While I was taking this picture in 1999, a passerby stopped and told me that this house was at the center of a longstanding family dispute. While the family spent decades sorting out their differences, a great old house was slowly decaying into the ground.
When I took this photo, the house had been vacant except for transients for 28 years. The paint was almost entirely gone from the wood siding and millwork. The family dispute was settled that year, and in 2001, the Cambria Historical Society acquired the property and began the long and expensive 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 or "mullions".
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.
