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  Mansard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mansard in architecture refers to a style of hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its four sides with the lower slope being much steeper, almost a vertical wall, while the upper slope, usually not visible from the ground, is pitched at the minimum needed to shed water.
Often the decorative potential of the Mansard is exploited through the use of convex or concave curvature and with elaborate dormer window surrounds.
A revival of the Mansard occurred in the 1850s rebuilding of Paris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansard   (305 words)

  
 Mansard roof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A mansard roof is a roof with two slopes on all four sides, with the lower slope nearly vertical and the upper nearly horizontal.
Second Empire style mansard roof in a county jail in Mount Gilead, Ohio.
Mansards may be seen on New York City's former Grand Central Hotel (1869).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansard_roof   (209 words)

  
 Mansard.org History References
The roof is the main characteristic of a Mansard.
The Mansard style became very popular because the roof is very efficient for allowing the top floor to be completely used (at the expense of a full-size attic).
Mansards are often referred to as "Second Empire Mansards".
www.mansard.org /history.htm   (202 words)

  
 Roadside Art Online: The Mansards
The American mansard revival originated in the 1960s among oil companies aiming to replace their moderne gas station architecture with an earthier look.
Corporate McDonald's may have helped originate it, but mansardism became a true vernacular, executed by folks who believed the mansard was just the thing to add substance and distinction, even better when the sign matched the building it advertised.
The new mansards proved extremely versatile disguises for toning down the visual persona of wayside vending." Liebs cites an argument that the modern mansard style originated in Texas and Florida, though he noted (in 1985) that more research was needed to determine where it actually took root.
www.interestingideas.com /roadside/mansard/mansard2.htm   (757 words)

  
 Wells River Graded School
The mansard roof on the front (west) elevation is punctuated by a single dormer window on either side of the pavilion and by a dormer with paired windows on the front elevation of the pavilion.
The mansard on the pavilion maintains a continuous cornice line with the cornice on the main block of the building but projects approximately 12 feet above the height of the mansard on the main block.
The mansard on the pavilion is surmounted by a slate-covered gable roof which is fenced off behind decorative cast and wrought iron fretwork.
www.crjc.org /heritage/V16-2.htm   (1758 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jules Mansard
French architect, grand-nephew of François, was originally Jules Hardouin, but took the name of Mansard; was born in Paris, 1646; died at Marly 1708.
Nearly all the architectural undertakings of this king are linked with the name of Jules Mansard, who, indeed, has been blamed, rightly or wrongly, for some of Louis's extravagant expenditures.
Mansard generally laid more stress on elegance of effect than on monumental grandeur, so that some of his effects tend to triviality.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09609b.htm   (452 words)

  
 Cedar Shake & Shingle Bureau
The mansard is particularly well suited to renovation work on pitched roof houses because the upper story can be enlarged without adding extra height to the structure.
The low downward slope of the mansard roof line acts visually to reduce the scale of a building and helps to eliminate a boxy appearance.
Cedar shakes, with their heavier texture and solid appearance, are perhaps more frequently specified for mansards although shingles are also used, particularly when a lighter scale is desired.
www.cedarbureau.org /installation/roof_manual/page06.htm   (277 words)

  
 Powelton Village - Philadelphia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mansarded porch fronted half of double house, random crazy quilt ashlar facade, side walls of brick.
Circa 1875, two-and-one-half story Second Empire style mansarded double with smooth cut ashlar facade on brick construction., Original wood porch with carved millwork and scroll-shaped brackets intact.
Circa 1885 two-and-one-half story red brick double, mansard roof; projecting front gables; pressed and corbelled brick detail; appears to have been sandblasted.
www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/langlab/powelton/inventory/n34.html   (622 words)

  
 Architecture Design Handbook: Architectural Details: Roofing Systems - Mansard Roofing
Special Conditions: Since mansards are inherently used on vertical or nearly vertical surfaces, most of the special provisions for low slope standing and batten seams are not necessary.
Bottom of Mansard This is a typical condition for the lower edge of a mansard.
The pans shown are continuous from the face of the mansard over the edge onto the roof.
www.copper.org /applications/architecture/arch_dhb/roofing/mansard_roofing.html   (813 words)

  
 Fraser Cedar Prdoducts Ltd - MANSARD ROOF DETAILS (Cont'd)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The low downward slope of the mansard roof line acts visually to reduce the scale of a buliding and helps to eliminate a boxy appearance.
Two of the most widely used roofing materials on the mansard roof are Western Red Cedar shingles and shakes.
Cedar shakes, with thier heavier texture and solid appearance, are perhaps more frequently specified for mansards although shingles are also used, particularly when a lighter scale is desired.
www.frasercedarproducts.com /page9.html   (273 words)

  
 Historic Preservation -- Teachout House
The mansard style was imported from France just before the war and swept the country in the postwar decade.
The fashion was especially popular in urban America, where cramped land space gave value to the extra attic rooms tucked under the steep pitch of the mansard roof.
The mansard craze of the 1960s, widely favored among condominium and commercial strip developers, rolled through just a century after the first wave.
www.oberlin.edu /external/EOG/HistoricPreservation/HPTeachoutHouse.html   (167 words)

  
 Spode Mansard Best Prices
Mansard, once forgotten, was discovered in Spode's vast archives of old designs.
First made in the 1920's, Mansard is a dramatic, all-white design named after the French architect, Mansard.
Please select the pieces of Mansard china you would like to order and click the "Add to Cart" Button at the bottom of the page to purchase your dinnerware.
www.bestbuysilver.com /spode/Mansard.html   (168 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Mansard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
MANSARD [Mansard] for French architects thus named, use Mansart.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Mansard" at HighBeam.
Standing seam mansard blends with Brooklyn: fluoropolymer finish gives steel roof a copper-like appearance.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/IX-Mansard.asp   (123 words)

  
 Improvenet Inc. : Home Owner
We are purchasing a two-unit, 80 year old building in which 3/4 of roof is flat and 1/4 is clay tile mansard.
The new flat roof will be EDPM rubber and new mansard will be shingle.
One option an insulation contractor mentioned to us was tearing off about a 5' wide portion of sheathing (exposing rafters) down the middle of the building, then blowing in insulation.
www.improvenet.com /HomeOwner/AdviceandResources/MessageBoard/discussion.html?ID=77085   (227 words)

  
 Mansard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Text edited from an article written by George Kennedy, School Architect and reproduced in the Spring 1950 edition of the Gordonstoun Record.
The Mansard Building took its name from Francois Mansard, a French architect born in Paris in 1598.
His work featured a roof with two slopes, the lower almost vertical to allow extra roof space for attic rooms.
www.gordonstoun.org.uk /grdnstn/alumni/archives/arch1/pages/mansard.htm   (343 words)

  
 UWEC G367 vogeler -- Eau Claire: Mansard-Roofed Houses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mansard roofs are a 19th century feature of houses.
Contemporary apartment buildings use the mansard roof to obtain a "homey" look.
The style reappeared in the 1970s as a way of differentiating suburban houses.
www.uwec.edu /geography/ivogeler/w367/parts/p231.htm   (61 words)

  
 Mansard
mansard roof - mansard roof, type of roof, so named because it was frequently used by the French architect...
François Mansart - Mansart or Mansard, François, 1598–1666, French architect.
Jules Hardouin Mansart - Mansart or Mansard, Jules Hardouin, 1646–1708, French architect.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0831597.html   (106 words)

  
 Meigs Lodges - Office of Facilities Management   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
They were built in different, local materials and were all "L" shaped with a porch, three main rooms on each level and usually a mansard roof.
The Meigs lodges were of late Victorian Second Empire design with mansard roof, a story and a half over a basement in an inverted L-shape.
Most roofs were mansard and many had decorative fish scale slate and hexagonal slate with patterns formed by variations in color.
www.va.gov /facmgt/historic/Meigs.asp   (2409 words)

  
 A Picture of a House with a Mansard Roof - B4UBUILD.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This contemporary style home has a mansard roof covered with cedar shingles and a light brown brick veneer.
The shed dormers on the second floor have a single pitch roof with a low slope and the casement windows relate nicely to the windows below.
The overhang created by this roof design together with a slightly recessed front entryway, provide a nice covered porch effect.
www.b4ubuild.com /photos/mansard/man001.html   (100 words)

  
 Powelton Village - Philadelphia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Front, which was probably a circa 1900, two-story porch addition like its neighbor 3413-3415, has been filled in, faced with permastone stucco; colonial windows and third story added.
Scroll-shaped and simple bracketed cornice border mansard which has two dormers with arched window heads.
height windows, and mansard with patterned polychromatic slate shingles..
www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/langlab/powelton/inventory/race.html   (647 words)

  
 mansard roof
It became particularly characteristic of French Renaissance architecture and later was much used in Victorian buildings in Europe and America.
The slope of a mansard roof from eaves to ridge is broken into two portions.
The lower portion is built with a steep pitch, sometimes almost vertical; the upper portion has a low pitch or is nearly flat.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0831598.html   (156 words)

  
 The Mansard House B&B: What
Built in 1891, the house was completely restored to heritage status by the present owners over the last two years.
The Mansard House is "designated" as a Victoria heritage building.
The Mansard House BandB, 609 Toronto St., Victoria, B.C., Canada.
www.mansardhouse.ca /why.html   (283 words)

  
 Mansard Detail
The Second Empire or Mansard style house is the perfect setting for a horror film.
And indeed, with its tall mansard roof and wrought iron cresting, a Second Empire home may create a sense of looming height.
Originating during the Renaissance, the high, boxy mansard roof has a long and interesting history.
www.assonetriver.com /preservation/dist_style_detail.asp?SID=27   (218 words)

  
 Second Empire Mansard Roof
The Second Empire house has a mansard roof that is a dual-pitched, hipped roof with dormer windows on a steep lower slope.
It has molded cornices that bound the lower roof slope both above, and below.
The Second Empire style was used for many public buildings in America during the Grant administration (1868-77).
www.midtel.net /~mcselem/architecture/second_empire_mansard_roof.htm   (154 words)

  
 Mansard Stock Photos / Photography / Royalty Free Images at Inmagine
Mansard Stock Photos / Photography / Royalty Free Images at Inmagine
Pavillion d'Horloge building fa?ade, mansard roof with carved statues surrounding windows
Detail of Mansard Roof and Building Structure from the Marble Courtyard Palace of Versailles
www.inmagine.com /searchterms/mansard.html   (83 words)

  
 Second Empire Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bellefonte, PA. Basically, Second Empire architecture is Italianate style with a Mansard roof.
During the 1970s and 80s, the Mansard roof became popular once again, especially for auto-oriented apartments and commercial buildings along America's newer commercial strips.
Some critics refer to it as the "revenge of the Mansard".
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~twp/architecture/secondempire   (294 words)

  
 Mansard Shed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The stylish Mansard roof design sets this one apart from the plain storage shed.
Handy for garden tools and lawn equipment with a 4’ wide door.
Dress up your back yard with this functional Mansard Shed.
www.unitedbuildingcenters.com /project_items.asp?s=1&i=62   (48 words)

  
 Mansard Suite, Hartstone Inn - Camden, Maine B&B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mansard Suite, Hartstone Inn - Camden, Maine BandB
The spacious Mansard room is dedicated to 17th century French architect Francois Mansart, for whom the high-pitched, two-sloped roof of the Inn is named after.
This room is decorated to celebrate his French heritage.
www.hartstoneinn.com /rmmansard.htm   (159 words)

  
 Mobile Classrooms, Office Trailers, & Modular Church Buildings from Rose Office Systems
Stucco siding with Hi Rib angled metal mansard roofline
Pitch of roof is hidden by square mansard.
Triple wide at Dole Foods, Gulfport, MS Shown with High Rib Steel siding and false mansard
www.roseoffices.com /photoalbum.asp?action=showalbum&id=1026   (147 words)

  
 Stock Photo of a Mansard Roof of a Victorian House - Acclaim Stock Photography
Stock Photo of a Mansard Roof of a Victorian House - Acclaim Stock Photography
Stock Photo of a Mansard Roof of a Victorian House
Stock Photo Description: Stock photo of a mansard roof of a Victorian House in the afternoon sunset, Haverhill MA.
www.acclaimimages.com /_gallery/_pages/0200-0602-1107-0451.html   (174 words)

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