Braggville/Wellesley pink granite: an igneous rock with large crystal or grains of visible size, consists mainly of quartz, feldspar, and mica, or other colored materials

Joliet limestone: rock of sedimentary origin composed of calcite or dolomite or both, used as building stone or crushed-stone aggregate.

Chicago common brick: ordinary bricks intended for structural purposes; used as backing for terra cotta, stone and face brick, and for interior or exterior walls where appearance is not of great concern.

Terra cotta roof tiles: hard, unglazed fired clay, either plain or ornamental, machine-made or hand-molded, usually larger in size than brick or facing tile.

Battered wall: a wall that is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

Colonnette: a small column, usually decorative.

Coping stone: stone which forms a protective cap, top or cover of wall, parapet, pilaster or chimney.

Dentils: small square blocks found in series on many cornices, moldings, etc.

Dovecot: a pigeon house, generally rounded or square in plan, whose inner face is honeycombed with niches for nesting.

Lintel: a horizontal structural member (such as a beam) over an opening which carries the weight of the wall above it, usually of steel, stone or wood.

Tympanum: a triangular or segmental space enclosed by a pediment or arch, as above a window, or between the lintel of a door and the arch above.

Voussoir: a wedged-shaped masonry unit in an arch or vault whose converging sides are cut as radii of one of the centers of the arch or vault.

Conservatory: a house or glass-enclosed room of a house for the cultivation and display of plants.

Turret: a diminutive tower, characteristically corbelled from a corner.

Richardsonian Romanesque: characterized by rock-faced walls with heavily-emphasized arches, lintels and other structural features; stresses weight, massiveness and solidity; distinct departure from delicate Queen Anne Style. In the 1870s and 1880s, Richardson transformed the Romanesque style of the 1840s and 1850s into something bolder, rougher, heavier, and more horizontal, marked by cavernous doors, deep windows and solid columns.