Excavating Windows

I'm back to renovating our local food co-op's new location. It's a former bank building, erected in the mid-1920s, and in recent decades it has been an Evangelical church. We are in the process of tearing away every sort of wallboard, platform, and flooring so as to regain as much space and old, decorative detail as possible.

These windows look out from a 2nd floor (in the US that means one level above the street) meeting room onto the main ground-floor room. In the banking days this was how the managers would watch the clientele and the tellers go about their business. But during preaching and gospel-singing times, the windows were very thoroughly screwed and nailed shut, and then walled in. I have freed up the windows, opened them, cleaned them, and prepared them for the eight glass panes that need to be replaced. Next, the glass goes in, I'll do some woodworking underneath, and finally the windows will be primed and painted in the dark green trim color that you see adjacent in the room.

Our co-op will be the best and most beautiful co-op in the land!