A Kitchen for an Antique by Patricia Poore – Early Homes, Spring-Summer 2015

photographs by Paul Rocheleau An Eccentric Plan Resulted in a Workable and Beautiful Space. OVER THE PAST 27 YEARS, Janet and Jim Laverdiere have, with the help of restoration experts, restored nine homes of their own while raising a family. Jim was running his manufacturing business (Kleenline Corp.), but there was always [...]

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Yale’s Skinner-Trowbridge House by Gladys Montgomery Jones – Early American Life, February 2002

Estimate the number of historic buildings demolished each year because American communities can't figure out how to use them, and you would—conservatively—reach a number in the hundreds. Internationally, the number is much greater. "Unlike a picture or a statue, a building must continue to justify itself on more than artistic grounds," wrote Constance Greiff [...]

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A Tale of Two Doors by Gordon Bock – Old-House Journal, January-February 2000

Photographs by John Crispin Making Period Doors From Plank to Paint When Richard Pieper began restoring his vernacular farmhouse, he knew he would be re-creating parts lost over two centuries of architectural changes. Erected in a rural valley east of Albany, New York, around 1790, the house was slowly losing key structural members in [...]

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A Twentieth-Century Saltbox by Jeanmarie Andrews – Early American Homes, August 1997

Always intrigued by eighteenth-century architecture, Mark Harbold designed a New England saltbox house as a mechanical drafting project when he was a senior in high school. Twenty-two years later he and his wife, Lorraine, built it. It looks like a Connecticut original, down to the weathered brown paint and faded red door and window [...]

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Eyes on the Yard by Derek H. Trelstad – Building Renovation, Summer 1994

Completed in early January 1993, Weld Hall looks now as it did when it was originally built in 1870. Brick and sandstone were cleaned and fire escapes were removed, replaced by fire code compliant interior stairs. The new wood sash installed as part of a comprehensive dormitory improvement program at Harvard University feature [...]

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