Relief panels

A glorious ceramic explosion between the first and second floor windows. Byzantine revival, Assyrian boogie--I love all that 1890's exotica!

A relief is a carving, chasing, or embossing raised above a background plane.

Beneath the windows, over the skirtboard or stringcourse, the popular lozenge makes an appearance.

Relief panels are also called Bas-relief panels. Bas-relief is French for low relief, derived from the Italian basso rilievo: sculpture that is not free, standing, or in the round.
The flat panels beneath the second story windows look like painted plywood, dismal replacements for some doubtlessly exuberant ill-tended relief. Such indignities!

Liberty style foliage and a dental frieze at the cornice.

And between the windows, another panel, with some sort of open fretwork, rectangular form. I've seen that form before, it must have a name....oh damn, I feel another obsession--er pursuit--coming on