Thank you. Belvedere is a more appropriate than cupola? And either of these could constitute and later be called a garret?

I don't know. Garrets are dark attic rooms I thought.

I'm hoping darkness isn't mandatory and the word garret is flexible enough to apply to any attic room, and that the the upper portion of this house could be considered an attic.

Though obviously I'm trying to go off more than my hope as well.

I think a cupola is primarily for admitting light and air. A belvedere is a place to take in a nice view.

the porn room - not a joke, there's a house here from the 70's with a turret better executed than that, and it's all red velvet inside, shelves filled with porn vhs.....a friend told me.

I...I've been in such a place before. I mean, a friend of mine has.

I don't think the house looks very well maintained and I understand where these jokes are coming from.

I may have toured that house, JLC. Or perhaps there are more than one. I stayed in the guest house and was invited in by the owner. Very interesting. I remember the color was more of a coral velvet than red.

it is not a joke, it only reminded me of that house, this one

My bad because you even said not a joke before I called it a joke. Just porn and crack aren't related to my curiosity about this place is what I'm finding humorous and appreciating.

I like that instead of a cock, there is a golfer on top of the weather-vane.

Thank you. It's in St. Anne's Hill Historic District in Dayton Ohio. Most of the houses are within Second Empire is what I've read. You nailed the time period.

Then those can be called cupolas as well I read here on Wikipedia. What exactly a cupola is I feel uncertain about, in addition to a belvedere. Widow's watch is a great name and a great idea, if this had a banister I'd be open to calling it a widow's watch. Although I might learn that a banister isn't a requirement for a widow's watch. It may be that the top of this house isn't certainly one thing, but I'd like to call it the best thing to call it.

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I'm calling it a turret with canted bay windows. I don't think it's both a turret and a belvedere or cupola. I'm not sure how to describe the top, the roof.

If it was open with a railing it would be a widow's walk.

Above is a classic widow's watch, sometimes referred to in Connecticut as a widows walk. A cupola would not have a stair leading to the roof/look out. sometimes the widows's watch would have a narrow walkway along the ridge of the roof with an ornate balustrade. The example posted would not be a widows walk/watch because it is below the highest ridge of the roof.

When you address us as 'Dear Experts On This Subject', how could we refuse? Now you have to tell us the story behind your name.

The proof is in the pudding my friend.

The question relates, of course, to how you'd market the room. What you'd think of calling the room when you imagined someone living in it. I think the space of this room and the possibility of it as a bedroom is questionable. Not to mention a clear stigma against the word garret, related to a clear stigma against the idea of art and poor people, and really way off track in terms of everything.