A Past Perspective on Current Events and an Update on Floor Coverings
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Henny Hemsley’s Fight for Freedom. Tariffs and Trade. Mail Delivery in the Early Republic. An Update on Floor Coverings.
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Rest Assured: Bedchambers at Cloverfields Reimagined. Also, it is Harvest Time. Examining Changing Agricultural Practices, 1705-2025.
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Cloverfields continues its transition to an eighteenth-century home with the addition of period-appropriate furniture and textiles, including bedsteads and floor coverings. A look at changing agricultural practices, 1705-2025.
Read MoreRecreating a 1784 Terraced Garden: Historical Landscaping at Cloverfields
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Recreating a 1784 Terraced Garden: Historical Landscaping at Cloverfields.
Kimmel Studio Architects and McHale Landscaping collaborate on an impressive and challenging task: restoring the terraced gardens at Cloverfields. Planting nearly 700 boxwoods in December of 2020, the team transforms the barren winter space into an architectural and historical feat brimming with green. With research gathered from archaeological discoveries, ground-penetrating radar, and period writings, the Cloverfields restoration team establishes a garden that no one knew existed just below the surface.
Read MoreCloverfields as of March 2021: The Main House 1705 Dormer Restoration
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Restoring 1705 Dormers on the Main House
In this newsletter, Matt Culp, a carpenter at Lynbrook of Annapolis, restores the dormers on the front of the house using a 17th Century roofing style and original hardware. A dormer is a type of roof window that projects beyond the roof plane, often used to increase the usable space in a loft or attic and to add light.
Read MoreCloverfields as of February 2021: Recreating and Installing a Seventeenth-Century Door
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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.
Read MoreThe 1769 Ashlar Stucco Wall Discovery at Cloverfields
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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.
Read MoreCloverfields as of August 2020: An Extraordinary Find In The Eighteenth-Century Roof
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Learn about how the eighteenth-century roofers working at Cloverfields “swept the valley” and “combed the ridge” of the shingles they installed—and about how sometimes they did not, and instead, they used very thin shingles. These slender shingles and the way they were manipulated and installed constitute, according to historian Willie Graham, an “extraordinary find.”
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