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Subject:
1883 window term: "glacier decorations"
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BP - "Is this the list with all the ivy haters?"
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:35:53 EST
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(Cross-posted to SAH, P-L, and KenFollett.com)

The American magazine "Building" (May 1883) reports on some Queen Anne style
houses at 154th and St. Nicholas (designed by James Stroud) and reports that,
among other things, "there will be ornamental sashes with glacier
decorations".

The few surviving original windows (at 411-423 West 154th) are the usual
multi-light sash, no different than other I have seen - plain lower sash,
upper sash bordered by 2" panes surrounding a single central pane.

Is any subscriber familar with the term "glacier decorations"?

Christopher Gray
Office for Metropolitan History
246 West 80th Street, #8, NYC  10024
212-799-0520  fax -0542
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