The 1880’s saw the introduction of many new styles of shutter hardware, for the first time much of it based on earlier historic patterns.  Much of the hardware currently seen on historic buildings was produced and installed in that timeframe.  Our Southern cities are rich in hardware of this genre –  perhaps replacements for earlier hardware stripped and used to make cannons and such during the Civil War.

The sesquicentennial (150 years - 1932) celebration held again in Philadelphia was a technologic bust, but turned patriotic and spurred nationwide interest in Colonial architecture.  Much of the new construction in the following decades incorporated Colonial elements.  Shutters and their hardware are a hallmark of the style.