The mansard roof is marked by steeply hipped pyramidal towers with pressed-tin cresting. Often, lightning rods were integrated into the cresting, as pinnacles. The mansard roof ridge was frequently topped with a decorative iron trim, known as "cresting". An arrow is usually crested on a lathe-like tool called a cresting machine. After cresting Sherwin Summit, the highway travels along the west shore of Crowley Lake. While cresting a ridge, two tank platoons from either division confronted each other at . Decorative metalwork is also employed, as finals, as a cresting and as balustrades. A simply decorated tower has between floor cordons decorated by cresting with a geometric motif. The roof is in slate with a cresting of red tiles. The San Saba River flooded, cresting at . The Colorado River flooded in 1932, cresting at . The highway reaches the state line before cresting the pass. Deep Creek at Spuds reached a record height, cresting at . In 1938, Brady Creek flooded, cresting at . The iron cresting is restored as are the red tin tiles over the bay windows.