Late Victorian Period Archives - Practical Preservation

UNIQUE HISTORICAL FEATURES SERIES: “Haunted” Victorian Houses

Leave a Comment / architectural style, bathrooms, Chateauesque, Community Preservation, cultural assets, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic preservation and restoration education, Historical Aesthetics, Historical Architectural Styles, Historical Architecture, historical interiors, History education, House museums, Late Victorian Period, Maintaining Historic Buildings, Museum, Preservation Conversations & Controversies, Unique historical features series / By Danielle Keperling

UNIQUE HISTORICAL FEATURES SERIES – On this 4th Tuesday of the month, our focus isn’t on a specific feature per se, but more on a combination of features; a whole architectural style, in fact. And we’re focusing on how mutable cultural values created and then reviled that style, resulting in its being the focus of …

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Preservation Pointers: Internal Gutter Systems

Leave a Comment / Architectural & Building Character, Colonial Architecture, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Reconstruction, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, Late Victorian Period, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, Preservation Education, Products Materials and Methods, Resources for Historic Restorations / By Danielle Keperling

Typically, on homes built in the mid-1800’s until the early 1900’s, the most unexpected maintenance problem deals with the internal gutter system. This is because the problem is hidden until the failure has begun. However, regular inspection and maintenance can catch the problem before it is too late, and damage is done. First, I bet …

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How Complete Restorations Happen: A Case Study of the Mylin House

Colonial Architecture, Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Projects, Historic Restoration, Historic Wood Windows, Historical Architectural Styles, Historical Architecture, Late Victorian Period, Maintaining Historic Buildings, Preservation in Progress, Products Materials and Methods, Uncategorized / By Danielle Keperling

The Mylin House project was a complete interior restoration project that we had been very much looking forward to doing. The Willow Valley Retirement Community hired Historic Restorations to restore the first floor of both the original farmhouse and the addition to use as a community center in keeping with their preservation of the original …

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