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Collection |
Sites and Structures Reports |
Archive Number |
HPTSSR43 |
Title |
Sites and Structures Report GDH, June 30, 2020 |
Description |
Work Progress during this 2d quarter period: interior plastering and woodwork joinery continued intermittently as weather, planning details, coordination between crafts, and Pandemic restrictions permitted. Our carpenters Tom & Chris Lainhoff continued to fabricate parlor elements such as wainscot paneling under windows [see Image #12], and best parlor wainscot paneling, built-in corner cabinetry, and molded millwork such as chair rail, cornices, perimeter-architraves, and baseboards, designed and detailed based on surviving fragmentary "templates" as noted in previous reports. Re-creation of the pent roof across the 1765 façade will commence and progress in the coming months. Carpentry and plasterwork progressed through the quarter under revised pandemic restrictions, requiring that only one craftsman work in the house on any day and mandating face-covering and required sanitary measures in work-spaces. Parlor plasterwork: Efforts continue to preserve consolidated and well-anchored original 1765 plaster in its un-coated state; severely degraded early plaster has been re-laminated to original stable lath after restoration or replacement of missing or unstable lath sub-strate; reasonably intact plaster was recoated with a scratch coat and a finish coat formulated from 18th century plaster elements; stable and substantially intact plaster with stubborn particulate or other residue, such as soot or wallpaper adhesives, will be cleaned as thoroughly as possible with water, and eventually lime-washed with several coatings to achieve uniform coverage. Equally important among preservation imperatives is to stabilize and consolidate detached or insecure plaster ranges. Stable and in-plane original wall plaster will remain un-coated. The photos in this record illustrate the work accomplished in the 2d quarter and work-in-progress: Image #1, Photo 54, 4/17/20: chipped "keys" in base plaster providing anchorage for finish plaster application; replaced lath and chair rail on adjacent partition wall in back parlor; Image #2, Photo 3, 4/27/20: re-purposed hand-split lath on reconstructed "blind" partition between best and back parlors; Image #3, Photo 19, 4/27/20: Partially restored, leveled, and washer-anchored ceiling plaster in back parlor; "chopped" plaster areas are old keys for subsequent coating; Image #4, Photo 36, 5/22/20: "Scratch" coat scribed to ceiling cornice on back parlor partition wall; Image #5, Photo 15, 5/28/20: re-fabricated corner cupboard fitted to surviving original woodwork in back parlor; Image # 6, Photo3, 5/28/20: New and preserved plaster on back parlor ceiling, anchored and re-lathed where necessary; Image #7, Photo 1, 5/28/20: sample plaster patches (left of corner) applied to parlor walls to select closest color & texture match to original finish-coat plaster; Image #8, Photo 12, 5/22/20: Segment of re-fabricated back-parlor corner cupboard interior with remnants of original plaster on stone back-walls with early red-ochre paint, which will be preserved and exhibited; remaining stone sub-strate will be re-plastered [Image #9, photo 15, 5/8/20. Image #10, Photo 21, 5/8/20: fully lathed replicated partition wall in back parlor; Image #11, Photo 8, 5/22/20: partition in back parlor, with scratch coats above chailr rail and covering wainscot range; Image #12, Photo 6, 5/28/20: Replicated wainscot ("kick") apron panel under northern back window in back parlor. Laurence Ward, January 2021 |
Date |
June 30, 2020 |
Object Name |
Report |
Catalog Number |
1008.01.088 |
Search Terms |
Wainscot paneling woodwork plasterwork lime wash Plaster keys scratch coat Sample plaster HPTSSR sites and structures |