These break the main cornice, along with the brick piers at the corners and center bay.

The main cornice is gekröpft, goes about the stepping forward pilasters.

The mansard above the main cornice is supported by massive consoles.

The main cornice around the entire house includes modillion blocks just above a Greek fret.

In the frieze under the main cornice, occasional discreet square openings give light to the low attics.

From the main cornice to a low plinth, the miniature palace is clothed in the so-called "colossal order", which makes the structure look more impressive.

The exterior of the building is similar to any other trabeated building, exposing pilasters that carry the main cornices and parapets.

The main cornice is surmounted by a French Renaissance design feature, an inscribed tablet in a grand architectural framing.

They also furnished the continuous main cornice with red stuccoed marble and all the pilasters with the same material in an elegant grey.

Above the main cornice rises a high, weighty 4.40m high attic on which is a central tablet bearing the dedicatory inscription.

The columns, main cornice, frieze, and the doors and door trim were constructed of metal, with other trim features of concrete.

Mansart raised its drum with an attic storey over its main cornice, and employed the paired columns motif in his more complicated rhythmic theme.

Above the main cornice are standing sculptures representing the great seafaring nations, representing American seagoing commerce as the modern heir of the Phoenicians.

The original lines were preserved and the entire building was brought together visually by a strong rotating main cornice, crowned by a balustrade around the flat roof.

There is paneled brickwork between the windows on the fifth floor level, and a parapet across the top that was added when the original main cornice was removed.

A denticulated main cornice and delicate window caps add decorative interest to the facade, while attention is drawn to the entrance by a columned porch with cove ceiling.

The new gate was almost 4 metres wide and 4 metres tall and as an architectural curiosity, with canon barrels used as columns to support the main cornice.

The first main cornice, above the third floor, is a series of grotesque heads, yelling, scowling, laughing, grimacing, but so small the joke is apparent only to those who look for it.

In the Attic block, above the main cornice of the central block, stand six colossal statues (modeled on the Dacian prisoners of the Arch of Constantine) designed by Louis St. Gaudens.

Even though property prices in the area were very high, the Morgan building was purposely designed to be only four stories tall; the contrast to the surrounding high-rises is reinforced by the astylar exterior, rendered as a single high piano nobile over a low basement, with a mezzanine above, and an attic storey above the main cornice.