Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Dormer
A roofed atic window
Origin: French: dormir: to sleep
Hipped: Hipped dormers are found, for example, in Prairie, Shingle stylesGabled: Gabled dormers are found in Arts & Crafts, Colonial Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Stick, Tudor Revival styles. Sometimes called dog-house dormer.
Clipped gable/jerkinhead dormer
Shed: Shed dormers are found, for example, in Arts & Crafts, Colonial Revival styles
Arched: Arched top dormers are found, for example, in Second Empire, Beaux Arts Classical styles
Round: Round or oval dormers are found, for example, in Beaux Arts Classical style
Oval: Round or oval dormers are found, for example, in Beaux Arts Classical style
Pedimented: Pedimented dormers are found, for example, in Colonial Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival styles
Eyebrow: Eyebrow dormers are found, for example, in Richardsonian Romanesque, Shingle styles
Through-the-cornice: Through-the-cornice dormer are found, for example, in Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, Neoclassical, Second Empire styles
Examples from Buffalo architecture:
- Illustration above: Charles W. Goodyear House - arched
- Watson House - Buffalo Club - pedimented
- Coatsworth House - pedimented
- Chillion M. Farrar House - pedimented
- 1109 Delaware Avenue - pedimented
- ScheideMantel House - shed
- Engine #15 Fire Station - pedimented
- Alexander Main Curtiss House, 780 West Ferry St. - pedimented
- E. F. Hall Office and Residence
Other examples:
- Photo: Baroque dormer - Melk Abbey, Melk, Austria
- Fontainebleau Palace, France - pedimented
- Prague Old Town Hall, Czech Republic
