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  2. Gingerbread (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    These buildings are terraced houses with folding front doors on the first floor that can be fully opened to use as a storefront. The eaves, air passages above the doors, and ornate balustrades are decorated with intricately carved wood panels in different styles including Burmese style. These commercial buildings can be seen in Chiang Mai and ...

  3. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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    These buildings used single-story floor plans and native materials in a simple style to meet the needs of their inhabitants. Walls were often built of adobe brick and covered with plaster, or more simply used board and batten wood siding. Roofs were low and simple, and usually had wide eaves to help shade the windows from the Southwestern heat ...

  4. Cornice - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. New England barn - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Soffit - Wikipedia

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    A soffit is an exterior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of the roof edge. Its archetypal form, sometimes incorporating or implying the projection of rafters or trusses over the exterior of supporting walls, is the underside of eaves (to connect a supporting wall to projecting edge(s) of the roof).

  7. Eastlake movement - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    A garden design made from patterns of mostly low elements such as plant beds and small hedges interwoven with gravel or grass paths, historically meant to be open spaces. Modern parterres are often denser and taller. Pavilion A freestanding structure near the main building or an ending structure on building wings. Pedestal (also Plinth)

  9. Eaves - Wikipedia

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    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 ...