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

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

The administration invited dozens of influencers to the White House for this year’s State of the Union address, where they recorded selfies from the portico as the president’s motorcade came and went from the Capitol.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

The door under the little portico was unlocked, and they ran inside to find themselves in a bare circular room with several statues of goddesses in niches around the wall.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

Its sagging porticoes can be removed, its roof replaced, the stucco on its exterior walls fixed or scraped off.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2017

Front doors are set back several feet from the facades to create sheltering porticoes.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 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

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

We could tell it was Federal style by the symmetrical design with porticos supported by Ionic columns, fanlights over the doors and keystone lintels.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021

Once rioters were outside, D.C. police handled removing them from the external stairs, porticos and balconies of the Capitol.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2021

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