Historic District Commission approves Town House Café window replacements 4-0

Historic District Commission · Meeting of August 12, 2026

Wayland Historic District Commission approves Town House Café window replacements after late-arriving quorum. On a 4-0 vote Tuesday, the commission issued a certificate of applicability allowing all 22 windows at 21 Cochituate Road to be replaced with Pella double-hung units, with seven-eighths-inch applied simulated divided lights on the front facade and first-floor sides and grille-between-glass on the second-floor sides. Applicant Kirsten said dropping applied muntins on the second-floor sides saves roughly $12,000 to $15,000, or about $1,000 per window.

Vice Chair Margery F. Baston pushed a condition that the final building white "match the muntins, since the muntins are a predetermined white that Pella does." Member Seema Mysore joined mid-hearing from an overnight flight from Johannesburg to provide the fourth vote. Chair Greg Dale said a separate window filing at 34 Bow Road, submitted August 11 as a non-applicability, will instead go to a full public hearing.

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Source: the Historic District Commission meeting of August 12, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.