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Consists of flowing, flame-like lines – characterized by waving curves that also suggest flames.

Sheet metal fitted around chimneys, valleys, drip caps, etc. to seal out moisture.

A very small wooden spire.

Fleur-de-LisFrench lily flower; heraldic flower with three petals forming a stylized lily.

EmptyThe hollow fire-resistant passage that carries smoke and heat to the outside from the fireplace or furnace.

This early form of column resembled and represented bundled reeds or plant stems, but during later periods, sometimes took the form of a polygonal column shaft. The fluted column is a decorative motif consisting of a series of uniform, usually vertical, flutes or grooves. What is probably most interesting about fluted columns is that they represent the first columns made from stone. While the fluted columns may have lost their popularity as an independent style many of the future columns incorporated design elements from them, in effect, simply incorporating a more complex capital.

Notre Dame main hallway looking toward the altar and up to the rose windows and vaulted ceilingMasonry support consisting usually of a pier or buttress standing apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch that carries the thrust of a vault or roof from the upper part of the wall to an outer buttress and from there down into the ground.

An area just inside the main exterior door for the removal of wraps, overshoes, etc.

garden--to be continued..A basement floor drain designed to allow water to seep into the ground rather than be carried away through pipes.

The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water.