Interior Design Ch. 6 Vocab

Has symmetry like a Georgian style home, includes swags, garlands, and a central fanlight over the entrance.

Adam Style

The Pueblo (Native Americans) in New Mexico lived in, includes boxlike construction, flat roofs, and projecting beams _______?

Adobe

Craftmasn style (1905-1930s) natural materials

Arts and Crafts

One and half stories, low pitched roofs, covered porches

Bungalow

small, symmetrical, one or one and a half story; steep gable roof and side gable, roof style is called a High pitched gable roof, Central entrance and a central chimney with several fireplaces

Cape Cod

Refers to the use of formal architectural elements that have been recognized

Classic Style

Controversal, 21st century furniture

Contemporary Style

structured windows that project through a sloping roof in the second story

Dormer

The ____ ____ style with a gambrel roof was first built in New York and Delaware.

Dutch Colonial

Monticello is an example of a style, feautres large portico, Greek and Italian, a traingular pediment gable.

Early Classical Revival

overhang off of the roof, traditionally goes over the first floor windows. Replaces the use of shutters, keeps out the sunlight

Eave

Symmetrical, boxshape home, flat roof, pediments and porticos, usually 2 stories high, English

Federal

A _____ is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs.

Flat roof

originates from the common experiences of a group of people

Folk Style

A symmetrical style homes with a Mansard roof. It may contain dormers.

French Manor

The symmetrical ______ ______ house may be two and one half stories high created in New Orleans/France.

French Provincial

High point in the center and slope of both sides

Gable roof

a roof with two sides, each of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one.

Gambrel

The ____ style of house has an overhanging second story like the old forts.

Garrison

The _____ style, adapted from English architecture, has simple, exterior lines, a dignified apperance, and symmetry.

Georgian

Germans settled in Southeastern PA Built large durable homes of wood and firestone for warmth Entry led to kitchen/first floor Gamble roof/ Pent roofs

German Style

The main feature of the _____ _____ are the two-story porch supported by Greek colums with larger triangular gable pediment

Greek Revival

houses the wood frme of the house actually forms part of the outside wall

Half-timbered

a roof with the ends inclined, as well as the sides.

Hip roof

Eight-sided structure usually made of mud and logs by the Najavo Indians

Hogan

The Scandinavian immigrants brought the ____ ____ to North America, one room house, rectangular house, 10 feet wide by 12 feet to 20 feet long.

Log Cabin

a roof that has four sloping sides, each of which becomes steeper halfway down.

Mansard

The housing styes developed in the United States from the early 1900s to the 1980s are classified as _____.

Modern

Federal style houses - Architectural roof like decorations that are usually for over portico, windows or door.

Pediment

a roof consisting of a single sloping surface.

Pent roof

The Federal style sometimes has a(n).

Portico

is an open style covered with a roof that is supported by columns

Portico

Have strong horizontal lines, low pitched roofs and overhangs

Prairie Style

One story structure, lower roof, may have a basement

Ranch

Built by English settlers in New England area, Variation of a Cape Cod house, Takes it name from the shape of the wooden box in which salt would be kept in Long, steep pitched gable roof that sloped down from the front of the back, Large windows with small panes large central chimney

Saltbox

Immigrants from Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark

Scandinavian

An offshoot of the Greek Revival stlye, this two-story house has colums that extend across the front covered by an extension of the roof. The house is large and symmetrical with a hip or gable roof

Southern Colonial

First European establishment The Interior was very earthy, dirt floors and white walls Was an adobe of brick or stone covered in stucco Primarily in Florida and the South in 1500's In closed garden areas, and arched doorways

Spanish Colonial

near coast line, usually no basement, simple design, one room with a chimney at the end; would build on around central part of house as the family grew

Tidewater South

______ style house reflect the experiences and traditions of past eras

Traditional

Small Towers

Turrets

English home, lots of decoration and trim with high porches, steep gable roofs, tall windows, and a turret or small tower

Victorian