Windows

Windows

Arcade: central column and round arches.

Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, Italy
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Architrave: with consoles or cornice

Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (with consoles)
Palazzo Fenzi, Florence, Italy

Band/ribbon: One of a horizontal series of three windows or more, separated only by mullions, that form a horizontal band across the facade of a building Most commonly found in buildings erected after 1900.

Martin House
Minot Tanner House

Casing: The exposed trim molding, framing, or lining around a door or window; may be either flat or molded.

Chicago: A wide fixed pane with narrow movable sash windows flanking it. Example from Marshall Field and Company Store, Chicago, IL

Double-hung: A window having two vertically sliding sashes, each designed to close a different half of the window.

Double window: two windows, side by side, which a single architectural unit

Elliptical: See Fanlight

Frame: An open structure or rim for encasing, holding or bordering

French: A casement window extending down to the floor; also called a French door

Wallace House

Grille: An ornamental arrangement of bars to form a screen or partition, usually of metal, wood, stone, or concrete, to cover, conceal, decorate, or protect an opening

Lunette: A crescent or semicircular window or wall panel framed by an arch or vault

MacKay Homestead at the Genesee Country Village, & Museum

Order: with columns and entablature

Palazzo Fenzi, Florence, Italy

Pane: One of the divisions of a window or door, consisting of a single unit of glass set in a frame

Rail: A bar extending horizontally between supports

Ribbon - See "Band" above

Sash: Any framework of a window; may be movable or fixed; may slide in a vertical plane (as in a double-hung window) or may be pivoted (as in a casement window). The development of counterweighted vertically sliding sashes in the 1670s eliminated the need for for mullions and transoms while allowing much larger areas of glass to be moved. By 1700 sashes were common.

Sill: The horizontal bottom member of a window frame

Skylight

Ellicott Square Building - Courtyard

Splayed: A window whose frame is set at an angle with respect to the face of the wall

Stained-glass window: A window whose glass is colored. Example from Karpeles Manuscript Museum

Stile: One of the upright structural members of a window frame, at the outer edge

Surround: An encircling border or decorative frame

Charles W. Goodyear House

Treble sash: A window having three vertically sliding sashes, one above the other; each of which closes a different part of the window; occasionally found in America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in large houses having very high ceilings. Compare with three-part window

Triangular: Window shaped like a triangle

Tripart / triple / three-part window: A window having a wide rectangular sash at its center and a narrower sash on each side; all three sashes are of the same height and are in the same plane; essentially a Palladian window with the rounded head of the center sash lopped off at the top Found in many Greek Revival style homes, this type of window was introduced in America in about 1785. Compare with treble sash and Chicago window

Lansing House

Twin lancet window under pointed arch, crowned by a quatrefoil: lancet window ... quatrefoil

Old Post Office / Erie Community College