There are generally eight basic arch designs, and all eight can be found in Lancaster County architecture: semicircular, segmental, lancet, jack, trefoil, elliptical, horseshoe and Tudor. The ...

The styles of Beaux Arts and Italian Renaissance Revival ran on parallel timelines and had similarities. Both were inspired by the classical design elements of ancient Europe — France and Italy, ...

The home featured a four-story central entrance tower with a steeply pitched, iron-crested mansard roof, round-arched windows, and scallop surrounds. It also had a wooden front porch with paired ...

THE first chapter of this book deals with continuous structures, and the last is devoted to rigid frames. Apart from these, the text is mainly concerned with arch types, and the applications of the ...

The fun of looking at Helena's old buildings is in seeing how they're put together — how all the pieces stack up and fit, how the logic of the structure is made plain, and how the distinct character ...