Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ...................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Illustrated Architecture
Dictionary ...................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Column
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Architecture
A supporting pillar consisting of a base, a cylindrical shaft, and a capitalLatin: "columna" - a post
Column vs. post: post lacks the essential qualities of a column: base, shaft and capital
Materials:
- wood
- granite
- limestone
- marble
- brick covered with stucco or or plaster
- cast iron
- sheet metal
- pressed tin capitals
- fiberglass
- cast aluminum
Shafts:
Styles of Classical columns:
- Doric (although Doric columns have no base)
- Ionic
- Corinthian
- Composite
- Tuscan
Classical two-story columns are found in Beaux Arts Classical, Classical Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassical styles
Classical one-story columns are found in Italianate, Beaux Arts Classical, Classical Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassical Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Italian Renaissance Revival styles
Non-Classical styles: Romanesque ..... Gothic ..... Queen Anne ..... Eastlake
See also: Banded column ....... Clustered column ....... Engaged column ... Caryatid ....... Pilaster ....... Peristyle........ Colonade
FurnitureAn upright member which is taller than it is thick, and serves as a support for something resting on its top.
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above - Doric column: Birge Memorial
- Illustration above - Furniture: Empire Pier table (Console table) - Athenaeum, Philadelphia
- Banded column: Ellicott Square Building
- Ionic column: Albert F. Laub Mausoleum
- Corinthian column: Edward H. Butler Mausoleum
- Tuscan column: Knox House
- Eastlake cast iron: The Granite Works, 844 Main Street
- Romanesque column: St. Francis Xavier RC Church
- Gothic column: St. Ann's RC Church
- Queen Anne column: Little House
- Cast iron Corinthian columns: Glenny/Dennis/Stanton Building
- Furniture: Empire mantel clock - Amherst Museum
Other examples:
- Greek Doric column sections - Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily
