Wednesday, October 12, 2011
☞ ARCHITECTURE: More Mount Morris Muntins
The panel windows divided by muntins on historic windows are often the first to not be replaced on an old building so discovering them intact always becomes a good find. One can see at the top photo of 240 Lenox that the corner building at 122nd Street which recently sold has quite a few of them intact. There appears to be two styles common in this part of Harlem which includes the double hung sash windows with the top sash divided evenly by the wood muntins. The lower photos shows an example of the townhouses on the sides streets just east of Lenox whose panels are more engineered around the border of the top windows. A few examples of these windows still exist in greater Harlem but the historic districts are the main neighborhoods that would have have them mostly intact.
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Thanks, I always wondered what those were called?
ReplyDeleteGreat story, very informative.
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