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STRUCTURE
MATERIAL
ROOF
TYPE
ADOBE
Conical
BRICK
Curbed
BRICK AND TIMBER
Curved
CLOTH AND POLES
Domed
RAMMED EARTH
Domed
(onion)
YURT
Dormered
GRASS AND POLES
Flat
METAL SHEET
Flat
(sloping)
MATTING
SOD
STONE
Hip
TIMBER
Lean-to
WATTLE
Mansard
WATTLE & DAUB
Pagoda
Parapeted
HEDGEROWS
Peaked
(various shapes)
Osage Orange
Pavilion
(pyramid-like)
Honey Locust
Sloping front
to back
Buckthorn
Hawthorn
INTERIOR
Privet
Bamboo
Poplar
Board
Arbor Vitae, Evergreen
Brick
Norway Spruce,
Evergreen
Brick, glazed
Hemlock,
Evergreen
Brick, mud
Cloth drapery
FLOOR
COVERINGS
Frame and paper
Brick
Lath and plaster
Clay
Leather curtain
Dirt
Rammed earth
Dirt, packed
Rattan
Stone flags
Stone, field*
Stone, block
Stone, hard*
Stone, field
Stone, soft*
Timber log
Tile
Timber log, split
Timber (log)
Wood plank
Tin
Wood strip
Wickerwork
ROOF
MATERIAL
FENCES
Bark
Barred, metal
Board
Barred, metal
spiked top
Brush
Board
Cloth
Brick
Copper
sheeting
Brick, mud
Hide
Hedge
Lead sheeting
Hedge, thorn
Leaf
Picket
Shingle, slate
Rail, split
Shingle, wood
(shake)
Sod
Stone, hard*
Stone, field*
Tarred
Stone, soft*
Thatching
Wire
Tile
WATTLE & DAUB
Tin
sheeting
WALLS
WINDOW
TYPES
Brick
Barred, bronze
Brick, mud
Barred, iron
Ditch
Barred, steel
Embarkment
Palisade
Barred, wooden
Embarkment
Ditch and Palisade
Barred with spiked

bars, bronze
Fence, board/plank
Barred with spiked

bars, iron
Fence, metal picket
Barred with spiked

bars, steel
Fence, wood picket
Clerestory
Firebrick
Glass
Moat
Glass, stain
Stone, field*
Grilled, iron
Stone, hard*
Grilled, steel
Stone, soft*
Grilled, wooden
Stone, field*,
unmortered
Grilled, bronze
Stone, hard*,
unmortered
Horn
Stone, soft*,
unmortered
Mica sheet
Palisade, timber
Paper or parchment,
oiled
Wall, thorn (bomba)
Roof
Wall, withes
Skin, sheep or goat,

oiled
Wall, wattle & daub
Open
Wall, withes
Open embrasure
arrow-slit, loop hole
Oriental Moon
window (circular)
Roof window
Shuttered
iron
Shuttered steel
Shuttered, wood, solid
Shuttered, wood,
boards
Shuttered, wood,
solid, metal bound
Shuttered, wood,
boards, metal bound
Wall, wattle & daub
TYPE
Apartment:
Boarding house:
Bungalow:
Bunkhouse:
Cabin:
Chalet:
Cot:
Cote:
Cottage:
Dugout:
Hall:
Hogan:
Hostel:
Hotel:
House:
Hovel:
Hut:
Hutch:
Igloo:
Lean-to:
Lodge:
Lodge:
Loft:
Log cabin:
Log house:
Manor:
Manse:
Mansion:
Moat house:
Palace:
Pavilion:
Penny-rent:
Pension:
Rooming house:
Shack:
Shanty:
Sod house:
Teepee (tipi):
Tent:
Vicarage:
Villa:
Wickiup:
Wigwam:
Yurt:
DEFINITION
A room or a set of rooms used as a dwelling and located in a private house, an inn,
necessary passages and hallways.
A private residence in which persons can pay a fee for lodging and board.
A lightly built cottage or single-story house (originally of the Far East) that is usual
roofed, open gallery or portico attached to the exterior of a building and used for s
A rough simple building providing sleeping quarters with bunk beds such as provid
and ranch hands.
A structure of stakes with withes woven between them and a roof of thatch; a struc
them and a roof of various crude sorts.
A cottage or house characterized by unconcealed structural members that are ofte

wide overhang at the front and sides, and balconies and an exterior staircase unde
A small house; a cottage or hut.
The holding of a cotter consisting typically of a house or hut and five acres of land,
The dwelling of a rural laborer, small farmer, or miner; a small hut or shack built as
hunters.
A shelter or primitive dwelling excavated in a hillside or dug in the ground, sometim

roofed with sod.
The largest room in a castle or the house of a medieval aristocrat.
A conical, hexagonal, or octagonal dwelling (characteristic of the Navaho Indian) m

logs and sticks covered with mud, sods, or adobe or sometimes made of stones.
A house for lodging that is usually maintained by a public or private organization o
A house licensed by the community to provide lodging and usually meals, entertain
A structure intended or used for human habitation; a building that serves as a resid
busine
A shed or open-sided roofed shelter for human beings; a poor cottage or hut.
A structure that is usually meant to be temporary, the simplest of which are conica
A pen or coop for an animal.
A small house usually made of sod, wood, or stone when permanent or of snow blo
A rough construction formed by a sloping roof supported typically by two uprights
abuts.
A small or temporary dwellin; a rude shelter or abode (as a hut, cabin, tent).
A rustic building used by aristocrats when away from home while hunting or fishing
season; a house on an estate for the use of a gamekeeper, caretaker, porter, or sim
tent) used mainly by uncivilized natives.
The uppermost portion of a building, such as an attic, garret, or hayloft.
A four-sided dwelling of roughly stacked logs chinked with clay and moss or like su
A large construction of well-fitted logs with multiple rooms typical of the north (Sca
The house and attendant land of a gentleman, knight, lord; a landed estate, its ow
thereof, including the right to hold (low) court and usually having tenants of varyin
and marked by a large degree of economic self-sufficiency.
The house of the holder of a homestead, or the residence of a clergyman.
The house (manor house) of the owner of a manor; a large imposing residence serv
A fortified residence of manor house sort that is surrounded by a moat containing w
The official residence of a sovereign, great noble, or of a high ecclesiastic.
A large tent with a tall, pointed, often conical roof.
A public house for the lodging of workers or travelers at a nominal rent.
Accommodations at a hotel or boardinghouse; a regular sum of money
A house where rooms are provided, often somewhat arbitrarily defined for the purp
usually with provision for board at an extra charge.
A small roughly built and often crudely furnished single-story house.
A small poorly built dwelling usually made of wood.
A house with walls built of sod or turf laid in horizontal layers.
An American Indian conical tent used especially by the Plains tribes and consisting
kind of lodge.
A collapsible shelter of canvas or other material stretched and sustained by poles,
the ground.
The house or benefice of a vicar (a ecclesiastical representative or agent).
A detached or semidetached residence with yard and garden space generally in the
A hut used by the nomadic Indians of the arid regions of the western and southwes
rough frame covered with reed mats or grass or brushwood.
A hut of the Indians of the region of the Great Lakes and eastward having typically
with bark, rush mats, or hides.
A circular domed tent consisting of skins or felt stretched over a collapsible lattice
of Siberia; yurts are frequently set atop broad wagons

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STRUCTURE

BRICK AND TIMBER

CLOTH AND POLES

GRASS AND POLES

WATTLE & DAUB

Arbor Vitae, Evergreen

Frame and paper

Lath and plaster

Timber log, split

WATTLE & DAUB

Barred with spiked

Barred with spiked

Fence, metal picket

Barred with spiked

Fence, wood picket

Wall, thorn (bomba)

Skin, sheep or goat,

Wall, wattle & daub

Shuttered, wood, solid

Wall, wattle & daub

A cottage or house characterized by unconcealed structural members that are ofte

A shelter or primitive dwelling excavated in a hillside or dug in the ground, sometim

A conical, hexagonal, or octagonal dwelling (characteristic of the Navaho Indian) m

A house for lodging that is usually maintained by a public or private organization o

A pen or coop for an animal.

A fortified residence of manor house sort that is surrounded by a moat containing w

The official residence of a sovereign, great noble, or of a high ecclesiastic.

A large tent with a tall, pointed, often conical roof.

A public house for the lodging of workers or travelers at a nominal rent.

Accommodations at a hotel or boardinghouse; a regular sum of money

A small poorly built dwelling usually made of wood.

A house with walls built of sod or turf laid in horizontal layers.

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