by gwffoundation | Feb 13, 2017 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
The timber framing of the Washington house is complete. In this video, we get a close-up view of the construction of the house’s timber frame. For a timelapse view of the timber framing, watch this video. To see how the beams in the frame were fashioned, watch...
by gwffoundation | Feb 10, 2017 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
This past autumn, workers from Peter Post Restorations lead by Peter himself added the shingles to the roof of the Washington house at Ferry Farm. The handmade riven shingles were sawn from a tree trunk, smoothed on one side, and decoratively scalloped. Because they...
by gwffoundation | Feb 6, 2017 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
In this video, we see how stonemasons Ray Cannetti, Robert Hall, and Kevin Nieto laid the handmade Aquia sandstone foundation stones around and on top of the Washington house’s concrete cradle foundation, which protects original architectural remains...
by gwffoundation | Dec 7, 2016 | Building George's House, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
In June, we visited Blue Ridge Timberwrights in Christiansburg, Virginia. We saw skilled craftsmen fashioning the timbers for the Washington house frame and talked with Sandy Bennett, president of Blue Ridge Timberwights. Learn more about the Washington House here and...
by gwffoundation | Dec 1, 2016 | Building George's House, Lives & Legacies
Brickmasons Ray Cannetti, Robert Hall, and Kevin Nieto recently finished building one of three chimneys for the Washington house at George Washington’s Ferry Farm. Located on the house’s east side and made from hand moulded brick by the Old Carolina Brick...
