Dr. John R. Drish House
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The Dr. John R. Drish House, also known simply as the Drish House, is a historic plantation house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. It is considered by state preservationists to be one of the mos
Drish House in 2010, with stabilization measures underway
The Drish House in 1911, while still intact.
The Drish House in 1936, by Walker Evans.
Pilaster
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In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a
Dr. John R. Drish House
…William Nichols. The exterior of the house, as completed in 1837, featured full-width, monumental Doric porticoes to the front and rear, with two-story pilasters dividing each bay on all four sides. The house was extensively remodeled in the Italianate-style before the American Civil War, with a three-story brick…
Two decorative Corinthian pilasters in the Church of Saint-Sulpice (Paris)
Two fragments of French pilasters, made of oak, in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (New York City)
Illustrations of Ionic pilasters with festoons on their capitals, from Germany, in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Illustrations of Corinthian pilasters, from Germany, in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum