Transom Window
If you’ve ever spotted a small window atop a door, you’ve seen a transom window. While some are purely decorative, others can serve a specific purpose inside a home. Transom windows may be small but they can help brighten up the entranceway to your house, especially if your place isn’t oriented toward the sun.
Transom windows are typically rectangular-shaped windows that are added to homes above a door frame. Some are operable, meaning they can be opened and closed, while others are fixed.
These windows first became popular in the mid-to-late 1800s. This was before the dawn of air conditioning when opening windows was one of few options to keep homes cool.
When the second Industrial Revolution was sweeping America, we began building a lot of row house developments for workers. Because they were long and narrow by design, the windows were placed at the front and back of each home. As a result, the doorways throughout the home had transom windows to permit air to travel throughout.
That included not just exterior doors but interior doors as well, as the transom window could help keep air flowing even in rooms where the doors were closed in the middle of the house.
Thanks to air conditioning, especially central air, the need for transom windows on new constructions is limited. Today, original transom windows are often found in older homes that homeowners have chosen to preserve. However, this look can also be found in new constructions or renovated rooms where the owners are looking to bring in as much natural light as they can. Most modern transom windows don’t open at all; they’re just meant to be decorative.
Some transom windows—especially those in antique and historic homes—are made from stained glass. Others might have individual panes lined up side by side, while others (like the ones seen above) can be a solid piece of glass that stretches the entire width of the window section.
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