Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Doors of Paper. [ARTICLE]

Doors of Paper.

“Feel the weight of that door,” said a New York builder to a reporter, who was looking at an unfinished apartment house up town. The reporter prepared to lift what seemed a polished mahogany door, but it proved too light for any wood. “It is made of paper,” said the builder, “and, while it costs about the same as wood, is much better, because there is no shrinking, swelling, cracking, or warping. It is composed of two thick boards, stamped and molded into panels and glued together with glue and potash, and then rolled through heavy rollers. It is first covered with a waterproof coating, and is painted and varnished and hung in the ordinary way. Few persons can detect that they are not made of wood, particularly when used as sliding doors.”