I once worked for an interior designer whose favorite expression was, “Simplicity is the essence of design.” I guess that’s what attracted me to this window. It’s a simple, 125 year old window on the side of historic Meeker Hardware, in Danbury, CT. The simple white shutters are fastened to the wall ready to be closed in case of a bad storm, or even a hurricane.
It’s a window that has witnessed the evolution of transportation as generations of customers loaded saddlebags, bikes, wagons, cars and pickup trucks over the course of its life. The once busy railroad station, across the street is now a railway museum, doing its best to preserve the dignity of a bygone era. Yet the simple window never changes. It just watches everything else change.
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