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  • Facade
  • Fascia
  • Fenestration
  • Filigree
  • Finial
  • Fire Brick
  • Fire Pit
  • Firedog
  • Flambeau
  • Flamboyant Tracery
  • Flashing
  • Fleche
  • Fleur-de-lis
  • Flue
  • Fluted Column
  • Flying Buttress
  • Foyer
  • French Drains
  • Fresco
  • Fret
  • Frieze

Medieval Memories (La Pia Almoina - Girona, XIVth century)One of the exterior faces of a building.  Any important face of a building, usually the principal front with the main entrance.

A horizontal band or board, often used to conceal the ends of rafters; the front of an object.

Barcelona - Junction - Shoes on WiresThe arrangement of windows in a building to provide interior light also used as decorative elements in a facade.

Delicate, lace-like, metal work .

simpsons.shadowA sculptured ornament fixed to the top of a peak, arch, gable or similar structure.  It terminates a post or a pediment – can be on furniture or buildings.

Red Lion Hotel (1885) - brick roofline detailA fire resistant brick used to line a fireplace

Fire pitThey can physically vary from a pit dug into the ground to an elaborate gas burning compilation of stone, brick, and metal.  The common feature of fire pits is that they are designed to contain a fire and prevent it from spreading.

Continental AndironsUsually comes in pairs and was created to support burning logs in a fireplace. They can come in all forms of decoration.  Same as an andiron.

A flaming torch that was used in decoration.