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.
This clapboard farmhouse's pointed-arch gable window matches its steeply pitched roofline, decorative bargeboards, and are all identifying characteristics of Gothic Revival architecture. Though the Gothic Revival began in England—where medieval details were celebrated in masonry—it found a distinctive voice of its own in rural America, where mid-19th-century carpenters created countless renditions of this romantic style in wood.
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