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| Cape Cod | rectangular house with a central chimney and pitched roof |
| Garrison | a house with a second story that overhangs or projects from the first story |
| Portico | A tall, open porch, supported by columns, over the front entrance |
| Split level | house the is on two alternating levels. one level half-way in between each other |
| queen anne | most fancy victorian house |
| saltbox | two story, pitched roof house in which rear portion of the roof is extended down to cover a first floor addition |
| pitched roof | two sided roof with a steep angle |
| greek revival | homes that resemble greek architecture |
| gambrel | roof that has two slopes on each side, the upper slolpe being flatter than the lower slop, allowing interior space for full sized upstairs |
| gingerbread | lacy looking cut out wood trim |
| pueblo | adobe houses built on top of each other into cliffs and caves and on the level ground |
| adobe | clay formed into sun dried bricks and used as a building material |
| gable | triangular end walls formed by gable or pitchd roof |
| teepee | native american home easily transported to another location |
| plantation | southern home built along the Mississippi by the french |
| pediment | triangular or arched decoration over a window or doorway |
| prairie | flat modern house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright |
| adam style | rectangular design with one or more stories, gable roofs, symmetrically placed windows, and decorative interiors |
| victorian | Queen Victoria, elaborate designs, designs were taken from Renaissance and medieval periods |
| pilaster | decorative flat column |
| tenements | apartment complex with minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort |
| italianate | architecture of italian villas, square, two story, llarge overhanging roof, cornices under roof, narrow windows |
| dormer | structure that projects through a steeply sloped roof usually a winow |
| ranch | long, low one story house |
| georgian | english style built in america wit ha formal balanced design, two or three stories, large windows, front door focal point, pilasters, portico |
| mansard | roof that has two slopes on all sided, with the lower slope being steep and the upper slope almost flat |
| cornice | decorative strip at area where roof and walls meet |
| stucco | plaster material made with cement, sand, and lime |
| shingle | thing ablong pieces of material usually wood that are laid in overlapping rows to cover the roof or sides of structure |
| thatch | bundles of reeds or straw used as building material |
| half timber | built by early english colonists wood frame of house formed part of the outside wall |
| log cabin | one room style to a larger version with two rooms side by side, often a breeze way in between them |
| galleries | wrap around porch |
| bungalow | small, one story house with an overhanging roof and a covered porch |
| modular | seperate box like sections that are built at a factory or assembled at a site |
| fanlight | semi circular round or oval window with fan shaped panes of glass |
| contemporary | popular during 50's and 60's, flat low pitched roof, unusual shaped windows, fits into landscape |
