ARCHITECTURE: ORIGINAL DOOR DETAILING

The majority of old apartment buildings in the city have metal doors on them so it is always interesting to run into buildings that have kept some of the original wood details in place.  A prewar residential building on Edgecombe shown above is quite unique nowadays since it still has the antique transom section at the entrance but the lower doors have been replaced in a less interesting fashion over the decades.  We have seen higher end buildings downtown keep their wood doors or duplicate old ones with new replications and maybe one day the trend will be more popular uptown.