What do you call this...

[Jerry Simon]

What is the name for this cone-like roof structure? Thanks much.

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[Brad Manor]

Looks like a shingled cupola, but theres probably a proper name for it.

-Brad

[fqp25]

What does the rest of the building look like?

[Jim Katen]

Originally posted by Jerry Simon

What is the name for this cone-like roof structure? Thanks much.

That's a really strange bit of ornament. Why is it there? It looks like it blew off of the neighbor's house and landed there.

I wouldn't call it a cupola because there are no openings. Cupolas usually have openings for light or ventilation.

I'd almost call it a pinnacle, but pinnacles are usually set on towers, not over flat roofs.

How about teepee?

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Bain]

What's inside it--on top of that flat roof?

[kurt]

It's not a cupola. Everyone I associate w/calls them turrets.

Most of the time, they are located @ a corner of the building, and there is usually a sidewall "tower" ornament running down the corner. On commercial buildings of the time, the entrance was very often @ the corner of the building, under the turret tower.

Kibbel will know what the right term is.

[hausdok]

Hi,

Any chance that's a victorian that's had a new facade wrapped completely around the original turret?

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Bill Kibbel]

Faceted conical roof - topped with a finial.

It probably belongs on the building. Like many Queen Annes squeezed onto urban lots, there might be a projection on the facade below that roof that gives the appearance of a turret or tower.

This is a pinnacle:

[chicago]

So it is all ornament and just sitting,or is it somehow attached to the flat roof.?