Not sure of the architectural use, but I'm pretty sure it's also something that Mexicans eat.

What people tell the kids Santa would be coming down after Christmas Eve happy hour!

Dare I say "How grotesque"?   

But I'm actually thinking of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins....and now you may not be able to stop singing that song the rest of the day...You're welcome.

Is that one of those little chimneys that you see in yards througout the SW?

A Greek fraternity Chi Me Ra

Kissin cousin of Funky Cold Medina!

I like John Bear's answer.

I thought a 'chimera' was an exact duplicate even more exact than a twin? Maybe that was a bad horror movie I'm thinking about ?????

a nasty creature.....

I just remember the creature from Greek mythology. So I am going with my pet that breathes fire on those who don't cooperate with me.

Perhaps another cousin lurking ...

Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be

A fire-breathing female monster.

Half real half virtual reality structure used to hold up Zillow headquarter.

What I see in the mirror shaving in the morning!

Isn't that the gargoyle's pet?

Ugly decoration!?

In Greek mythology, the Chimera was a fearsome, fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a dragon's tai

Sounds like a desease or a mythological monster.

Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers Another good educational question.

The Chimera was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of more than one animal.

Thanks.

Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers - Now is that Cinema?

Some new fad

It's a song from Mary Poppins.

I don't know the meaning in Architecture I know it in Greek mythology

a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature  composed of the parts of more than one animal

Pretty sure that is the fireplace you put on the deck!