That’s a picture of a secondary entrance to a large ornate building constructed around 1900. The exterior door is at the left and I’m facing the thickness of the stone wall. The modern partition on the right is gypsum board on metal stud, with a stained acoustical-tile ceiling above.
I’ve been staring at this photo on and off for a week now, trying to figure out what that indentation is. The one cut into the stone at the top of the door opening, at the inside face of the wall.
This one:
It’s not accidental and it’s not sloppy. The most likely explanation I can think of is that it’s where a door was mounted: either the interior door of a vestibule (with the outer door where the current door is) or where the exterior door used to be before it was moved to its current location. I lean towards the second explanation, since a vestibule that is only the thickness of the wall deep is ridiculous and this is a generally well-designed and unridiculous building.
It doesn’t matter. I don’t need this information for my work there, and the people who own the building would have no idea what I was talking about if I brought up the topic. I just want to know and never will, which is a fairly common outcome regarding minor questions that come top during building investigation.
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