Every original door knob in our house is ornate. Here are some of the styles we have. At some point later on, likely in the 20s they added a few extra doors and some of those have ornate locks, and some had plain ones.
The front door inside:
Front door exterior:
The two side doors on either ends of the porch have the same escutcheons and knobs as the front door, however they appear to have the knobs on the other way around (inside knob, on the outside etc)
The is the style we have on the downstairs interior doors:
The upstairs rooms all have porcelain knobs with this beautiful C20 rimlock.
Oddly enough, the room they added on in 1923 on the back of the house has Victorian C20 rimlocks, one with an ornate iron knob not found anywhere else
One upstairs bedroom closet has this plain rimlock with a C20 keep. It is the wrong door because it won't close all the way, however I haven't yet measured to figure out which door actually belongs there.
Then there's this door to a partition between 2 rooms that has a different plain rimlock, again with a C20 keep.
Strangely enough, the other side of this same door has the escutcheon of a mortise lock!?
The knob and escutcheon for the basement door (I really hate the painted woodwork, I am in the process of stripping it all to be stained again)
Side view of the ornate mortise lock
The BRANFORD lock examined:
Serial/model ? 1459 ½
2 upstairs rooms have latches in addition to the rimlocks:
An egg and dart knob escutcheon and knob found on the added on doors from the 1920s. If you pay close attention you can see the key hole was never cut out of the wood for this door!
Pocket door escutcheons
Here's some interior pics I took when we first moved in while the house was still completely empty! This post is very pic-heavy! Enjoy!
The living room
The upstairs master bedroom has a similar window & room shape as the living room (the blinds don't show the top part of the window design which is symmetrical to the bottom of it)
The foyer
Stairs and landing
Parlor room
Upstairs hall
Foyer with stairs and front door
Pocket doors, we have 3 sets.
They still have the curtain bar from what I'm told those are usually gone
Dining room with plate rail over the door frames
Some odd random things in the cabinet when we moved in, including a telephone from 1948
Our cast iron fireplace grate - our fireplace and mantle is all original and unmodified and we plan to keep it this way
Inside, it may be hard to tell but it says "THE MONARCH" when I searched this online, I found that the design was Patentend July 19 1892
Design on our front door (the little missing piece of the wreath was found in the closet under the stairs, we just have never got around to gluing it back on yet, and we want to use the correct glue)
A mechanical doorbell
Full shot of front door
The knob and escutcheon with double skeleton key locks
Inside the mortise lock it has those push buttons which allow you to lock the door so that the knob won't turn from the outside, only the inside.
The north part of the parlor
Pocket door escutcheon
The inside of one of the doorbells (I took the back plate off for the photo)
