Types

Buildings belonging to or used by members of professional, fraternal, or trades organizations.

Restaurants with counters at which soda water, ice cream, and light meals are served; may also be used to designate the dispensing equipment or counter itself, especially when found as fixtures in commercial buildings, such as drugstores.

Refers to the entire playing area upon which softball is played.

Buildings designed to store and use solar radiation for heat or electricity.

Houses designed to store and use solar radiation for heat or electricity.

Sunny rooms or balconies designed for exposure to the rays of the sun. In ancient Greek and Roman houses, solariums were open sunporches or apartments on the roofs of buildings. In modern usage, may also refer to rooms having large windows, particularly rooms provided for patients in hospitals or clinics.

Monuments honoring soldiers, often of a particular military branch, regiment or other group, or battle.

Dwellings in the United States owned and operated by societies for women for the benefit of their constituents and not open to the general public. They generally serve as a dormitory for sorority members in a college or university setting.

Buildings or spaces designed or used for audio recording, typically conforming to special acoustical requirements and having specialized equipment.

Resorts or other facilities possessing or located near natural mineral springs or pools that are valued because of the believed restorative or curative powers of the water; also, artificial pools or other aquatic facilities containing waters believed to have restorative powers. The term is derived from the proper name of Spa, Liège province, Belgium, celebrated for the believed curative properties of its mineral springs.

Buildings housing privately owned libraries established to meet the needs of the members or staff of the owning institution.

Privately owned libraries established, supported, and administered by a business firm, private corporation, association, government agency, etc., to meet the needs of its members or staff in pursuing the goals of the organization.

No description is available for this term.

Stores that carry a deep assortment within a narrow line of goods, such as furniture stores, florists, sporting goods stores, and bookstores.

Tracks or roads prepared for fast transportation, including roads for horses or motor vehicles where the dirt surface has been packed or covered with asphalt or another material, and the course is generally straight and flat, where possible.

A geometrical figure comprising the set of all points in three-dimensional space lying the same distance (the radius) from a given point (the center), or the result of rotating a circle about one of its diameters.

Textile mills in which thread is spun.

Staircases that are circular in plan, consisting entirely of winders or wedge-shaped steps.

Tall structures that are at least roughly pyramidal, polygonal, or conical and that rise from towers or roofs.

Small or miniature houses in which guardian or deceased spirits are invited to live. They may be set on wooden posts; they may exist in groups together in house compounds. The practice is common in several cutures, including among Native Americans, in Japan, in Thailand, and in other locations.

The processional approaches to tomb sites, flanked by pillars, stelae, and stone carvings which often take the form of guardian figures.

Houses in which the floor levels of adjacent living areas differ by less than a full story.

Stores specializing in the retail sale of sporting equipment, such as rackets, balls, clubs, etc., and specialized clothing designed to be worn while playing sports.

Designates buildings providing facilities for athletic events or training and, usually, support facilities for participants and spectators.

Building complexes and associated grounds that are designed for playing sports and the accommodation of large crowds of viewers, including seating or other viewing areas, dining facilities, tracks, pools, or various other playing areas. For inhabited places having sports as a focus, use "sporting centers (inhabited places)."

Buildings enclosing a natural spring; sufficiently cool for use as a storehouse of milk and other dairy products.

Water issuing naturally from the rock or soil upon the land or into a body of surface water.

Open public spaces in cities or towns, usually rectilinear, surrounded by buildings, and located at the junction of two or more thoroughfares.

Four-walled, enclosed courts marked for the racket and ball game of squash racquets.

No description is available for this term.

Buildings or portions of buildings for the housing and feeding of horses, cattle, and other such domestic animals, and often also for storing riding equipment and vehicles, and which occasionally have living quarters for associated personnel. For barnlike structures used primarily for housing farmstock and feed, see, for example, "horse barns" or "cattle barns."

Areas of shelves in a library.

Large usually unroofed buildings with tiers of seats for spectators built in various shapes and enclosing a field used for sports events.

Parts of theaters holding the stage and the space above it.

Stations or inns located on a stage route that provide change of horses for couriers and provisions for passengers.

Theatrical platforms, visible to an audience and commonly framed by a proscenium arch, on which performances are carried out.

Clearly articulated, often towerlike, building appendages containing only stairs.

Spaces, extending through one or more floors, that contain staircases.

Divisions of stables or barns, each accommodating one animal.

Tanks or vertical pipes connected to water-supply systems and used to insure uniform pressure or to store water for emergency use.

Buildings housing state legislatures in the U.S. states.

Buildings that house colleges that are financially supported by a state government, either the government of a U.S. state or the national government of certain other nations.

Buildings housing libraries maintained by state funds.

Parks owned or maintained by the state, particularly a U.S. state.

Buildings that house prisons administered by the state, particularly a state in the U.S.

Buildings that house universities that are financially supported by a state government.

Universities that are financially supported by a state government.

Rooms in a palace or great house, often splendidly decorated and used for official and State entertaining.

Intermediate stopping places along transportation routes; for the end points of such routes, use "terminals."

Sculpture in the round, usually but not always depicting humans, animals, mythical beings, or small figure groups. Statues are relatively large in scale, being life-size, larger than life-size, or only slightly smaller than life-size. For small-scale representations of humans, animals, or mythical beings, use "figurines," "statuettes," or another appropriate term. For depictions of humans, animals, or mythical beings in media other than sculpture, use "figures (representations)."

Wood churches with walls of vertical planks, used from at least the 9th century, especially in Scandinavia.

Establishments containing special enclosures for cleansing or refreshing oneself in a bath of steam.

Power plants in which the prime movers, usually turbines, connected to the generators are driven by steam to produce electricity.

Facilities where steel is processed and rolled into sheets.

Towers terminated by spires or approximations of spires; refers to the entire construction of tower, spire, and lantern, if present.

Upright stone slabs, plain or decorated, used as commemorative markers.

Structures that originated in Greek architecture, comprising freestanding colonnades or covered walkways, or long open buildings with the roof supported by one or more rows of columns parallel to the rear wall. Stoas surrounded marketplaces and sanctuaries, forming places of business and public promenade. Rooms could back onto the colonnade, and a second story was sometimes added. A famous example of a stoa was the great hall at Athens, which was adorned with frescoes of the battle of Marathon, and in which Zeno lectured, giving the name to his disciples, "Stoics."

Buildings that house a market for the buying and selling of public securities and where an association of brokers and jobbers transact business.

Defensive barriers of stakes, piles, or other timber and often including loopholes for gun fire, placed across entrenchments and redoubts, a harbor or river, or around a building, village, or another area in need of fortification.

Enclosed spaces with pens, stables, and sheds, where beef cattle are confined for fattening prior to market; usually associated with a railroad line.

Porches, platforms, entrance stairways, or small verandas at house doors.

The safekeeping of objects or materials in a depository, such as a warehouse or cabinet.

Buildings or other structures designed or utilized primarily for storage.

Rooms or areas in a structure that are allocated for storage.

Tanks used temporarily for containing fuel or another substance, usually liquid or gas rather than solid. The tanks are not intended to be linked to the equipment for which that fuel or other substance is intended.

Facades of stores or store buildings fronting a street and usually containing window display spaces. Facades of stores or store buildings fronting a street and usually containing window display spaces.

Buildings in which goods are stored.

Rooms set apart for the storing of goods or supplies in a home, public building, or ship.

Buildings offering merchandise for sale, usually on a retail basis.

Wholly or partially underground refuges from tornadoes or other violent storms.

No description is available for this term.

Systems used for conveying rainwater, surface water, condensate, cooling water, or similar liquid wastes, exclusive of sewage or industrial waste, to the storm sewer or other legal place of disposal.

A narrow waterway, usually narrower and less extensive than a sound, connecting two larger bodies of water.

Ornament consisting of twisted and intertwined bands, originally based on leather strips or ribbons; examples are those popular in Northern Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries and in 19th-century revivals.

Particular arrangements of vertical elements of a building as seen by observers from the primary street view.

Refers to those who sell food or small goods from temporary positions on the street. For those who move about selling small goods from door to door or on the street, see "peddlers."

A road in a city, town, or village, characterized by usually being paved and comparatively wide (as opposed to a lane or alley), and generally running between two rows of houses or other buildings.

Use to designate the physical environment of the streets including such elements as structures, open spaces, and vegetation.

Horizontal bands of masonry, generally narrower than other courses, extending across the face of a wall and in some instances continuing across piers or engaged columns; may be flush or projecting and may be flat surfaced, molded, or otherwise shaped.

No description is available for this term.

Refers to constructions of any kind artificially fabricated of parts joined together in some definite manner and which may or may not provide enclosure or shelter. Includes not just buildings, but other structures, for example oil wells, bridges, docks, and railroads. The term normally applies to structures built by humans, but may also apply to those built by other species.

Buildings on a college campus dedicated to social and organizational activities of the student body.

Rooms or spaces in domestic contexts used for reading, writing, and study.

Apartments containing one spacious room, often with large windows, which is or resembles an artist's studio, and serves as both a sitting area and a sleeping area, and with access to a separate bathroom and small kitchen.

Working places set aside for artists to work. The term is generally applied to workspaces used by artists creating fine art, particularly art dating from the 16th century to the present. The characteristics of a studio may be dictated by the practical requirements of adequate light, ample space in which to create the work of art, and storage of materials. Display of the finished art works and training may also be accommodated in a studio. Creation of an art work may require a range of artistic processes; therefore, separate areas of work may be delegated in the studio. The term may also refer to spaces used by dancers, singers, musicians, and other performing artists to create or practice. The term "workshops" is generally refers to spaces used by craftspeople, artists working prior to the 16th century, and industrial workers. For studios that are larger spaces or complexes, and are used to create films, television or radio programs, or other large scale productions, use "motion picture studios," "broadcasting studios," "sound studios," "recording studios," "radio studios," or "television studios."

Buddhist relic mounds of earth, brick, or stone, dominated by a hemispherical or bulbous dome set on a square or circular base and topped by a small pavilionlike structure and a spire. Stupas often serve as pilgrimage sites and symbols of the Buddha or his teachings.

Course of pavement on which columns rest in Greek temples. For similar features in other building types, including Roman or Etruscan temples, use "podiums (building divisions)."

Areas of land divided into blocks or lots, provided with streets or roads and open spaces, and then offered for sale or lease.

Houses located away from the urban center in the suburbs, typically segregated from the work place, and often near only limited shopping and entertainment sources. They are typically part of a group of houses having similar floorplans and styles.

Town and country areas with heterogeneous patchy mixture of residential areas, commercial centers, cropland, managed vegetation, and natural areas.

Compactly developed or developing, usually residential, areas on the outskirts of a central city; distinguished from central cities by their more homogeneous socio-economic and physical character, although rarely is there an identifiable boundary between suburbs and central cities.

Intermediate stopping places along subway lines.

Subsidiary agricultural buildings where sugar is refined, especially those where maple sugar and maple syrup are made.

Refers to a facility devoted to the production of high-quality sugars from remelted raw cane sugar or from remelted and recrystallized lower-grade beet syrups.

Successions of connected rooms, generally on one floor, that are occupied as one unit.

Camps providing recreational and sporting facilities during the summer holiday period, usually intended for children and often including overnight accommodations.

Homes in the country used as summer residences.

Palaces that provide summer, generally rural, retreats for rulers and their courts.

Resorts that operate seasonally during the summer months.

Structures of varying forms in gardens or parks designed to provide cool shady places of relaxation or retreats from summer heat.