Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Drop
Also called a gutta (pron. GUT a; plural: guttae)

Small cones carved under the triglyphs or mutules of a Doric entablature (1st illustration above)

Thought to represent pegs used in original wood construction of Greek temples

In the Renaissance, guttae are often stylized in the shape of a pyramid (2nd illustration above)

Latin: "gutta" = drop. Plural: guttae (pron. GUT ee)

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

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Right illustration above: Matthews House Renaissance Revival style
  
  
• Harlow Curtiss House
  
  
• Ethel Mann Curtiss House
  
  
• Schoellkopf-Vom Berge Manor
  
  
• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum
  
  
• Birge Memorial
  
  
• Forest Lawn Cemetery Administration Building
  
  
• 177 Bidwell Pkwy. Renaissance Revival style
  
  
• 177 Bidwell Pkwy. Renaissance Revival style
  
  
• Matthews House Renaissance Revival style
  
  
• Statler Hotel
  
  
• John W. Bush House
  
  
• Statler House - Arts & Crafts stylized

Examples from Europe:

• Left illustration above: Tholos, Delphi, Greece
  
  
• Temple of Athena Aphaia on the Island of Aegina, Greece

• Parthenon, Athens, Greece
  
  
• Propylaia, Athens, Greece
  
  
• Monastery, Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, Poland -- DETAIL
  
  
• Czestochowa, Poland -- DETAIL Renaissance Revival style

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