Doors
Mac Ward continues to hang doors on the second floor. In the photos above he is trimming the edge of one of the doors prior to installation. The metal guide helps to ensure the circular saw stays straight through the entire length of the cut.
Gene Lyman continues to install door hinges and locks. Gene has also installed the pine threshold for the doorway that leads out to the Colonnade deck. Physical evidence for this very wide (15”) threshold was found on the surviving Madison-era flooring.
Keith Forrey continues to install the doors in the cellar. In the photos he is installing a wrought-iron “H-L” hinge on the door to a closet in the 1797 cellar.
A latch-lock was also installed on the eastern door in M-109 (South Passage). This spring-loaded lock is something of an intermediate step between the more common Norfolk latches and the more complex rim locks. The odd handles, called stirrups or axe-head handles, are based on multiple examples found on surviving locks or archaeologically. While these handles look unusual when compared to modern knobs, they were actually very common in the 18th and early-19th centuries.
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Exterior
Blaise Gaston and Paul Pyzyana are installing the North Wing’s eastern stoop and stair
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