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A Penny-Round for Your Thoughts
Today we talk about a tiny treasure, the penny-round, or penny tile. Penny-rounds became popular around 1900 as Victorian homes added them ...
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Pointing & Repointing in Historic Restoration
No matter what the age, size or style of a building, masonry work can be essential to proper restoration. These two terms, ...
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What is a Measured Drawing? Why Does it Matter?
The Dictionary of Building Preservation, written by our own Ward Bucher, defines them as a set of drawings that accurately record an ...
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The Baltimore Paint Job
At the Preservation Maryland Phoenix Rising event, my guest Rick Brown asked me if I had considered writing an Appendix to the ...
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Opening a Business in a Historic Building
Owner Ajay Patel, Montgomery County Executive Marc Erlich and Lead Architect Ward Bucher at the grand opening of Clarksburg Beer and Wine ...
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Open Door: The Gilded Age of Hawley-Hutzler
Some say the Gilded Age extended from the end of the War Between the States (aka US Civil War) to the beginning ...