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Yes it should move. The key lifts it up so the tab is lifted out of the notch in the bolt bar, as the key engages with and moves the bolt bar in or out.
I think that's a Carpenter lock.
Casey

Hi,
Very handsome house. It has Queen Anne/late Victorian massing with classical revival detailing (columns, Palladian window, sweeping railings, Keystone arch window); The paired columns indicate they were informed by the Beaux Arts style too.
Casey

Maybe it was used for Roman shades, awnings, or a clothesline?
Casey

If I were sitting on the HDC I would have these questions. Can you supply documentation that there was a newel on the stair originally? Can you demonstrate that stair rails were commonly used on single steps in your neighborhood? Is the scale and design of the newel post you propose in keeping with ...

The rail/track for sliding pocket door(s).
Casey

Now that you showed us the flare-out at the foundation, I'm 90%+ convinced that is shingle style. Queen Anne style started in England, the Red House being the first recognized example. It was built of brick, but the massing is easily recognizable as what we would create 25 years later in the Shingle...

The pic you posted is ostensibly a craftsman style house of the teens or 1920's. The 4 over 1 window sash were from that era as well. It's not unusual for earlier structures to be added on to, or completely subsumed into a newer building. If the farm had a couple of good years in a row, a lot of the...

Hi, Different siding materials is very appropriate in the Queen Anne style, and to an extent, shingle style. In shingle, the first floor could be stonework, in part or in whole, w/shingles above. So if yours has the same clapboard and decorative shingle work, it is more of a Queen Anne kind of style...

Free Classic/Queen Anne/Shingle.
The arched buttresses and boxed/arched gable are very shingle-style. The neoclassical millwork fits into that mold. But unless the siding comes off and shingles are revealed, it could have been sided w/clapboards, putting into a QA classicism style.
Casey

Not possible without pictures.
Casey