Engaged (original) (raw)

Architecture

Attached to a wall by being partly embedded or bonded to it

Engaged column: A column partially attached to a wall and projecing from 1/3 to 3/4 of the extent of its diameter

Found in almost all styles of architecture

Furniture

Engaged column: A column partially attached to a wall and projecing from 1/3 to 3/4 of the extent of its diameter

Examples from Buffalo :

• Illustration: Engaged column:Ansley Wilcox Mansion / Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
• Engaged tower: Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation
• Engaged column:Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• Engaged roof: 368 Linwood Ave.
• Engaged roof: 33 Days Park.
• Engaged columns: Buffalo Club
• Engaged columns: The Mansion on Delaware Avenue
• Engaged columns: 241 Lincoln Pkwy.
• Engaged urns: 70 Niagara Street
• Engaged dormer roof: 104 Chapin Plwy.
• Furniture: Empire bookcase - Old Editions Book Shop and Caf�

Other examples:

• John Jacob Glessner House, Chicago, IL
• St.Denis Abbey, Paris, France
• Roman Triumphal Arch, Orange, Provence, France