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It is a brick structure two and a half stories in height, having pedimental ends and corners quoined with stone.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

The front is of brick laid up in characteristic Flemish bond, while the other walls are of plastered rubble stone masonry, the brickwork and stonework being quoined together at the front corners.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

I need hardly say how much nobler this arrangement is than a common quoined angle; it gives a finish to the aspect of the whole pile attainable in no other way.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John