Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Drop
Also called a Gutta (pron. GUT a; plural: guttae)

Small drop-like projections (cones) carved under the triglyphs or mutules of a Doric entablature

Latin: "gutta" = drop. Plural: guttae (pron. GUT ee)

Found in classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above: Forest Lawn Cemetery Administration Building
  
  
• Harlow Curtiss House
  
  
• Ethel Mann Curtiss House
  
  
• Schoellkopf-Vom Berge Manor
  
  
• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum
  
  
• Birge Memorial
  
  
• 177 Bidwell Pkwy. - with triglyphs
  
  
• 177 Bidwell Pkwy. - without triglyphs
  
  
• Statler Hotel
  
  
• John W. Bush House - Beaux Art stylized
  
  
• Statler House - Arts & Crafts stylized

Examples from Europe:

• Temple of Athena Aphaia on the Island of Aegina, Greece

• Parthenon, Athens, Greece
  
  
• Propylaia, Athens, Greece
  
  
• Tholos, Greece

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