Back in the day, they didn't use hollow core doors. These are all solid, thick, and large - meaning they are all heavy. Several, including the one pictured, are heavy enough that they've pulled the hinge screws out of the door frame. This one in particular is really heavy. Not only is it thick, but it is the door between the foyer and the back hall. It is mirrored on one side so it has the added weight of all that glass.
Obviously this has happened before - the screws in the hinge plate don't match the hinge. At some point, you can't just keep using larger diameter screws to try to fix this. I picked up some quarter-inch hardwood dowel, removed a hinge, used a quarter-inch drill to ream out each hole, cut a piece of dowel to length, and glued it into each hole with wood glue. I let it dry overnight and replaced the hinge using appropriate screws long enough to reach the jack stud. This door also had screws pulling out of the door itself so the door side of each hinge received the same treatment. I then did the same with the next hinge. It took three days, but was only about an hour of work in total.
It worked well and I no longer have to worry about a 100 pound door falling off the hinges onto a kid.
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