Modern Windows
Like earlier architectural styles, windows are important in defining modern, mid-century house types – from ranch houses to split levels. The sizes, types, arrangements, and materials of windows during this period were largely experimental and often mass produced. Oversized plate-glass fixed windows, clerestory, and the "picture window" are just some of the innovations.
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Modern windows can be made more energy efficient by caulking around the masonry openings, adding weather stripping, and installing storm windows (interior and/or exterior).
Irregular and oversized fixed plate-glass windows.
A picture window with fixed plate glass at the center and operable jalousie windows flanking at each end.
A distinctive stained glass wall on a ranch house.
Angular clerestory windows.
Curved glass blocks.
Do you love your older and historic windows? Share that love with the world by uploading pictures to our special photo group on Flickr.
