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The Burckhardt House is unique in Lincoln architecture because of its Prairie Box/American Foursquare style. [1] The house follows a simple, rectangular plan, and features a cross gabled roof with return box eaves on the south facing front gable, a shed roofed dormer on the west side, and a hip roof porch on the front facade. [1]
Cornice of Maison Carrée (Nîmes, France), a Roman temple in the Corinthian order, with dentils nearest the wall.. In Ancient Greek architecture and its successors using the classical orders in the tradition of classical architecture, the cornice is the topmost element of the entablature, which consists (from top to bottom) of the cornice, the frieze, and the architrave.
Eaves of a house in Northern Australia. The white underside would be referred to as a soffit. In this example the soffit is fixed to the slope of the rafters. The dark grey fascia boards form the outer edge and have a groove to receive the soffit lining sheets which cover the rafter tails. Boxed in soffit on a house in Northern Florida, United ...
Additions were constructed in the 1930s. It has a low hipped roof with widely overhanging boxed eaves and a dormer, stuccoed chimneys, and front porch and porte-cochère. Also on the property is a contributing garage. The building has been converted to office use. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]
A cruck or crook frame is a curved timber, one of a pair, which support the roof of a building, historically used in England and Wales. This type of timber framing consists of long, generally naturally curved, timber members that lean inwards and form the ridge of the roof. These posts are then generally secured by a horizontal beam which then ...
The building is unique in that in Eureka, it is the only two-story building that is symmetrical with squared bay windows. Other Eastlake features of the house include: "the vertical stripes in the frieze, the brackets extending from the vertical strips, the narrow belt course, the cornice and brackets over the windows, and the wide band of trim ...
Eaves overhang, shown here with a bracket system of modillions. The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural style, such as the Chinese dougong ...
A simple example of sliding door roller and track similar to what was commonly used in New England barns. The English barn (also known as a three-bay barn, Connecticut barn, Yankee barn, thirty-by-forty [13] and sometimes confusingly called a New England barn) [14] was built from a very early date in the northeast United States.