The complex restoration of Cloverfields’ seventeenth-century cellar door required collaboration across four disciplines: architectural history, blacksmithing, carpentry, and millworking. Architectural historian Willie Graham, blacksmith Peter Ross, carpenter Matt Culp (Lynbrook of Annapolis), and millwork specialist Jack (Jack O’Beales Custom Millworks) combined their expertise to construct a functional, period-specific door for the Cloverfields cellar.

Preservation specialists are now working on the final details of the Cloverfields restoration, including finishes and paint. And they keep making some very interesting discoveries. A few months ago, the painters were working on the 1769 paint layer, when they noticed that the stucco had been scored to make it look like ashlar.