Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Rudimental to Re-muddle to Replication

The former Hotel Windham in Bellows Falls, Vermont was built to replace three previous hotels that had burned.  Old House Journal coined the word “remuddle” and nowhere is it more appropriate than on this project recently completed by The Woodstone Company.




  The classic fenestration was built in the 1930's and lasted until the era of remuddeling, the 1950's,



 when this beautiful facade was replaced with …. this...



At some point, even the remuddleing was remuddled, when this old wooden door was installed, probably after someone salvaged part of the aluminum storefront.








A restoration opportunity...

Using elements of the original windows and old photographs, the new windows were created and installed...




Here is the facade as it appears today...

Retail space is now available at: The Windham