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A series of columns in a straight line carrying an entablature

In Classical architecture, a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often freestanding

A row of columns, either surrounding a temple or standing as an independent architectural element

A series of columns placed at regular intervals.

A row of evenly spaced columns, usually supporting a roof or a set of arches.

Peristyle: A colonnade surrounding either the exterior of a building or an open space, e.g., a courtyard.

Row of columns generally supporting an entablature, used either as an independent feature (e.g., a covered walkway) or as part of a building (e.g., a portico).

The earliest colonnades appear in the temple architecture of ancient Greece.

In a basilica [or church], colonnades are used to separate the side aisles from the central space.

- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia   (1/2011)

In classical architecture, a colonnade denotes a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.

When in front of a building, screening the door (Latin porta), it is called a portico, when enclosing an open court, a peristyle.

A portico may be more than one rank of columns deep, as at the Pantheon in Rome...

- Wikipedia (1/2011)

Portico: Colonnade standing before a building, supporting a roof, and serving as a porch

Peristyle: Colonnade surrounding a building or garden.

Tetrastyle: Four columns in a row
Hexastyle: Six columns in a row
Octastyle: Eight columns in a row
Decastyle: Ten columns in a row

Loggia: An arcaded or colonnaded porch or gallery attached to a larger structure

Found in classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire


Examples from Buffalo architecture

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