[wardaddy]

Beautiful...is that called a widow's walk on top?

btw...that about does it

i'm selling my leave it to beaver ranch for something with more character....(in my dreams)

[dixiechick2000]

"Beautiful...is that called a widow's walk on top?"


That's exactly what it looks like to me, wardaddy.
Absolutely beautiful, AAM!
I've been to Eufaula...lovely little town.

[AnAmericanMother]

Some people call it a widow's walk, some a "belvedere". The structure itself is called a cupola.

You've hit on what's probably the main feature of the Italianate style of American architecture -- popularized in the 1840s and 50s by an architect named Downing (things were slow to reach what was still the Alabama frontier in those days!) The heavy cornice brackets under the roof overhang are the other feature that you always see.

The Greek Revival style was much more popular, and most of the houses you see on the Eufaula tour of homes are in some variation or other of that style.