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.
Oriels—framed in wood, stone, or masonry—were defining features of Gothic Revival and Tudor-style structures. A close relative of the bay window, oriels project from upper-story walls, where they are cantilevered or supported by brackets or corbels.
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