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Save Our Heritage |
Protecting the Birthplace of the American Revolution, the cradle of the Environmental Movement, and the Home of the American Literary Renaissance |
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Save Our Heritage |
Protecting the Birthplace of the American Revolution, the cradle of the Environmental Movement, and the Home of the American Literary Renaissance |
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2011 - Windows, Clapboards, Plaster, and Paint |
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| Carl Close of Hammersmith Studios in Concord working on Barrett door latch. Jan 2011. | Working the latch detail. |
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Joe fabricating a window cap. |
Mark Tiernan upgrading the temporary electrical service. Also added power to the second floor for temporary shop work |
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Brian and Jake installing window caps and claps. |
Jim is cleaning the glazing putty for all of the 65 window sashes (527 panes of "old" style glass) |
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| All of the window sash is now installed in the front of the house (Jan 20). | |
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| All of the clapboard and window sash is now installed in the back of the house (Feb 20). | |
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Jake finishing up West Ell clapboarding (March) |
Joe adding bed moulding to east side window. Clapboards now being installed on east side and east ell. |
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| West ell clapboards now installed (March 18) | North side of house (mid-May) |
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Mike installing lath around window (May) |
An interior plaster wall bulge needed to be fixed via exterior access. Clapboards, sheathing, and noggin were in the way. |
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| Prof David Dempsey and interns Maddy, Molly, and Maggie (all from Smith College) archiving wallpaper | Original plaster is conserved (reattached to lath) by special adhesives and then holding in place (July) |
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Bridget scraping ceiling in preparation for calcimine application |
Reattachment is followed by scraping, then hole filling and coatings. |
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| Mike plastering lath around window. | Maggie washing hallway ceiling |
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| Maddie, Bridget, and Maggie on lunch break | Maggie and Molly reattaching plaster to old lath |
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Mike putting last coat of plaster around muster room window |
Dyan, Mike, and John Vaughn - more paint and plaster analysis was done to help with the correct type and color of finishes |
| Molly's blog on paint and plaster. | |
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| Peter Kimball and Randy Burns of Richmond Clapboards delivered the West ell floor boards (Aug 13) | West ell ready for laying down of original sub-floor, new wide flooring, and then plaster conservation (Aug). |
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| "Dutchmen" patches on Muster room summer beam (Sep) | West ell plaster stabilization (Oct 2011) |
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| Muster room posters - The Supplies, The British Reports and Orders, and the Chain(s) of Command (Sep 2011) | Parlor posters and plaster restoration in progress (during open house in Sep 2011) |
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| Exploring the kitchen fireplace (Sep 2011) | Trees outside house window (Oct 2011) |
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| Rick and Richard pulling up floor over hearth area to prep Muster Room fireplace for repairs (Nov 2011) | Parlor chamber fireplace after being repaired - hearth reset and cleaned (Nov 2011) |
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| West Ell room with plaster conserved and parts of the kitchen walls and doors being stored (Nov 2011) | West Ell rear room still needing sub-floor structure needing upgrade (Nov 2011) |
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The back yard from the rear of the house (Nov 2011) |
Richard Irons, fireplace mason, relaxing on the demonstration timber
framing log (Nov 2011) |
| Mike cleaning the walls in the bedroom next to the kitchen (Nov 2011) | "P Barrett" is cut into a board that was part of the roof sheathing. |
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| East chamber with woodwork, plaster walls, and floor conserved (Nov 2011) | Faux cedar knot on woodwork in the East chamber (Nov 2011). This used to be covered by flaking lead paint. |
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| Muster Room fireplace bake oven was further opened up now showing a shelf and slot for door (Nov 2011) | Under the Muster Room fireplace, in the basement (Nov 2011) |
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| Muster Room fireplace with relaid hearth (Dec 2011) | Santa Richard Irons, our mason, arrives. Still a bit more to go. |
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