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  2. Rafter - Wikipedia

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    Compass rafter: A rafter curved or bowed on the top (the top surface of a rafter is called its "back") or both the top and bottom surfaces. Curb rafter: The upper rafters in a curb (kerb, gambrel, Mansard roof) roof. Hip rafter (angle rafter): The rafter in the corners of a hip roof. The foot of a hip rafter lands on a dragon beam.

  3. Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District - Wikipedia

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    A modest Craftsman, unnamed but located at 637 NW St. Helens, is an overall example of the style, encompassing the uses of a broad porch, roof braces and rafters, and multiple-light banded windows. [2] Bungalows are pervasive in the district with examples including the John Miles-Alanson A. Hull House at 666 NW St. Helens.

  4. List of Brutalist architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    College Life Insurance Company of America Headquarters, Indianapolis [2]: 56 Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington (I. M. Pei, 1982) Herman B. Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington (Eggers & Higgins, 1966–69) Indiana University Musical Arts Center, Indiana University, Bloomington (Woollen, Molzan and Partners, 1972)

  5. Lookout (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    In this example the lookouts are covered when the soffit is finished, as can be seen on the right hand side of the image. A lookout , [ 1 ] lookout rafter or roof outlooker [ 2 ] is a wooden joist that extends in cantilever out from the exterior wall (or wall plate) of a building, supporting the roof sheathing and providing a nailing surface ...

  6. A-frame building - Wikipedia

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    An example of an A-frame house in Gillette, Wyoming Traditional A-frame thatched house (palheiro), Santana, Madeira, Portugal An A-frame house owned and restored by Nicky Panicci in the Hollywood Hills, an example of an architectural A-frame. A historic photograph of an A-frame sod roof house in the Netherlands. Image: Cultural Heritage Agency ...

  7. Timber roof truss - Wikipedia

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    Two king post trusses linked to support a roof. Key:1: ridge beam, 2: purlins, 3: common rafters. This is an example of a "double roof" with principal rafters and common rafters. A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof.

  8. Hammerbeam roof - Wikipedia

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    A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.

  9. Gothic-arch barn - Wikipedia

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    The Tomlinson Lumber Co sold pre-cut materials for a 34 by 50 feet (10 m × 15 m) dairy barn with a Gothic-arched roof supported by three-ply rafters in 1958 throughout Minnesota. [ 10 ] The first published plans by an architect for a Gothic-arch barn appeared in 1916.