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My apartment, which is in a Brooklyn tenement built in 1910, scores high on function but low on form. Pretty much all of the historical details have been stripped over time: the solid wood doors replaced with hollow ones, the crown molding jettisoned, the tin ceiling scrapped. (I know all this because whoever did the demolition didn't do a great job.) But there's a stained glass window in our bathroom door that gives us a view to the past. It's a rather nondescript pattern but the when light is streaming into the room the colors are vibrant and spread into the hallway, making a rainbow visible when you enter the apartment. The window is cracked in the corner and patched up expertly with duct tape, so it's a reminder not only that someone once did care what our place looked like, but also that since the place was built, other people with clumsy hands like us have lived here as well. Both the colors and the sense of history (not to mention the fact that nothing else about our apartment itself would qualify) make this window beautiful.