While I was taking this picture, a passerby stopped and told me that this house was at the center of a family dispute. While the family spent decades sorting out their differences, a great old house was slowly decaying into the ground.
When this photo was taken in 1999, the paint was almost entirely gone from the wood siding and millwork.
Since then, a local preservation organization has acquired the home and is in the process of restoring it.
The window is a double-hung. The vertical bars dividing each sash into two panes of glass are known as muntin bars and are sometimes mistakenly called "mutton" bars.
The components of the exterior trim around the window are, from top to bottom, crown moulding, dentil moulding (from the same root word as "dental"), head casing, parting bead (separating the head casing from the side casing), the side casing, and the sill (which is actually part of the window frame.)
The two pieces under each end of the sill are corbels. The narrow moulding between them is an apron or counter trim.
Ash Creek Images
Photographs of the West by Doug Gorsline
Victorian Window in an Abandoned Home, Cambria, California
