Historic Replacement Solutions

Customized for Rehabilitation, Adaptive Reuse, and Replacement

Over many years, Marvin has built a unique reputation for complex historic window and door projects. For generations, we’ve partnered with architects, facilities managers, and general contractors to solve residential and commercial preservation and restoration challenges. We offer the customization, design flexibility, and profile and hardware options required in projects like these, and we back it up with a world-class technical and support team to provide the products that once seemed irreplaceable.

Comprehensive Knowledge

Historic projects are a Marvin specialty, and our experience helps streamline the entire window and door process. Marvin teams are there to support your product and design decisions across the preservation spectrum, including residential spaces, university campuses, government buildings, places of worship, storefronts, and many more.

Genuine Partnership

Rely on Marvin for clear guidance throughout the layered approval process. Together, we’ll work through every aspect of the project, reviewing products and options, navigating historic guidelines, and discussing window specifications with historic commissions.

Premium Service + Support at
Every Stage of Your Project

Assessment + Discovery

Gain a full understanding of the project’s window and opening conditions with the help of Marvin field reviews

Early in the process, before product specification, Marvin can build and provide samples and prototypes that ensure you know the look, style, and feel of the products you choose for your project

Get real-world examples and case studies of past projects to reinforce your architectural vision or spark new solutions

Vision + Inspiration

Conduct brainstorming sessions with your Marvin Architectural Project Manager (APM), including product drawing presentations

Review your required window and door performance standards and budget options

Discuss multiple product options to help inform your final decisions

Discussion + Selection

Review overlays of our solutions superimposed over existing conditions, showing where Marvin products match or differs from the existing units, as required by National Park Service for projects getting historic tax credits

Be confident with templates/worksheets that document the status of every opening — we will measure each individually, even in buildings with over 100 windows, to ensure complete accuracy

Get valuable support when presenting window recommendations to historic review boards — Marvin will provide any required drawings or samples and act as a consultant for your project specifications

Turn to your APM for help writing or reviewing your specification, and for help with preliminary pricing or involving a dealer to provide an actual quote

Details + Drawings

Receive full-size mock-ups and additional samples to demonstrate the actual products and how the solutions interact within the existing openings

Dealers will provide shop drawings to show what's being ordered is exactly what you specified

Training + Installation

Marvin can assist with installation, conduct on-site training, and bring groups to our headquarters for training and to tour the Warroad manufacturing plant

When approved, Marvin provides additional services to keep the project on track, bringing the retailer into the process, providing additional samples and mock-ups, arranging a specific delivery cadence/staging of materials, and more

Marvin Historic Products

Authenticity + Performance

Achieve the dual project goals of architectural authenticity and high-level performance with the help of Marvin historic products and services. Our historically correct details combine with premium engineering to achieve your preservation standards, including NFRC-rated energy performance to meet today’s code requirements.