Turret addition

Classic shingle style turret detail | Michael McKinley Architect

Custom library built into the turret at 86 Dexter Street, Malden.

If you’ve ever driven around an older neighborhood filled with Victorian-style homes and wondered what those rounded rooms that extend from the corners of the buildings are called, you’re not alone. Many Victorians and castle-style homes include a turret room — a circular, rectangular or octagonal room that protrudes from a building, typically on a corner, but it can also protrude from a wall.

Greenspring Valley, Maryland, is a national historic district in Baltimore County characterized by vintage buildings and park-like swathes of land.

In the last few weeks we’ve published a few projects where architects have come up with inventive ways of getting around restrictive planning requirements. Here’s a roundup of the most popular buildings we've featured on Dezeen where disguises, moving walls and even skis have been employed to skirt around these obligations. 1. at the top of

Architect Arthur C. Hanlon reinterprets classic Shingle style in this refreshing shoreline home.

An amazing Victorian house - I think this was somewhere near the Haight or Alamo Square areas of San Francisco, California. - but can't remember exactly. Beautiful building either way. (1 of 2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_architecture

Vintage Victorian turret tower #ReclaimedArchitecture https://www.facebook.com/ReclaimedArchitecture