / Building / Uris Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities
- Lean Livability: Making Lovable Places for $500 or Less
- Placemaking for the Win
- Very Early English
- Main Street Now - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- St. Francis Cathedral - Metuchen, New Jersey
- Downtown - East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
- Santa Maria del Fiore - Florence, Italy
- Neoclassical style
- Visit to Baltimore, Maryland
- Downtown - Highland Park, New Jersey
- Architecture / Style / Beaux Arts
- shanshui
- Architecture / Building / Hyphen
- Wayfinding in Mill Hill Park - Trenton, New Jersey
- Glossary of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
- Visit to Woodward Avenue - Detroit, Michigan
- Disney World - Orlando, Florida
- Yard 56 - 5601 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, Maryland
- Downtown - Maysville, Kentucky
- Downtown - Marshall, Michigan
- Abingdon Historic District - Abingdon, Virginia
- Visit to Brooklyn Museum of Art - Brooklyn, New York
- The Hermitage - Hermitage, Tennessee
- Field Notes: Two Sided Signs
- Flight 93 National Memorial - Stoystown, Pennsylvania
- Colonial Williamsburg: The Guide (2019)
- Downtown - Hanover, Pennsylvania
- Leaning Tower - Pisa, Italy
- Glossary of Colonial Williamsburg
- Gothic Drawing and Drawings in the Gothic Tradition in the Iberian Peninsula (2023)
- Architecture in Archaeology (2019)
- Far Eastern University
- Our Vanishing Landscape
- West Palm Beach (2025)
- Effect of buttress form on transverse seismic resistance of high masonry walls (2021)
- Architecture: From the Pyramids to Post Modernism (2001)
- Craftsmen's Tools and Books (1960)
- Main Street Glossary (2025)
- The Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts (2019)