Architectural Features

ROOF STYLES Flat Roof Gable Roof Gambrel Roof Hip Roof Mansard Roof

FLAT ROOF A flat roof is a type of covering for a building. In contrast to the more sloped form of roof, a flat roof is horizontal or nearly horizontal.

GABLE ROOF Gabled roofs are the kind young children typically draw. They have two sloping sides that come together at a ridge, creating end walls with a triangular extension, called a gable, at the top.

GAMBREL ROOF Dutch Colonial Often called a barn roof

HIP ROOF A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof.

MANSARD ROOF Variation of the Gambrel Roof and often has dormers This type of roof has two slopes on all sides, with a steep lower slope and a flat upper slope A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper

Architectural Elements Clapboard, also known as bevel siding or lap siding or weatherboard  (with regional variants as to the exact definitions of these terms), is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house by installing long thin wooden boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall.

Victorian Architectural Elements Gingerbread Turret

Architectural Elements Ell / Lean To - a small and usually roughly made building that is built on the side of a larger building

Architectural Elements A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows. Dormers

Greek Revival Architectural Elements Pediment & Portico in architecture, triangular gable forming the end of the roof slope over a portico (the area, with a roof supported by columns, leading to the entrance of a building); or a similar form used decoratively over a doorway or window. The pediment was the crowning feature of the Greek temple front.

Greek Revival Architectural Elements pilaster Used to give the look of a support column

Architectural Elements Fanlight A fanlight is a window, semicircular or semi-elliptical in shape, with glazing bars radiating out like an open fan. It is placed over another window or a doorway, and is sometimes hinged to a transom. The bars in the fixed glazed window spread out in the manner a sunburst. It is also called a "sunburst light".