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1. Also known as weatherboard or siding. Long, narrow boards overlapped to cover outer walls. Used in colonial style frame houses.

2. A window that opens by swinging inward or outward much like a door. Casement windows are usually vertical in shape but often grouped in bands.

3. Refers to the architecture and design ideas of ancient Rome and Greece.

4. That portion of the roof that projects beyond the wall.

5. The triangular section of a wall formed by the end of a pointed (gabled) roof.

6. A small tower, often at the corner of a building. Common in Queen Anne styles among others. A turret is a smaller structure while a tower begins at ground level.

7. The front or 'face' of a building.

8. A three part window featuring a large arched center and flaking rectangular sidelights.

9. A triangular crown used over door, windows, or porches. A classical style.

10. The setting for a vertical window in the roof. Called a gable former if it has its own gable or a shed dormer its a flat roof. Most often found in upstairs bedrooms.

11. Windows on either side of a door.

12. A roof with slopes on all four sides. The 'hips' are lines formed when the slopes meet at the corners.

13. A semicircular or arched window about a door.

14. A set of two or more windows that protrude out from the wall. The window is moved away from the wall to provide more light and wider views.

15. A large porch usually with a pediment roof supported by classical columns or pillars.

16. A mixture of cement, sand, and lime applied to exterior walls as a covering.

17. A roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope having the steeper pitch. Often found in Colonial revival houses in the 'Dutch' style.

18. A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall. In most houses, rafters are visible only from the attic. In styles such as the craftsman bungalows and some 'rustic' contemporaries, they are exposed.

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