Home at 2 Collins Avenue Friday August 7, 2015 in Troy, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union) Second Empire architecture is a lesson in perspective, a reminder that what we now look upon as ...

The round windows located in the mansard roof are oculus or oeil-de-boeuf (bull’s eye) dormer windows. This Design Intervention column is contributed by Gregory J. Scott, FAIA, a local architect with ...

Even if you’ve never heard the phrase “Second Empire architecture,” you’ve seen it – on the iconic “Psycho” house, the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World and every creepy ceramic Halloween house ...

The image of impoverished writers, starving for their art and living in garrets, predated the era of Paris as a city of garrets tucked under mansard roofs. Garrets were attic living spaces — hot in ...

Until the latest remodeling, McDonald’s worldwide used a red, double mansard roof, which sports two slopes on all four sides. Now the chain is making allowances for architectural preferences by area.

Victorian architecture spanned the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901. During her sovereignty, seven styles of architecture were prevalent; Second Empire, Italianate, Stick Eastlake, ...