When you’re restoring an old house, windows and doors can present some of the biggest conundrums. As portals to your home, they help define its architectural style more than any other single detail—so it’s important that they be grounded in historical tradition. But what about the latest and greatest energy-saving features? Is it possible to have both in the same package? These three articles will help alleviate some of your concerns—whether that’s choosing the right door style for your house, figuring out how to combine era appropriateness with energy efficiency, or simply searching for the perfect shutters to top it all off.

Energy-Efficient Windows for Old Houses: Looking to cut your energy costs and perhaps score a tax credit? Plenty of period-friendly windows and doors meet the new standards, but so do interior storms.

Doors and Entrances by Design: Here’s help in finding stylistic matches for the portals fronting your old house.

Exterior Shutters and Hardware: Period reproduction shutters not only come with authentic architectural detailing and sympathetic hardware, but they’re operable, too.

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Texas Independence in Washington County: The rolling countryside of Washington County, Texas, is tranquil and pastoral. But this quiet part of the Lone Star State is also its most historic.

Stone Cottage Rehab: A diamond-in-the-rough cottage on Long Island proves a charming first house for a couple of newlywed restorers.

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• The windows and/or doors must be used to improve an existing home. This tax credit does not apply to new homes.
• The windows and doors must be “placed in service” between January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010. “Placed in service” is defined as when the property is ready and available for use.
• The structure must be the taxpayer’s primary residence.
• Garage doors must be installed into an insulated garage to qualify.

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The 1931 uncut stone house was hand-built by a New York state trooper gifted the land (in Sound Beach, a then-remote area of Long Island) as a value-added premium on a newspaper subscription.

Old-House Journal
April/May 2010

A diamond-in-the-rough cottage on Long Island proves a charming first house for a couple of newlywed restorers.

Story by Anne McCarthy Strauss
Photos by Dwayne Freeman

A stone cottage with a front door made of tree trunks and a portal for a window? It may sound like the forest dwelling shared by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but it’s actually the home of Lou and Denise Tortorelli in suburban Sound Beach, New York. The 900-square-foot house, located 65 miles east of Manhattan, was built by hand in 1931 by a New York state trooper who got the land when the New York Sun offered small plots in a then-remote area of Long Island to anyone signing up for a subscription. From first glance, the home’s whimsical nature appealed to Denise’s artistic side. “I think our house looks like something out of a fairy tale,” she says.

Stone Dreams
As a young married couple on Long Island, where real-estate prices are relatively high, Lou and Denise had accepted the fact that their first home would be a small one. “I was okay with a small house,” Denise explains. “I never imagined we would find something so incredibly unique with the sort of stone exterior I’d only seen on larger homes in elegant, affluent neighborhoods.” Adding to the home’s unique appeal is its one-of-a-kind log door, which had originally come from a clipper ship. Framed by oak trees, the door’s unusual design required creative restoration work, including heavy insulating with adhesive foam.

The charming stone exterior also needed some work. “Some of the stones had fallen off, others were cracked, and all of them were in dire need of cleaning,” explains Lou. The couple wanted to restore the luster of the stones—a combination of granite, feldspar, basalt, felsite, and pumice, a variety that gives the house a unique multi-toned, multi-textured exterior—without deflecting from their rustic, natural appearance. Cleaning the stones required careful power washing and hands-on scrubbing with nylon brushes. Denise and Lou avoided using harsh chemicals or extensive force, which could loosen or damage the stones, and they paid special attention to the original “luck brick” near the front door, a symbol of good fortune traditionally built into stone cottages.

The house’s solid, impressive log front door began life on a clipper ship, and has a cutout portal window (here partially hidden by a wreath).

The thorough cleaning made the stones’ colors pop in a palette of pretty pastels. Lou and Denise wanted to keep this natural look, so they opted not to have the exterior of their home coated with sealant, fearing it would appear artificial.

The next outdoor project was cleaning up the well-house and its now-sealed well (originally a source of water for the entire town of Sound Beach) in the front yard. Denise and Lou repaired the well-house’s rotted roof and made it a usable space by adding a picnic table nearby and filling the lawn around it with perennial plantings. The resulting landscape is inviting, and ensures that the couple will be surrounded by colorful bursts of nature when dining alfresco.

An Inside Job
Inside the house, visitors are greeted by a great room with wide plank floors, a massive stone fireplace, and a plaster ceiling with oak trees used as beams. Here, Lou and Denise have sought to bring the home into the 21st century while retaining its unique features.

The fireplace, a focal point of the great room, is made from a selection of stones from the home’s exterior. Lou and Denise cleaned it with a specially formulated no-rinse soap that leaves a light, protective film while enhancing the luster of individual stones. Again, they opted to avoid sanding or staining to maintain the same earthy appearance as the home’s façade.

Other projects beckoned, both overhead and underfoot, as both the ceiling and flooring needed work. The plaster ceiling, held together with an unusual mesh of chicken wire, was spackled and painted to remove staining that had occurred over the years. The couple also reinforced the decorative oak-branch beams, and secured or replaced the more traditional wooden ones. The wide-plank maple floors were sanded and coated with polyurethane to enhance their sheen.

The dining room’s ceiling appears good as new after spackling and painting.

“We opted to keep the existing wood paneling on the walls,” says Denise. “With a great room interior composed of wood and stone, paneling seemed the most appropriate option.” The couple scrubbed the walls repeatedly, and were pleased with the glowing hue that emerged. “As we worked, the home began to look less dismal and to show the distinct potential we’d envisioned,” says Denise.

The great room was reconfigured to include two distinct living spaces. Denise designed a full dining room area that accommodates a breakfront and a table for six. The living room, centered by the spectacular stone fireplace, became home to a full-sized couch, loveseat, and a mother-of-pearl coffee table that’s been in Denise’s family for generations.

“We used furniture that would compliment the décor and brighten it up,” says Lou. “Finding the right furnishings turned out to be less of a challenge than getting them into the house.”  Maneuvering pieces around the knots in the door jamb proved particularly difficult.

To separate the eat-in kitchen from the living and dining areas, the couple built an open-arched wall. “The original kitchen had sparse, dark cabinetry with a gigantic slop sink,” Denise explains. “It was quaint but impractical, with very little storage space and virtually no surface on which to prepare food.” The couple’s kitchen renovation project included covering a window and adding cabinets, a granite countertop, a tiled backsplash, and new appliances. Denise chose cream-colored cabinets and tiles to brighten the room.

“We’re fortunate to have a number of craftsmen among our family and friends who worked with us on projects,” Lou says. One relative installed the kitchen cabinets, another installed a new lighting fixture, and Denise painted and decorated. On a small budget, they transformed the kitchen into a bright, cheerful eatery.

When late-afternoon sun hits the stones, it highlights their variety and depth of color—yet another reason the Tortorellis appreciate their one-of-a-kind abode.

In the bedroom, Denise’s father built an unobtrusive closet that wouldn’t interfere with the old-fashioned look the couple sought to maintain. Lou and Denise added lighting fixtures with dimmers, painted the walls a soft cream color, and furnished and decorated until the formerly dank room was transformed into an inviting boudoir with a whimsical feel, in tune with the rest of the house.

With storage space at a premium, the couple installed several additional small closets and incorporated a series of beautifully crafted trunks throughout the house for both added storage and decoration.

Home Sweet Home
Denise, a true Renaissance woman whose avocations include music, writing, painting, and dance, makes a living as a marketing manager, but stays true to her creative nature by playing electric bass in a local rock band on weekends.

“Living in such a special—almost enchanted—house enhances my creative spirit because I’m surrounded by such whimsical beauty,” says Denise. “I would never find the kind of inspiration I’ve found here in a more traditional house.”

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At the Antique Rose Emporium, display gardens are oriented around a restored late-19th-century farmhouse.

Old-House Interiors
March/April 2010

By Regina Cole

The rolling countryside of Washington County, Texas, is tranquil and pastoral. The county seat, Brenham, is the only population center; Burton, Chappell Hill, and Independence are tiny communities organized around rural crossroads. But this quiet part of the Lone Star State is also its most historic.

A single monumental event took place in 1836, when 59 men gathered at Washington-on-the-Brazos and, under the direction of Sam Houston, signed a Declaration of Independence that gave birth to the Republic of Texas. Until it became the 28th state of the Union in 1846, Texas spent ten years as an independent country, a fact that has never faded from proud local memory. Today, Lone Star State lore lives in a reproduction of the original Independence Hall, where a copy of the tattered and stained Declaration is on display. Nearby is the pioneer house of Anson Jones, who came to Texas from Massachusetts in 1833. As the Republic’s last president, he retired upon annexation. Named after his home in the Berkshires, Barrington Living History Farm has a dog-trot house that’s now part of the complex.

The main house at the circa-1845 Barrington Farm is a vernacular dog-trot structure, with a center breezeway that provides ventilation and shade.

At the Burton Cotton Gin and Museum, the staff fires up the 100-year-old Bessemer engine that drives operations in the National Register-listed site. Another opportunity for a hands-on heritage experience is at Texas Ranch Life, where guests are welcome to participate in cattle roundups, cutting, roping, team penning, and other traditional cowboy activities.

The Antique Rose Emporium preserves a less vigorous but fragrant and authentic aspect of Texas history. Owner G. Michael Shoup began to collect “old” roses in the late 1970s, after he found everblooming roses surviving without apparent care at abandoned farmsteads and gravesites. These sturdy, pest-resistant varieties form the backbone of the 8-acre display garden in Brenham and a nationwide mail-order business.

Brenham's Ant Street Inn was an 1899 mercantile building, now lavishly decorated.

Lavender is the traditional counterpoint to roses; at the Chappell Hill Lavender Farm, sweet and Provence lavender thrive on 23 rolling acres. In the rustic gift shop, browse among sachets and culinary lavender. Ellison’s Greenhouses raise vast numbers of poinsettias; their Christmas display draws visitors from far and wide.

Several local wineries provide tours and tastings: the Windy Hill Winery and the Pleasant Hill Winery, both in Brenham, grow and bottle increasingly respected vintages. A very different outdoor experience awaits at the Monastery of Saint Clare Miniature Horse Farm. A community of Poor Clare nuns, 1960s refugees from Cuba, raise and sell the diminutive horses to support their spiritual work.

No tour is complete without a delicious visit to Blue Bell Creameries, where great ice cream has been made for 103 years. Sweet!

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Hardwood parquet flooring is the standard for high-style and urban Victorian houses. Photo by Edward Addeo.

Old-House Interiors
March/April 2010

The flooring you choose sets the style, period, and tone for the room.

By Patricia Poore

As always, more ideas come to us from history than from a showroom. Look at the flooring choices here—not only to see the variety of conventions, materials, and finishes available, but also to confirm the decorating importance of the floor.

Some types, such as parquet borders and wide pine, are closely associated with an era. Others are more generic (hardwood tongue-and-groove), or easily adapted to an inspired new use.

Take, for example, English geometric and encaustic tiles. These unique, lovely, and practical tiles reappeared during the 1980s Victorian Revival. Encaustics are a medieval-period tile whose manufacture was rediscovered in England during the 19th-century art movements.

Painted wood floors can be country-style or quite formal, as with this faux-marble treatment in the entry hall of the Rensselaer Nicoll House.

Besides their use in restoration today—as for Victorian brownstone entries and old city-library floors—geometrics and encaustics can be used, in an endless number of patterns, for newer houses. They’re especially handsome when paired with English Tudor or Arts & Crafts influences.

Painted floors have long been associated with early American and country houses. Their strong geometric and faux-marble effects, though, are sophisticated enough for, say, 20th-century Colonial Revival hallways.

Floors painted with trompe l’oeil effects date to colonial days but have become popular in personalized new interiors.

Wood flooring by itself offers hundreds of options, given different species of wood, reclaimed and new stock, varying widths and jointing options, inlays and parquetry, and finish types. Though you won’t find all such options at the Home Depot, suppliers are not hard to locate.

Only a face-nailed, wide-plank pine floor, without gloss, looks right in a ca. 1690 bedroom. If you are refinishing or installing a period floor, don’t overlook the importance of final finish, whether it be penetrating oil or surface varnish, high gloss, low sheen, or flat. Flooring conveys character. Wood floors are the standard for public rooms and more formal private ones, as wood suggests tradition, durability, and depth. Fancy-cut wood floors, like patterned parquet, evoke European elegance and a gilded age of decoration. Slate, stone, and tile are no-nonsense surfaces for foyer, sunroom, or bath.

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The entrance to the 1790 Pancoast-Lewis-Wharton House is enriched with a Tuscan frontispiece. A King of Prussia marble stoop and Flemish bond brickwork with glazed headers are both typical of the period.

Old-House Journal
April/May 2010

In Philadelphia’s Society Hill, urban renewal and historic revival combine to reveal architectural treasures galore.

Story and Photos by James C. Massey & Shirley Maxwell

In Philadelphia, the high land between the Delaware River and what is now Eighth Street has a storied past. In the late 1700s, a London development company called the Society of Free Traders sold building lots there, and soon Colonial- and early National-era movers and shakers lined the narrow streets with handsome houses. Thus “The Society’s Hill” came to contain one of the largest concentrations of 18th- and 19th-century houses in America, most of them the brick row houses for which Philadelphia has become famous.

By the 1970s, the neighborhood had become the setting for yet another success story—the renewal of its old buildings’ luster and its cachet as one of the city’s most coveted residential addresses. Today’s Society Hill—a near neighbor to touristy Independence National Historical Park, prestigious mixed-use Washington Square, and Philadelphia’s noisy urban core—is an intriguing architectural blend of sedate antiquity and in-your-face modernity.

Rows of compatible houses build the charm of Society Hill.

Fighting Times
In between these ups, however, were some very conspicuous downs. After the Civil War, Philadelphia’s upper crust moved out, and a myriad of less prestigious tenants moved in, including produce warehouses, slum tenements, saloons, and factories. By the 1960s, Society Hill was deemed “blighted”—fair game for massive redevelopment under Urban Renewal. The proposed revitalization project, intended partly to spruce up the area surrounding nearby Independence National Historical Park and partly to upgrade a notably rundown neighborhood, suggested demolishing hundreds of dilapidated 18th- and 19th-century buildings. These “relics,” including some of the country’s finest Georgian- and Federal-style architecture, were to be replaced by modern high-end residential and commercial new construction.

Historic preservationists, however, begged to differ with that plan. Since the late 1940s, a few dedicated souls had been buying, restoring, and fixing up old Society Hill buildings, risking life and property in the crime-ridden area. Urban Renewal gave them a rallying point and a broader audience, and they sprang into action to save the historic neighborhood. Their efforts helped pave the way for a thoughtful redevelopment-cum-preservation plan put in place by Edmund N. Bacon, Philadelphia’s legendary postwar planning czar.

Though some was indeed lost in the redevelopment, much also remains to be admired in 21st-century Society Hill. In addition to the many cherished antiquities that have been restored or rehabilitated, numerous mid-20th-century infill buildings blend fairly comfortably, if not altogether seamlessly, into the rows of 18th- and early 19th-century buildings.

The house that carpenter Thomas Nevel built for himself in 1770 has a decorated dormer window and an uncommon mutule cornice—good Georgian features.

Construction Clues
Since fire was an ever-present danger in densely built areas, most Philadelphia houses are made of brick. The various brick bonding patterns used in a building’s façade give clues to its date of construction. Decorative Flemish bond, with alternating dark glazed headers (bricks with short ends facing out) and unglazed stretchers (long sides out) with prominent mortar joints, characterize the Georgian style, while the calmer plain Flemish bond (unglazed headers and stretchers) with thinner mortar courses is typical of the Federal style. Common bond later became the norm, as it did everywhere.

Generally, 18th- and early 19th-century houses have gable roofs, although there are a few gambrels. Georgian gables tend to be steeper than Federal ones. As the decades wore on, roofs generally became flatter, and by the 1850s, completely flat roofs had come into use. A few of the earliest houses have pent eaves extending between stories on the front of the house, sheltering the walls and windows below, but these are rare after 1760.

The size and shape of dormers and the size of windows and panes also helps date buildings. Early dormers were plain, usually with shed roofs, but these also appear frequently on small houses of later periods. Georgian dormer roofs are pitched and often pedimented, with elaborately trimmed windows bearing fancy scrolled consoles at the cheeks. In the Federal period, arch-head dormers became fashionable.

Doorways in Georgian houses are often elaborate, with classical frontispieces featuring columns, pediments, and semicircular fanlights, as well as recessed doorways. Simpler houses often have plain doorways, perhaps topped by a transom. Six- and eight-panel doors are standard.

The projecting pent eave between floors and the plain doorway on the 1758 Rhoads-Barclay house are typical of earlier homes.

Georgian Highlights
Largely because of the early Quaker influence in Philadelphia, Society Hill houses tend to be somewhat restrained compared to those in cities like Boston and New York. That said, some of the earliest—and showiest—of the big houses in Society Hill are in the Georgian style. The Powel House on South Third Street, often considered the finest of its era in the city, was built in 1765 for a wealthy merchant, but it’s better known as the home of Samuel Powel, Philadelphia’s first mayor under the new republic. It is known for its elegantly restrained façade and rare side yard. From the outside, lead tracery turns the arched fanlight gracing its front door into a rayed flower of glass beneath a dignified classical entablature. Now a decorative arts museum, the house’s interior contains a dark-mahogany-paneled staircase and handsomely carved mantelpieces with classical motifs.

More subdued is the 1787 Bishop William White House, also a museum house, located on the edge of Society Hill at Third and Walnut streets. The Reverend Dr. White, chaplain of the Continental Congress, chose this handsome brick Georgian-style row house as his residence because it sits midway between the two churches he served. Other houses in the row are all in the Federal style.

Federal Characteristics
Perhaps the easiest way to differentiate between Georgian- and Federal-style houses is to take stock of their visual weightiness. Comparatively speaking, Federal houses usually seem lighter, taller, and less bold than Georgian ones. The Hill-Physick-Keith House (1786) on South Fourth Street offers a low-hipped roof, flat string-courses of stone at the second and third floors, and an impressive entrance with delicate tracery in its arching fanlight and sidelights.

Unlike most Philadelphia houses, which are party-wall row houses, the Hill-Physick-Keith House is a freestanding mansion with a restored side garden. Now a museum, it provides visitors a glimpse of Federal-style furniture in an appropriate setting.

Probably the neighborhood's finest Federal house, the Hill-Physick-Keith House features a distinctive entry with an elaborate fanlight.

Greek Revival Features
Often called America’s first national style, the Greek Revival is well represented in Society Hill. Girard Row, located in the 300 block of Spruce Street, is a set of five row houses built as an investment in the Greek Revival style in 1833 by Philadelphia financier Stephen Girard. Distinguished by high, marble-faced basements and first stories, with elaborate cast-iron railings beside the marble steps, they remain a handsome intact grouping. The identical Winder Houses on Third Street (1844; architect Thomas U. Walter) have remarkable cast-iron balconies at the second floor, one featuring griffins; the other, lions.

Of course, not all houses of note in Society Hill are mansions or even upper-middle-class residences. There are still plenty of small, working men’s two-story houses mixed in with the three- and four-story dwellings of wealthy merchants and gentry. The 1770 home of master carpenter Thomas Nevel on Fourth Street is a good example—one of many buildings grand and small worth visiting on any tour of Society Hill.

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