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Boston Building Resources 100 Terrace Stree Boston Massachusetts 02120 The Re-use Center now open for business! Do you have a home preservation or restoration project in mind? Boston Building Resources...
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Sanborn Mills Farm 7097 Sanborn Road Loudon, New Hampshire 03307 Sanborn Mills Farm is a working farm with a mission to sustain and teach traditional farming and craft skills while...
Marketplace
Window hardware, with the latch in particular, is a prime example of this oversight: it is an apparently innocuous detail, yet consider that latches are situated at eye-level in almost every building.
Homeownership
Recent news reports suggest first-time home buyers may be entering the real estate market in greater numbers. One banking industry newsletter noted that 2018 witnessed the largest jump in first-time home buyers since the Great Recession. While perhaps too early to be a trend, the inventory of “starter homes” in the market seems to be increasing while prices may be moderating, bringing home ownership within reach of more buyers, at least in some areas of the country.
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Architecture
Hospitality at the Quaker Tavern InnPreservation
The Damon Tavern celebrates Rufus Porter Murals
“Look down the road and you see people endlessly coming and going. Stand a moment and watch them. Where are they going? Why are they traveling? What do they carry?...
Preservation
A Name for a Scrollwork Artist…
The March 2018 CPWP Plaster Bits posed a question for our readers, as to who the artist was who painted free hand decoration in the Ashford House in Ashford, CT. We thank Brian Ehrlich for his research and for sharing a possible artist’s name.The name of Noah Graves is proposed, since similar work also has been attributed to his hand. As is often the case, without a solid, signed example, scholars take clues from circumstances and visual images to arrive at an attribution.
Architecture
Curb Appeal: What Came Before and the Happy Diversion of Curb-Side Sleuthing an Old House’s History
Dan Cooper is a well-known author, and has published over a thousand articles on the subjects of antiques, architecture, preservation and historic interior design. His first book, New Classic American Houses, was published by The Vendome Press. Dan is also President and CEO of Cooper Lace, has designed and sold historic lace curtains for twenty four years, providing them to private homes, museums and film sets. Dan is also recognized as a leading authority on the subject of historic carpeting.
Preservation
The Painted Wall: Freehand Scrollwork
The Governor Galusha Homestead in Shaftsbury Center, VT is an amazing survival of original freehand brushwork. Jonas Galusha (1752-1834) served as a captain in the Vermont militia in the Revolutionary...
