Historic Window Restoration

The Shelburne Museum is a forty-five-acre campus, with a collection of thirty-nine historic buildings; homesteads, barns, a lighthouse, an inn, a schoolhouse, a steamboat, and more. Collected from across New England and New York, each building was relocated to the Museum for the purpose of restoration and preservation. Today, each building requires a particular level of routine restoration— some in more need than others. As the museum’s collection was started in 1947, a common issue found today in many of the buildings is their weathered and worn-out windows. While most windows were replaced during the relocation of historic buildings in the mid-to-late twentieth century, many have since been properly restored only once or twice.