portico

Bulletproof glass encasing the portico for his annual appearance with the Easter Bunny?

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

A portico with muscular Doric columns doubles as a terrace, as if Von Stuck had built himself a temple rather than a mere home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Paper lanterns were laid across the courtyard, as they had been at a public viewing of Armani's body in Milan earlier this month, with the models walking under the portico.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

Trump finally appeared on the portico of the Blue Room after 7 p.m. on Wednesday to welcome new interns to what the White House described as a “soiree” on the South Lawn.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025

Four graceful columns supported the portico, and the huge double door featured a heavy, brass knocker.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Its White City—a temporary demonstration of the grandeur of classical architecture, with Greek and Roman-style colonnades and porticoes arranged around a lake—had been designed by America’s greatest architects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Surrounded by columns, fountains, porticoes and an outdoor fireplace, it feels more like the Mediterranean than St. Louis.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2018

Shed-like porticoes built during the 20th century at the front and rear doors appear to be caving in.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2017

Spirits rising, she found herself refurbishing the 19th-century Greek Revival house with porticoes that is set on a slope overlooking the barns, pastures and hayfields of a working farm.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2017

Some had domes and columned porticoes, like national monuments.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The entire city is filled with beautiful archways and pillars and covered porticos.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

At Bard, the weather drove us inside and out, from his office to benches and tables and porticos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

On any given weekend, a string of young women spools out onto Mount Auburn Street in front of one or another of the club porticos.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016

Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces—a city of mansions—all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan