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The Ionic [[column]] is always more slender than the Doric; therefore, it always has a base:<ref name="Heck1856">{{cite book|author=Johann Georg Heck|title=The Art of Building in Ancient and Modern Times, Or, Architecture Illustrated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WHhJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25|year=1856|publisher=D. Appleton|page=25}}</ref> Ionic columns are eight and nine column-diameters tall, and even more in the [[Antebellum architecture|Antebellum]] colonnades of late American Greek Revival plantation houses.{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}

Ionic columns are most often [[Fluting (architecture)|fluted]]. After a little early experimentation, the number of hollow flutes in the shaft settled at 24. This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar proportion to the diameter of the column at any scale, even when the height of the column was exaggerated. Roman flutingFluting leaves a little of the column surface between each hollow; Greek fluting runs out to a knife edge that was easily scarred.

In some instances, the fluting has been omitted. English architect [[Inigo Jones]] introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House, Whitehall]], London, and when Beaux-Arts architect [[John Russell Pope]] wanted to convey the manly stamina combined with intellect of [[Theodore Roosevelt]], he left colossal Ionic columns unfluted on the Roosevelt memorial at the [[American Museum of Natural History]], New York City, for an unusual impression of strength and stature. Wabash Railroad architect R.E. Mohr included eight unfluted Ionic frontal columns on his 1928 design for the railroad's [[Delmar Boulevard station]] in St. Louis.