Elements of The Style
Key visual components of this style include:
- Low-pitched or flat roofs; roof is frequently hipped
- Projecting eaves supported by corbels
- Imposing cornice structures
- Pedimented windows and doors
- Arch-headed, pedimented or Serlian windows with pronounced architraves and archivolts
- Tall first floor windows suggesting a piano nobile
- Angled bay windows
- Attics with a row of awning windows between the eave brackets
- Glazed doors
- Belvedere or machicolated signorial towers
- Cupolas
- Quoins
- Loggias
- Balconies with wrought-iron railings, or Renaissance balustrading
- Balustrades concealing the roof-scape
- About 15% of Italianate houses in the United States include a tower
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