Replacing old windows with old style windows.

One section of my house was built in 1697 as a Quaker meeting house. The next section was built 100 years later. I built on to it in 2005. 
The house was restored and modernized in the early-mid 70's under the watchful eye of the Maryland Historic Society. 
The windows were replaced at that time with very old school single pane, true divided light, double hung units. These are to a stock standard size for those times, I'm sure. 
Several of the windows are getting soft and rather than spend the next several years repairing them, I thought I would look at replacing. 
My local millwork shop will do it, at $1,900 a window. 
My question...does anyone know a good source for an old fashioned unit like mine?

My wife absolutely will not go for anything short of true divided glass single pane. And I would also like the  old section of the house to look more period correct. 
 

At $1900 a window I feel like you could get your own mill, cut your own custom knives, mill your own windows, and come out ahead. Depending on how many windows you're doing of course!

Sadly I don't have any supplier recommendations though. Sounds like an amazing house. 

I have those in my 1894 house, some 7ft. tall.  It looks like a slab of wood can be run through a table saw to generate the correct recesses and assembled into a window, but I'm no carpenter. 

You may want to google for local home salvage places, guys that take old homes apart and save all this stuff from the scrap heap.

I don't know why I expected this, but I'm still disappointed. 
 

In reply to dculberson :

Well, I have done a lot of woodworking and help run a woodworking company (guitars) but this is something I would need to really learn, and I would not like to take a couple of years on this. And I struggle with lower tolerance woodworking. It's a problem. But....I may end up making my own if I don't find someone out there. 

914Driver said:

I have those in my 1894 house, some 7ft. tall.  It looks like a slab of wood can be run through a table saw to generate the correct recesses and assembled into a window, but I'm no carpenter. 

You may want to google for local home salvage places, guys that take old homes apart and save all this stuff from the scrap heap.

There is a good Architectural salvage warehouse in Baltimore but I feel I would potentially be trading one problem for another...and i need 7 matching windows. Might be worth a day to look though. Good suggestion. 

jh36 said:

In reply to dculberson :

Well, I have done a lot of woodworking and help run a woodworking company (guitars) 

More info on this? 

In reply to jh36 :

I’m up in MA, we have a millwork company called Brockway Smith.  Www.brosco.com  Take a look at their book of designs, they show “true divided light” window units, if you have a large order they may ship to Maryland.  

You and I are in the same boat. Check out wood window maker on Youtube. I've started to figure it out myself, and there's a learning curve, but at $1,900 a pop, its probably worth it to learn.

In reply to mtn :

PRS guitars on the eastern shore of Maryland. 36 years and counting!

11GTCS said:

In reply to jh36 :

I’m up in MA, we have a millwork company called Brockway Smith.  Www.brosco.com  Take a look at their book of designs, they show “true divided light” window units, if you have a large order they may ship to Maryland.  

Awesome!  Thank you. I bought louvered shutter doors from a company in upstate NY...maybe this will do the trick. Thanks for the lead!!

NBraun said:

You and I are in the same boat. Check out wood window maker on Youtube. I've started to figure it out myself, and there's a learning curve, but at $1,900 a pop, its probably worth it to learn.

If I strike out sourcing, I will head that way. Time is a bit precious right now so honestly hoping to not have to go there. Atypical of me. 

mtn said:

I don't know why I expected this, but I'm still disappointed. 
 

Definitely  not in a Quaker meeting house :)

Jh36 I live in a little Quaker village in Virginia that's home to a restorer of buildings like yours and may be a source: http://cochransstonemasonry.com/

 

Jh36 I live in a little Quaker village in Virginia that's home to a restorer of buildings like yours and may be a source: http://cochransstonemasonry.com/

That's awesome...thank you!  I will check them out for sure!