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Cabana
Small cabin, simple enclosure, or tentlike structure erected at beaches or swimming pools as bathhouses.
Carriage house
Building where a wheeled vehicle, especially a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle is parked or housed.
Caryatids
Supporting members serving the function of a pier, column, or pilaster and carved or molded into the form of a draped female human figure.
Cascades
Man-made stepped waterfalls, whether naturalistic or architectural in form. For similar natural or highly naturalistic features, see waterfalls.
Casinos (garden structures)
A term referring mostly to a small pavilion or lodge on the grounds of an Italian villa garden. Usually casino denotes a summerhouse for dining and refreshment some distance from the principal villa residence; but in cases where a villa might be used simply for a day's sojourn, it signifies the pleasure pavilion that serves as its principal architectural structure.
Catena d'acqua
The Italian term for water chain, an ornamental inclined channel designed to catch and animate the water falling from one shallow basin into another. See water chains.
Chateaux
Large country houses in France, which were usually fortified before the sixteenth century.
Classical revival
Late 18th- to early 20th-century architecture and ornament based relatively closely on ancient classical forms.
Colonnades
Rows of columns supporting an entablature and often one side of a roof. Includes spaces behind such a feature when they are long and used for circulation.
Conservatories
Greenhouses or mostly glazed rooms, devoted to growing and displaying plants and attached to a residence.
Corinthian order
Architectural order characterized by a capital having a bell-shaped echinus decorated with a combination of spiral and plant, usually acanthus motifs.
Courtyards
Uncovered areas, surrounded or partially surrounded by the walls of a building.
Crenellations
See battlements.
Cupolas
Small structures built on the ridges of roofs, particularly common in American architecture; when these structures are intended to be used as lookouts, prefer belvederes.
Cryptoportici
Corridors or galleries in Roman architecture with windowlike openings, whether subterranean or above ground.
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