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In architecture, a transom is a transverse horizontal structural beam or bar, or a crosspiece separating a door from a window above it. This contrasts with a mullion, a vertical structural member. [1] Transom or transom window is also the customary U.S. word used for a transom light, the window over this crosspiece.
Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings.
A-frame: so-called because the steep roofline, reaching to or near the ground, makes the gable ends resemble a capital letter A. Chalet: a gablefront house built into a mountainside with a wide sloping roof; Charleston single house: originating in Charleston, South Carolina, a narrow house with its shoulder to the street and front door on the side.
An entrance door for excluding drafts from an interior of a building. A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a center shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a round enclosure. Rib vault The intersection of two or three barrel vaults. Ridge board
Overhangs on two sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns protect doors, windows, and other lower-level structures. Overhangs on all four sides of barns and larger, older farmhouses are common in Swiss architecture. An overhanging eave is the edge of a roof, protruding outwards from the side of the building, generally to provide weather protection.
Stoop, "a small porch", comes from Dutch stoep [1] (meaning: step/sidewalk, pronounced the same as English "stoop"); the word is now in general use in the Northeastern United States and is probably [original research?] spreading.
Cape Cod–style house c. 1920. The Cape Cod house is defined as the classic North American house. In the original design, Cape Cod houses had the following features: symmetry, steep roofs, central chimneys, windows at the door, flat design, one to one-and-a-half stories, narrow stairways, and simple exteriors.
A marquee outside The Anthem advertises a sold-out Bon Iver concert. The current usage of the modern English word marquee, that in US English refers specifically to a canopy projecting over the main entrance of a theater, which displays details of the entertainment or performers, was documented in the academic journal American Speech in 1926: "Marquee, the front door or main entrance of the ...