Historic Preservation

Before milling machines became common in the 19th Century, hand tools were used to make wood look smooth and flat.  Gauged Flooring ...

Why do these floorboards on two sides of a zig zag line look so different? One side of the line has all ...

Today we talk about a tiny treasure, the penny-round, or penny tile.  Penny-rounds became popular around 1900 as Victorian homes added them ...

No matter what the age, size or style of a building, masonry work can be essential to proper restoration. These two terms, ...

The Dictionary of Building Preservation, written by our own Ward Bucher, defines them as a set of drawings that accurately record an ...

At the Preservation Maryland Phoenix Rising event, my guest Rick Brown asked me if I had considered writing an Appendix to the ...