Cleveland Cottage Door
Seth Hinshaw, 4/23/2019
Over the weekend I happened to see an example of a phase one cottage door of the Cleveland variety. Although the Cleveland doors were common at the end of the nineteenth century, they were mostly removed and replaced in the twentieth century. The door is shown on page 91 of my book A Field Guide to American Residential Doors.
The Cleveland cottage door was produced from 1888 to 1900. It was the version of the cottage door that was marketed to Democrats of the time, as opposed to the Grant and Garfield doors that were marketed to Republicans. Doors with large plate glass windows over the lock rail first appeared in millwork catalogs in 1888. The Cleveland door featured a delicate frame around the window that featured a rounded, centered merlon with a floral motif at the top, horizontal scoring along the lock rail, and a decorative panel below that featured a fortified border and a pressed wood floral motif in the field.
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10/6/2019 History of Hinkle & Company (1833-1870)
9/17/2019 History of Mulliner Box & Planing Company
6/3/2019 J.R. Quigley Plant, Gloucester City, New Jersey
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4/10/2019 Trenton Doors #1
3/6/2019 Pressed Wood Door Knobs
2/23/2019 Gettysburg Doorscape, Part 4
2/18/2019 Gettysburg Doorscape, Part 3
2/12/2019 Gettysburg Doorscape, Part 2
2/9/2019 An Introduction to the Gettysburg Doorscape
1/22/2019 The Blake Latch
1/19/2019 Rare Four-Panel Door of 1890s
1/5/2019 Cast Iron Rim Locks
12/28/2018 Inaugural Blog Post