This is the front of the building I am referring to. It is known as the Marlin Opera House Block and was constructed 1883-1884. The taller building houses an opera house which closed in 1902. It is actually featured on Wikipedia (that's where the photo came from)!
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookville,_Pennsylvania
I made it very clear that the contractors MUST contact me before destroying or throwing away the old wooden wavy glass windows. Fast forward a couple of months to yesterday when I got an email around lunch time saying the windows were coming out RIGHT NOW and I had to pick them up THAT NIGHT. So I enlisted the help of my mom and her Jeep and we went to pick up the windows. They managed to get the sashes out without inflicting any major damage, except for cracking one of the panes. Unfortunately they cut the thick old sash ropes and left the weights inside the pockets when they prepared to install the replacement windows.
Here's an early morning pic I snapped of the sashes on my way to work this morning (upper on the right and lower on the left) safe and sound at my house.
And here's something that will make you cringe... the hideous vinyl replacements (lowest level). Not only are they ugly, but they didn't even match them to the ugly vinyl replacements on the floor above.
The landlord told my former co-workers that they would eventually be replacing ALL of the remaining windows in the rear of the block. I passed on my contact information so I hope they contact me before sending the windows to the landfill. There was also talk of replacing the doors as well.
What am *I* going to do with these huge old windows, you may ask? I'm going to stash them away until 10+ years from now when I'm ready to replace all the replacement windows in my house. Then I'll have them disassembled and the glass and usable wood will be re-used to build proper windows for my house.
