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Providence Preservation Society
Providence Preservation Society 24 Meeting Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903 This work-immersion programs pays un/under employed Rhode Islanders to learn essential skills in the preservation and building trades. If that...
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Yestermorrow Design/Build School
Yestermorrow Design/Build School 7865 Main Street Waitsfield, Vermont 05673 Yestermorrow Design/Build School teaches hands-on courses in design, construction, woodworking, and architectural craft. Our intensive, hands-on courses are taught by top...
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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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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.
Preservation
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.
