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Glossary / Column

an upright post, usually a tapered cylinder, used for support or decoration; in classical architecture a column consists of a base, shaft and capital

A column and its components including an entablature, cornice, frieze, architrave, capital, shaft, and base

Building Examples

  • Winnipeg – Wardlaw Apartments
  • Winnipeg – St. Boniface City Hall
  • Winnipeg – Pantages Theatre
  • Winnipeg – Manitoba Legislative Building
  • Winnipeg – Carnegie Library
  • Winnipeg – Canadian Pacific Railway Station
  • Winnipeg – Bank of Toronto
  • Winnipeg – Bank of Nova Scotia
  • Winnipeg – Bank of Montreal
  • Winnipeg – Bank of Commerce (Millennium Centre)
  • Neepawa – Margaret Laurence House
  • Minnedosa – Myers House
  • Cooks Creek – Immaculate Conception Church
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  • Building Styles & Types
    • Styles
      • Art Deco
      • Art Modern
      • Bungalow
      • Chicago School
      • Classical Revival
      • Georgian
      • Georgian Revival
      • Gothic Revival
      • International
      • Italianate
      • Late Gothic Revival
      • Queen Anne Revival
      • Romanesque Revival
      • Second Empire
    • Types
      • Boomtown Structures
      • Eastern European Churches
      • Grain Elevators
      • Mennonite Housebarns
      • Indigenous Structures
      • Pattern Book Barns
      • Pattern Book Houses
      • Pioneer Barns
      • Prairie School
      • Railway Stations
      • Red River Frame Structure
      • Schools
      • Ukrainian Houses
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