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mansard roof

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mansard roof (măn`särd), type of roof, so named because it was frequently used by the French architect François Mansart Mansart or Mansard, François (both: fräNswä` mäNsär`)
..... Click the link for more information. . It was not devised by him but was used early in the 16th cent., as in portions of the palace of the Louvre designed by Pierre Lescot. 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. This results in a higher and more useful interior space than can be obtained with other roof types.
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Morse, who designed the building, used rusticated granite for the base, Indiana limestone for the two-story arches, light brick and terra cotta for the body, and capped the building with a dormered, mansard roof of Spanish tile.
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According to Stratton, planning commissioners thought they were following the directions of council members by rejecting Kinko's plan to use canvas awnings rather than reconstruct the mansard roof line at considerable expense.
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