Reconstructing Historic Stone Walls
June 13-14, 2015 |
Reconstructing Historic Stone Walls is a 2 day intensive hands-on masonry conservation class. The participants in this field school will learn how to document, dismantle and then reconstruct a late 18th century stone retaining wall using traditional mortars and building practices. The finer points of stone cutting will also be discussed and practiced durring class.
Instructor: John Wastrom, MA, Boston Univ. John has been the resident mason at the Wentworth Gardner House for over 20 years and has been a masonry conservation instructor at the Preservation Education Institute, Windsor, VT, since 1988.
The class will run both days, 6/13-6/14, from 9 am to 3 pm. Fee is $200 and lunch is provided both days.
For more information call or email Sandie Dika, VP, Wentworth Lear Historic Houses, 603-426-9282
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| Location Information |
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Wentworth Gardner & Tobias Lear Historic Houses |
50 Mechanic Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801 |
| Website:
www.wentworthgardnerandlear.org/directions |
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| Contact Information |
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Sandie Dika |
| Email:
sdika@kw.com |
| Phone:
603-426-9282 or 603-610-8527 |
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