The dormer windows project like eyebrows from sloping roofs. The brackets look like shoulders propping up projecting parts of buildings from roofs to porches and balconies. Eaves are the shadowy undersides of overhanging roofs beginning where the roof meets the building walls. Asymmetrical means the building is different on both sides. Towers are buildings on the roof. Thirty percent of these homes have one. This style is from France. Exhibitions in Paris in 1855 and 1867 helped to popularize this style in England and then it spread to the United States. For this reason the style became popular for the remodeling of earlier buildings as well as for new construction. The Second Empire style was used for many public buildings in America during the Grant administration (1868-77).