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half-timbered: A building with exposed wood framing. The spaces between the wooden timbers are filled with plaster, brick, or stone. Used in early building.
hammer beams: Right angled support beams projecting from wall tops to brace wooden roofs.
high-relief: Sculpture in which the carved forms project only distinctively higher from the background.
High Victorian Gothic style:  Primarily a post-Civil War phenomenon.  Highlights are:  constructional polychrome; pointed arches; ornamental bricks, terra-cotta tiles; and patterned tile or slate roof.
hip roof:  A roof that slopes down to the eaves on all four sides. Hipped roofs are often found on French Inspired and American Foursquare style homes. Although a hipped roof is not gabled, it may have dormers or connecting wings with gables.
hood molding:  A projecting molding on the wall  above an arch.