Whether you call it a transom window or a transom light, what I’m referring to is the window above a door that’s separated by a crosspiece called a transom. For the purpose of this blog post, I’m choosing to call it a transom light. It’s a small tribute to the sun rays this little baby is going to let into the food hub.
In rehabbing 902 N Mangum’s exterior, we’ve focused on revealing and reviving the building’s vintage charm. In the early stages of construction this meant major demo of aluminum siding that hid – and luckily preserved – the vintage stucco exterior. In the middle it was removing the various cursory “plugs” that had replaced, well, basically all glass. In these later stages it means putting that glass back where it belongs…
And we mean that literally with the transom light you see here. Rather than a new pane, carpenter Scott Taylor preserved the original glass seen in this 1950’s photo. Taylor has taken great care in the preservation of historic features and details at every opportunity since construction began back in September.