Illustrated Architecture Dictionary

Bargeboard
Also called vergeboard or gableboard

A board, often ornately carved or pierced, fixed to the projecting edge of a gable roof

Cut out bargeboad

Commonly found in Gothic Revival architecture (1830-1860), Queen Anne architecture (1880-1910), and Tudor Revival architecture (early 20th century).

In Eastlake and Queen Anne styles, carved vergeboards sometimes include scroll-sawn cutouts, bull's eyes, beaded spindles, turned spindles, sunbursts, or (drop) pendants.

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Illustration above:  Tudor Revival -  Jewett M. Richmond House
  
  
• Eastlake - A. Simson House, 56 North Pearl Street
  
  
• Stick style - Franklin W. Caulkins House
  
  
• Gothic Revival - Richard Hatch House
  
  
• Stick style - 167 Park Street
  
  
• Stick style - Foster House, 3 St. John's Place
  
  
• Tudor Revival - 167 Louvaine Dr., Kenmore
  
  
• Tudor Revival - 43 Nottingham Ter.
  
  
• Stick style - Albert J. Wright House / Beau Fleuve
  
  
• Stick style - 90 Bryant St. - Example 1
  
  
• Stick style - 90 Bryant St. - Example 2
  
  
• Stick style - 90 Bryant St. - Example 3
  
  
• Tudor Revival - 57 Nottingham Terr.
  
  
• 24 Buffalo Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY c. 1855, built for Dexter R. Jerauld; was the Niagara Club from 1904 to 1996

Other examples:

• 196 Montgomery St., Newburgh, NY

• Hoyt House, Staatsburg, N.Y.
  
  
• San Francisco "Painted lady"
  
  
• Sawtooth - 2 Rue Maupertuis, Nyon, Switzerland
  

• Russian Gothic - Church on Spilled Blood, St. Petersburg, Russia
  
  
• Russian Gothic - Church of the Intercession, Kizhi, Russia
  
  
• Sawtooth - Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus. Kizhi, Russia
  

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