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Jane Griswold Radocchia: Learning from a Workshop
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. Monday, July 27, 2015. Learning from a Workshop. The IPN Workshops at the Shelburne Farms Coach Barn were superb. The barn is magnificent. To be able to be in and around it for 4 days was true luxury. Above left is the main entrance from the court yard. Right is the dormer for the hay loft door above the stable. Below is half of one barn door showing its hinges and brick work. The food was plentiful and excellent - local and fresh. Here is what worked best:. A few people wer...
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Jane Griswold Radocchia: Geometry for the Cobb-Hepburn House, Part 1
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Geometry for the Cobb-Hepburn House, Part 1. When does geometry enter into the design and construction of a building? Only when the basics are answered can layout and design begin, can geometry be considered. The design of any building begins with need, ‘What? 8217; and ‘Why? Next comes, ’How big? 8217;, ‘Where? Then, ‘What material? 8217;, ‘What will it look like? Sometimes they just begin with ‘Bigger than this! The house would be framed of wood o...
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Jane Griswold Radocchia: A barn built in the 1830's
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. Monday, February 9, 2015. A barn built in the 1830's. Green Mountain Timber Frames http:/ www.greenmountaintimberframes.com/ measured this barn before they dismantled it to use its frame anew. Due to the wood used - poplar, beech, hemlock - the layout and the construction we think this barn was built by a farmer without an extensive background in framing. We think it dates to the 1830's. The floor was dirt, the head room under the hay loft not quite 6 ft. He could have start...
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Jane Griswold Radocchia: The Cobb-Hepburn House frame , Tinmouth, VT
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. Monday, June 8, 2015. The Cobb-Hepburn House frame , Tinmouth, VT. Here is the Cobb-Hepburn House coming down. Glenn Tarbell recorded its dimensions as he and his crew dismantled the frame this past winter. I drew the framing diagrams. My measured drawings of the house before de-construction served as a reference. The drawings tell a lot about how the house evolved. The house is 28'-6" wide by 39'-0" long, 2 bays (3 bents) wide and 3 bays (4 bents) long. John Mead Howells, A...
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Jane Griswold Radocchia: Geometry of the Cobb-Hepburn House, an aside for skeptics
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. Friday, July 10, 2015. Geometry of the Cobb-Hepburn House, an aside for skeptics. For previous posts on this house please read. Http:/ www.jgrarchitect.com/2015/02/baring-bones-of-house.html. Http:/ www.jgrarchitect.com/2015/06/the-cobb-hepburn-house-frame-tinmouth-vt.html. Http:/ www.jgrarchitect.com/2015/06/geometry-for-cobb-hepburn-house-part-1.html. Here is the basic geometric shape used for the Cobb-Hepburn House. Sheathing was commonly used for diagrams. Is the T Square.
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Jane Griswold Radocchia: Museums, Historical Societies and Organizations of Interest
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. Museums, Historical Societies and Organizations of Interest. Dorset VT Historic Society. Route 30 at Kent Hill Road. The Fund for North Bennington. North Bennington, VT. Boston, MA 02114. Historic Park McCullough House. North Bennington, VT. 214 Justin Morrill Memorial Highway. Lorenzo State Historic Site. Granville, NY 12832. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Museums, Historical Societies and Organizations of Interest. Green Mountain Timber Frames. Why didnt this get passed down?
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Jane Griswold Radocchia: Baring the bones of a house
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Baring the bones of a house. The Cobb- Hepburn House is coming down. Luckily it will be saved and reused. I was there to measure and record. The house suited its site. It was "built to the weather". Set on a foothill ridge with fields sloping off on all sides, it had good drainage all around. The family had died out; the land sold to the farmer who lives next door. His daughter didn't want to live in the house. I don't blame her. I was there to r...
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Jane Griswold Radocchia: About Me
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Passing By" Newspaper Column. A New England resident for most of my life, I am an 'old house' architect. I have worked with over 1200 old houses and their owners over the past 40 years. I have received numerous historic preservation awards for my designs. I now live in Bennington, VT. My portfolio needs to be reorganized. My website is partially complete. If you want to ask a question please add a note under a blog post of mine that you like. I will see it and respond. My column on local vernacular archi...
