The most interesting windows in American architecture showed up in the decades after the Civil War, when architecture veered away from the Classical and toward ornate details and a nostalgia for medieval- and gothic-influenced early-American house styles.
A narrow lattice window (left), a pivoting "porthole" (middle), and a half-round window (far right) pierce one's home's thick masonry walls, letting needed light into a potentially dark interior.
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