rumblethorpe, Upsala, The Highlands and Port Royal House. At
Waynesborough in Easttown Township, Chester County, this division is
considerably below the middle, making the upper section much the larger.
Less common are blinds divided into three sections by two lock rails,
such as those of the Perot-Morris house. The Evans house, Number 322 De
Lancy Street, has two-section blinds on the third story and
three-section blinds on the second story. Unusual indeed are blinds
having only top and bottom rails. They are found now and then on small
upper windows, as at Glen Fern. Chalkley Hall in Frankford is a rare
instance of such blinds on all three stories of a large countryseat.

All of these blinds are of heavy construction, having top and lock rails
about the same width as the stiles, and bottom rails about double width.
Except for heavy louvers instead of panels, they are much like shutters.
The frame is of the same thickness, with mortise and tenon joints
doweled together.

A picturesque feature of Philadelphia window treatment is the quaint
wrought-iron fixtures with which shutters and blinds are hung and
fastened. As clearly shown by the accompanying detail photograph of a
window of the Morris house, outside shutters are generally hung by means
of hinges to the frame of the window. As these frames are set back in
the reveal of the masonry, these hinges are necessarily of special
shape, being of large projection to enable the shutters to fold back
against the face of the wall. They were strap hinges tapering slightly
in width, corresponding in length to the width of the shutter and
fastened to it by means of two or three bolts. Small pendant rings on
the inside of the meeting stiles were provided for pulling the shutters
together and closing them. They were fastened together by a long
wrought-iron strap, usually bolted to the left-hand shutter, that
projects to overlap the opposite shutter five or six inches when the
shutters are closed. Near the projecting end of the strap a pin at right
angles to it sticks through a hole in an escutcheon plate in the lock
rail of the opposite shutter, and an iron pin, suspended by a short
length of chain to prevent loss, is inserted through a vertical drilling
in the pin. Later, sliding bolts were used, as seen on the shutters at
Number 128 Race Street and the blinds at Number 6105 Germantown Avenue,
Germantown.

Shutters and blinds were held back against the face of the wall in an