I went up to the house to check on it this past weekend.  One of the neighbors had told me that the French door that I had recently replaced was not the original, but rather had been installed by the previous owner. She went on to say: "He put that on there some time ago."  I think the original front door was a pair of beautiful arched  doors."    Then she tells me that the original doors were down in the garage for the the longest time.  "They may still be there , you should take a look."

So, I head down to the garage, and look through the window. Sure enough, there leaning against the back wall of the garage are a pair of white arched doors.  I ran back up to the house and look at the front door frame:  sure enough you can see the outline of the original arched door frame.  It had been boxed in with some filler boards and a rectangular jamb had been installed to accommodate the 36" X 80" french door that I had just replaced last month.

edit:  I blew up the photo of the front door which was installed last month, and you can see the outline of the original arched door frame.

Of course I didn't have my camera with me to take a photo of the actual doors, but they look very similar to this:

It kinda matches the arch above the 3rd floor window :

I'm up in the air about what to do.  Stick with the nice solid rectangular door or try to return it to original.

Looking through the photos of the house I realized I had a before and after  of the small upstairs bedroom, with a very similar camera viewpoint.

What a job it was doing the clean-out on this house back in July! With the heat we began just throwing the trash out the 2nd floor windows rather than going up and down the stairs.

Our reward was discovering how good the hardwood floors were up there.

Here's the before & after: