DOORS & ENTERANCES
Early story-and-a-half cottages have simple doors usually with four panels and no windows. See Drawing 13 and photo 18. These doors are painted and have simple trim and details. Door knobs, locks, and hinges are usually very plain.

Italianate architecture highlights doors as important architectural features; some houses in this style have double doors. Typically, doors and trim are painted. Most doors have windows, some with beveled or leaded glass in decorative patterns. In keeping with the ornate character of Italianate architecture, door hardware is often large and decorative.

Rather than focusing on doors, Queen Anne buildings emphasize overall composition as well as dormers, turrets, chimneys, brickwork, and siding patterns. Usually up to four feet wide, these doors have large single panes of glass. With low-profile molding and trim, they are as likely to be painted, stained or varnished. Door hardware is generally low-key. For commercial buildings, the main entrance doors are natural focal points. Often they are wider than residential doors, and they usually have full-height glass. Other doors to upper floors or back rooms are very plain, without windows or sidelights, having only rectangular transoms to light the interior.

ENTRANCES
As their architecture dictates, early story-and-a-half cottages have simple entrances. Typically they are about three by seven feet without transoms or sidelights. The exceptions have transoms, or sidelights, or both. Any cottage sidelights and transoms are simple rectangular panes of glass with minimal detailing.

Italianate entrances are more ornate and detailed than earlier buildings; many have painted wood trim. As shown in photo 16, most Italianate entrances have transoms. Some entrances also have sidelights; a number of the transoms and a few of the sidelights are clear leaded glass. Stained glass was rarely used for either.

Even though some Queen Anne buildings are more heavily embellished overall than Italianate houses, most have subdued, less decorative entrances. Generally they are simple rectangular openings with modest trim; sidelights are not common, although transoms are. Stained and leaded glass were infrequently used. The entrances of commercial buildings follow the same stylistic patterns as residences. Most draw attention to the main store entrance door. For a further description, see the Storefronts section.

Recommendations
1. Preserve and maintain any older or original door and entrance features that survive. If elements must be replaced due to deterioration, replace them in kind - matching materials, details, and finish as closely as possible.

2. Use plain rectangular panes of clear glass with a simple muntin profile, where appropriate. Avoid using stained or leaded glass in transoms, sidelights, or door windows, unless physical, pictorial, or written evidence shows that these materials were actually used.

3. Replace broken door glass with plain clear glass and avoid multiple- or diamond-paned, "Coke bottle," or bullseye glass in doors. While some doors (especially from the 1880s on) had beveled or leaded glass in decorative patterns, most doors with windows had plain, clear-glass windows. If you are adding windows to a paneled door, try to place the windows in the upper half of the door, within the panel spaces. Avoid cutting out a larger space in the door to accommodate a larger window.

4. Consider painting entrance doors rather than staining and varnishing. Stained and varnished doors should be avoided in early story-and-a-half cottages, and in the simpler Italianate houses, duplexes, and rowhouses.

5. Avoid heavily carved, ornate doors on simple buildings such as the early cottages, the plainer Italianate structures, and the Queen Anne and later buildings as well. Heavily ornamented doors were fairly unusual in the Village, and use of these doors introduces an inappropriate amount of ornamentation. The same is true of large ornamental hardware such as door knobs, locks, and hinges.

6. When storm doors are installed, they must be of simple design, preferably in wood and with a full-height glass section that permits full view of the main door. Appropriate storm doors are illustrated in Drawing 14 . Decorative features such as stick-on "strap" hinges, scalloped edges around window openings, and "crossbuck" panels must be avoided.

7. If an entrance will no longer be used, avoid removing the door and filling in the opening. Leave the door in place and fix it shut. A small sign or some plant materials can be used to indicate that another door is to be used. Always make such alteration work as reversible as possible so that doorways can be used again in the future with minimal work.

8. Heavy, ornate metal security grille doors are not approvable. Acceptable security doors must have the appearance of ordinary storm doors.

9. Residential doors must not be used on commercial buildings, unless it can be shown that residential doors were originally used.