Looking for tall narrow deciduous tree

I am looking for a tree for the inside corner of a house. This Corner is maybe 15 ft. deep and gets sun from noon on (southwest). I like the shape and size of the Bradford Pear but have read so many threads here @ DG's dis'ing it I want something else. This house is old and the windows from the living room are 10-12 ft from the ground. Free advice welcome.

How about a fastigiate hornbeam? Or Kwanzan cherry? Some acer rubrum cultivars are selected for fairly fastigiate growth pattern, but I can't recall their names.

thank you. I have emailed myself pix & info re: the hornbeam. the data re: Kwanza life span 20 yrs.

How about Prunus serrulata Amanogawa with clear pink blooms and tightly columnar form http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/71987/

I bought a columnar Parrotia persica this year. It looks promising for your application too:

http://www.forestfarm.com/product.php?id=3221

The Parrotia persica, per the forest farm link, get 15 ft tall max. I will have to measure the height of the dining room windows from the ground. It is a fabulous looking tree.

I got the gallon. It looks good...if I can will take a pic. I needed something fairly close to a fenceline and have always wanted to try P.persica but didn't have room right now for another full sizes tree.

Sweetgum? Nice fall colors and it comes in the form you want or at least someone on DG had a columnar sweetgum growing in big pots outside his front door. I can't seem to find it right now but I will look for it.

Bradford are short lived because they are simply weak and you will lose a large limb once it gets big. One limb gone and it will look bad. It is a nice fast growing tree but it doesn't hold up well over time.

Look this site over and see if you like anything. http://pendulousplants.com/

Found the sweetgum. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/120891/

I'll kick this one in too. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/80062/

My parottia is taller than 15ft already ... about 10 yrs old.
So I suspect mature height is taller.

There are some cultivars of Parrotia that stay shorter. The one that FF claims grows to 15 ft is a particular cultivar 'Vanessa'. I suspect yours is either the straight species or a different cultivar if it's taller than that.

Thank you, I will start looking @ those links et al now.

I have an Anise...It's beautiful but you didn't want an evergreen which it is. The sweetgum is a big tree...it also suckers. The color in autumn is great but I wouldn't want it close to the house. One of my favorite small trees is the native American smoke tree Cotinus obovatus. Easy to grow, too!

I like the smoke tree, too. I will look "anise" up.

Chinese anise is the 3rd link provided above. Mine is a Florida anise. I will try to post some pics next week. The smoke tree thrives in poor soil which is one thing I like about it. And let's face it...home foundations aren't usually that fertile!

When I wrote I wanted a deciduous tree I was wrong; I do not want a fir tree. But that Anise tree, assuming it could get to 20-25 ft. would work.

Here is the smoke tree; it's still small. It is as pretty in the fall as any pic of parrotia that I have seen. It can be trained to a single trunk or left as a multi-trunked small tree:

Here is the Florida Anise. It is a pretty tree too; evergreen as opposed to deciduous. My books tell me that it needs rich loamy moist soil which would argue against its use next to a house (at least at my house!) Also, all parts are poisonous if ingested.

The pic shows the tree at its best. These blooms last a few weeks; at times mine is yellowish green rather than this pretty color. If I were in your situation I might choose the Anise in a rich moist area away from the house (which is what I have done). Just a thought.

Many of the Serviceberries, especially Amelanchier laevis and Amelanchier x grandiflora cultivars, develop narrow crowns. They all flower spectacularly in the spring and most develop really nice fall color as well.

Where is the 'crown' in a tree?