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2. Anchor plate - Wikipedia

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   Although there are many types of anchors or anchorages, according to the Dictionary of Architecture and Construction, an anchor plate specifically is a "wrought-iron clamp, of Flemish origin, on the exterior side of a brick building wall that is connected to the opposite wall by a steel tie-rod to prevent the two walls from spreading apart ...

3. Pylon (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   In addition to standard vertical grooves on the exterior face of a pylon wall which were designed to hold flag poles, some pylons also contained internal stairways and rooms. [2] The oldest intact pylons belong to mortuary temples from the Ramesside period in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.

4. Flagpole - Wikipedia

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   A flagpole, flagmast, flagstaff, or staff is a pole designed to support a flag. If it is taller than can be easily reached to raise the flag, a cord is used, looping around a pulley at the top of the pole with the ends tied at the bottom. The flag is fixed to one lower end of the cord, and is then raised by pulling on the other end.

5. Bracket (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   A classically detailed bracket at the chapel of Greenwich Hospital, London Bracket for a shelf or hanging items. A bracket is a structural or decorative architectural element that projects from a wall, usually to carry weight and sometimes to "strengthen an angle". [1] [2] It can be made of wood, stone, plaster, metal, or other media.

6. Puck Building - Wikipedia

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   At the sixth story of the building's northeast corner, the chamfer has a massive console bracket, which originally served as the base of a flagpole. [ 32 ] [ 39 ] A patterned brick course, corbels, a brownstone sill, and a cornice run horizontally above the seventh story of the original building.

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