SPRINGFIELD – Christopher Albrecht spent the last year bringing 120-year-old windows back to their original glory. He restored a fleur de lis and shamrock in stained glass and made unusual discoveries.

“All the glass is a quarter-inch thick. I think it helped with sound proofing,” said Albrecht, owner of Chris’ Carpentry, of Woodstock, Connecticut. “In one office I fund two panes (sandwiched) together in an office probably used for psychiatry to deaden the sound.”

Typically, window glass is 1/8 th to 1/16 th inch thick, so the original windows were extraordinary, he said.

The job was one of many done to restore the Kilroy House, located on the grounds of Springfield Museums. The year-long project also repaired and restored the building’s terracotta roof, fixed the stucco siding and

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