Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Portico
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Plural: porticos, porticoes
A roofed entrance porch supported on at least one side by columns
Classical Greek architeture: A portico was the principal porch or entrance to a Greek temple, and was roofed and usually open at the sides. The number of columns that made up a portico determined its architectural name. For example, tetrastyle (four columns), hexastyle (six columns), octastyle (eight columns), decastyle (ten columns).Often, a classical building consisted of several colonnades, several rows deep. In Classical architecture, the front row or rows is known as the portico,; when surrounding a building or an open court or square, a peristyle.
Peripteral portico: portico that extends around two or more sides of a house
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above: Williams-Butler House
- Williams-Pratt House
- Frank H. Goodyear Mausoleum
- City Hall
- Charles F. Sternberg House / The Mansion on Delaware Avenue
- Robert B. Adam House
- Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum
- Our Lady of Victory Basilica
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Alexander Main Curtiss House
- Ralph G. Kittinger House
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