On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Michael Houser wrote:

> Dear Lawrence:
>
> The window you are describing really is a typical Craftsman style windows.
> It can be found on hundreds of Craftsman Bungalow homes throughout the
> United States.  In fact, here in Bend, Oregon they were used quite often.  I
> have never here the term "glacier" applied to such a design.  I can tell you
> that the term "Queen Anne window"  refers to a similar design, but of course
> wrong time frame and the big difference... Queen Anne windows often have
> stained glass in the small outer squares.

Right, that's the kind of connotation that I said would interfere here.

The type of window that I'm speaking of has *no* stained glass, and only
nine panes, was indeed widely used in the 1920s, and it is THIS window
which (in a 1927 building magazine whose title I'm sorry not to have
handy, and some other catalog, I'm just full of unsourced material
tonight, sorry) was called a "Queen Anne" window, with no quotes in the
original.

You can't use the term for the clear-glass 1920s window unless you put
aside the image of the turreted turn-of-the-century Queen Anne house out
of your mind -- not easy to do -- which is why a better term is needed.

The type of 1920s house I most often see them on, here in Michigan, is not
Craftsman in the classic sense, but rather has a mix of simple Colonial
Revival or Shingle Style elements, often with contrasting siding types and
a gambrel roof.

It sounds like I should scan some pictures!

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The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com