Any chance this was a typo for glazier decorations (or decorative glazing)?
Mark
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From: Lawrence Kestenbaum <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, December 30, 1999 6:53 PM
Subject: Upper sash with single central pane edged by smaller panes


>On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>I don't know about "glacier decorations", but I had been meaning to raise
>the issue of the type of window you just described.
>
>Upper sash with nine panes -- of which the middle is by far the largest,
>and the corner panes are about 2 inches square -- are seen in mid-1920s
>houses here in the Midwest, typically houses just a bit fancier than
>average in terms of exterior decor.
>
>Growing up in a neighborhood of houses, I wished there was a term for this
>kind of window, as seen in the domestic architecture of the 1920s.  Only a
>few years ago, I discovered the contemporary term for them, from building
>magazines and such: they were called "Queen Anne windows."
>
>Unfortunately that term is loaded with too many other connotations to be
>used in this context.  I'm hoping that your "glacier" turns out to refer
>to this pattern -- I suppose the central pane would be the "glacier".
>
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>Lawrence Kestenbaum, [log in to unmask]
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