Slide Lecture Notes

Tray One

Framing

1. post-and-beam; mortise-and-tenon; joinry
2. framing (Kelly)
3. gound sill, plate, end tie beam, summer beam (binding, bridging), overhanging girt, front girt
4. corner post, story post, chimney post; brace, knee brace, single-story stud, two-story stud, end bearer
5. collar beam, principal rafter, common rafter, principal purlin, common purlin; ridge pole
6. king post, queen post, collar tie

Plans

1. ell, side
2. ell, rear
3. wing; "Winged Greek Revival"
4. continuous architecture
5. form — roof direction; bays, position of entrance; blind window

Roof System

1. valley: open, closed
2. gutter: built-in; hung; leader; downspout
3. gable; pitch; orientation
4. clipped; Sussex
5. minor, major gable, roof
6. cornice, cornice return, pier, engaged pier
7. cove cornice
8. bBrackets; paired brackets
9. parapet, crow-stepped parapet;
10. crow-stepped gable terminated by a bartizan?
11. Dutch gable?
12. false front

Roof Types

1. gambrel; curb
2. stone-ender
3. gambrel: steep, lowed slope: kick
4. added lean-tos; integral lean-tos
5. barns, English, Dutch, banked, mow.
6. hip roof: hip
7. pitch: balustrade, open,pierced, balusters; Chippendale
8. intergral porch (in antis?)
9. porch: shed, hip, added
10. plan: Georgian, central, center-hall
11. pavillion, projecting pavillion
12. mansard, slope, bellcast, concave, covex, kick, cresting, finial
13. flat, parapet, cap, built-up roof, drain
14. dome, conical, complex
15. dormer: gable, shed, ridge, eyelid, major domer, conical, candlesnuffer, internal
16. oriel, bay, projecting dormer,complex, inscised
17. engaged tower, conical tower

Tray Two

Roof Details

• steeples" tower + spire (pyramidal, polygonal, needle, conical, broached spire: octagonal on square tower without intermiediate parapet (broach: inclined angle of masonry); stages
• balustrades, baluster (post or pillar), rail (coping); blind baluster, paneled baluster
• finial: wrought-iron, cast-iron
• crest, cresting, decorated, perforated (when in stone)
• "gingerbread" vergeboard, bargeboard: decorated, scroll-sawn, lathe-turned, truss (types)
• half timbered, cross-bracking, chamfered (bevel corners)
• crenellation (battlement): parapet with alternating indentations (embrasures) and raised portins (merlons)
• machicolation: projecting parapet on brackets on the outside of a castle tower with openign in the floor through which to drop molten lead, boiling oil, and missiles.
• pendant (pendant-drop) at overhang

Porches

1. [details]... length, roof, supports, deck (tongue-and-groove flooring), balustrade, steps, lattice
2. cast-iron porch, balcony

Drainage (more)

1. downspout; splash block

Windows

1. casement, leaded cames, quarrels, saddle bars
2. double-hung sash (England c. 1685), fixed sash, moveable sash, sills, jambs (reveal may be splayed) sash (upper, lower), rail, meeting rail, stile, light, mullion, glazing (double glazing), glazing putty, glazing points, transom
3. paired, pointed
4. 12/12, 6/6, 2/2. 1/1
5. hood, cast-iron hood, hood-mould (dripstone, when masonry); if rectangular, a label; hood-stop (ornamental carving at beginning or end)
6. mulitple-paines, Queen Ann, stained glass, pressed glass
7. entablature or pediment...modillion (small bracket or console on the fascia, usually on the Corinthian or Composite order
8. aedicule: framing of a door or window or other opening with two columns, piers, pilasters supported by a gable,lintel, plaque, or an entablature or pediment.
9. arch: segmental, semi-circular, pointed (Gothic), tracery
10. collonettes, keystone, spandrel
11. Palladian, Venetian (Serliana, Serlian motif, Serlio's Archiettura, 1537) window; tripartite
12. French windows....coursed-ashlar, quoins
13. tripartite...flush board
14. lintels, splayed lintels, keystone, niche
15. recessed arches, piers, springstone, seystone, occulus window
16. thermal window (Diocletian window): semicircular window divided into three by two vertical mullions)
17. gable-end...Lunette, quarter lunette, semicircular lunette, semi-elliptical lunette
18. trabeated (trabs = beam in Greek)
19. entablature, architrave (moulded surroundof an opening)

Shutters, Blinds...

1. blinds, slatted blinds, louvered blinds,shutters, jalousie, , shutter dogs,
2. window sash locks,
3. interior shutters, pocket shutters, splayed reveal

Tray Three

Doors

1. mortised, panels, lights (glazed panels)
2. new: solid-core, hollow-core
3. architrave, top rail, freize rail (below top), lock rail, bottom rail, shutting stile, hanging stile, muntin (middle stile), panels (top, middle, bottom)
4. framing, header, door frame, casing, jamb (vertical side), sill, stop
5. feathered molding, applied molding
6. architrave, pediment )low-pitched gable), pedimented architrave, broken...open-topped (or broken-apse) pediment, open-bed (broken-bed) pediment
7. transom light (semi-circular, round-arched, elliptical, rectangular), blind, glazed... muntins, swags, leaded cames, rosettes
8. brackets, modillions
9. Sidelights: half-length, 3/4-length, full-length, molded panels, bevel glass, etched glass, stained glass, recessed
10. batten (board and batten), vertical board, wrought-iron nails, clinched
11. hinges: strap, H-shaped, L-shaped, butt, pins,
12. latches, spade, Norfolk, Suffolk, thumb lift, thumb piece, finger-lift; Blake's-patent
13. knobs: earthen, ceramic, "Bennington" (red and brown clay, glazed), cut glass

Treatments, exterior

1. Diaper work (masonry), polychrome
2. Vertical plank, clapboards, exposure to weather, shakes, shingles, tiles, shapes
3. half-timbering
4. brick coursing
5. composition siding, asphalt siding
6. timber frame: plastered, wattle-and-daub
7. tiles, shapes, ceramic, asbestos-cement
8. sheet metal: soldered-seam (flat), standing seam, batten, pressed metal. Materials: iron, galvanized, copper, lead-coated copper
9. slate: black (PA, VA, ME, VT), red "unfading" (NY), purple and green "unfading" (VT, NY), varying brown-gray-green, "weathering" (VT, NY)