(1) “Arch” means the curved support over an opening.
(2) “Architrave” means the design element between the column capital and frieze in classical architecture.
(3) “Ashlar” means rectangular units of dressed stone.
(4) “Baluster” means a small railing support; may also be called a spindle; the railing and its balusters are a balustrade.
(5) “Bay” means a structural division of a building; also refers to type of window or projection from a building.
(6) “Beam” means a horizontal structural element.
(7) “Belt course” means a horizontal band around a building, often of a contrasting material.
(8) “Board and Batten” means vertical siding of flat members with narrow projecting strips to cover the joints.
(9) “Bracket” means a member which supports a cantilevered section.
(10) “Buttress” means an engaged or attached pier designed to strengthen a wall; typically found in church construction.
(11) “Bulkhead” means the storefront part below the display window.
(12) “Cantilever” means a projecting section, beam, or upper floor.
(13) “Capital” means the uppermost part of a column or other support.
(14) “Clerestory” means an upper windowed section of a building designed to provide natural light to a high-ceiling room.
(15) “Colonnade” means a row of columns carrying an entablature.
(16) “Coping” means a cap to a wall, parapet, or roof.
(17) “Cornice” means the top section of a classical entablature; also the projecting trim found at the top of a wall.
(18) “Dentil” means a row of small rectangular blocks forming a molding; a cornice having this molding is denticulated or denticular.
(19) “Dormer” means a structure, usually gabled, which projects from a roof.
(20) “Engaged” means a column or pier attached to, and appearing to be partially embedded in, a wall.
(21) “Entablature” means the horizontal band above a column capital, or below the eaves, consisting of architrave, frieze, and cornice.
(22) “Facade” means the front or exterior "face" of a building.
(23) “Fascia” means the horizontal band, usually on the upper wall under the eaves, which is part of an entablature.
(24) “Fenestration” means the pattern of window openings on a building.
(25) “Finial” means a decorative, pointed terminus of a roof.
(26) “Flashing” means a metal sheet used to make an intersection of materials watertight.
(27) “Foundation” means the substructure upon which a building rests.
(28) “Frieze” means the middle member of an entablature, often decorated.
(29) “Gable” means the part of an end wall under a pitched roof.
(30) “Hoodmold” means a projecting molding or decorative trim over a window or door.
(31) “Jamb” means the side of a doorway or window opening.
(32) “Keystone” means the top member of an arch.
(33) “Lintel” means a beam supported on vertical posts at its ends; the most common method of spanning an opening.
(34) “Mullion” means a vertical member dividing a window into individual window panes.
(35) “Muntin” means a horizontal member dividing a window into individual window panes.
(36) “Order” means the type of the column and its entablature in classical architecture; doric, ionic, and Corinthian are the three most common orders.
(37) “Parapet” means a low protective wall at the edge of a roof; the portion of the upper wall that rises above the roof.
(38) “Pediment” means a triangular or segmental-curved gable.
(39) “Pilaster” means a column or pier partially embedded into a wall surface (see "engaged").
(40) “Portico” means a pedimented porch supported by columns.
(41) “Post” means a vertical structural element.
(42) “Quoin” means a decorative block sometimes given to the corners of a masonry building.
(43) “Rosette” means a circular floral ornament.
(44) “Rustication” means stone with emphasized joints and textured surfaces for a decorative treatment.
(45) “Sash” means a frame designed to hold window glass.
(46) “Siding” means an exterior wall covering.
(47) “Sill” means the horizontal structural element located below the opening of a window.
(48) “Soffit” means the underside of an architectural element, usually under the eave.
(49) “Spandrel” means the blank space between windows in successive stories of a multi-story building.
(50) “Storefront” means the street-level facade of a commercial building, usually having display windows.
(51) “Terra-cotta” means decorative ceramic units which are used as a facing material on building facades.
(52) “Transom” means a small operable or fixed window located above a door or other window.
(53) “Veneer” means a non-structural exterior facing on the facade of a building.
(54) “Water Table” means a course of masonry projecting above a foundation to direct water away from it.
(Ord. 96-115. Passed 8-26-96.)