At the turn of the 20th century, leaded glass windows in common homes was typical; however, these weren’t the architect designed windows that were widely published at the time, but designs chosen from catalogs that were printed by the various glass manufacturers of the day. Several years ago, on a trip to Chicago to photograph the work of George Washington Maher, I came across a catalog window in Maher’s E. W. Hedrick House of 1914 in Kenilworth, Illinois. What’s odd is that the house is filled with original leaded glass designed by Maher’s firm (or by the firm who made the windows – more on that later!). Why did they decide to go with something unrelated for these interior doors? My guess is that either the doors were added later or they simply loved this design. I’ve included the original illustration from my 1909 National Ornamental Glass Manufacturers Catalog.