Thanks so much! I did run across the term Belvedere, but that’s not once I ever heard before I went searching for the mystery term. 
I too love the classic Victorian homes. So INTERESTING! Nooks and interesting features everywhere. Even the closets were different and creative.
Thanks for your help!
GREAT STORY! Thanks for sharing it!
Thanks for your response. No, not belfry, but like you, I can see how people may use a term like that to describe our two-story bay.
You are so nice to try so hard!!! Conservatory isn’t it either. I remember as a child thinking the word didn’t seem to fit the feature. I remember thinking it was an ungly word for such a pretty thing.
Looking into castle terminology brings up the possibilities of apse, bartizan, and maybe bastion. Any of those ring a bell?
“mirador?” chiefly used in Spanish architecture.
Solarium?
I think it must be oriel after all. Wait, I must be confusing that with oriole, because the bird is the word.
But an oriel doesn’t reach to the ground. That’s one of its defining features. I think it’s a tower.
I like this zombie because I haven’t thought of the word “belvedere” for years and years, after having first learned it from Escher. Any architects out there can rig up a physical one by examining these methods (the physical Belvedere model is in the middle of the page).
In any case, Comet Whatstheword is not likely to return.
I got it. I was Capt. Whatstheword in the Tower with a Thesaurus!
This thread is so old they’re probably back in style now.
zombie or no
whatever they’re called.
Zombie threadspotters! :eek:
We always called them turrets. However, I am fairly sure I have heard them referred to as merlons.
I grew up around a great many Victorian homes, and have been told that, owing to the great fire that consumed much of San Francisco in the early 20th century, there were more Victorian houses per-square-mile in Willimantic Connecticut than anywhere else on earth, owing to a huge boom in the local economy brought by the railroads at just the time such architecture was in vogue.
Most of them have been carved up internally into apartments, often in comical ways (a bathroom in what clearly was once a closet, a living room that is clearly half of a larger room, the rest of which is in the apartment next door, stairs that are narrow and steep, a bedroom that appears to have begun life as a porch). but they still stand and look lovely from the outside.
Yeah, I was hoping a notice would go to his old e-mail (if he still has it) so we could know if any of the later posted words matched his spotty memory.
Alas
Alackaday
