The Exterior Envelope is Complete!
The exterior envelope is complete! Front door on hinges, rear door installed and lockable, clapboards all complete. We are installing the gutter and trimming the rake boards. Site work is on-going: grass in rear is coming in, loam has been spread in front, low water requirement grass seed down in front, meadow grass seed mix [...]
DGP Receives National Trust’s 1772 Foundation Grant
The National Trust’s 1772 Foundation awarded the Robbins House Interpretive Center a $10,000 grant for our nine new customized 6 over 9 pane 18th century plank frame windows
Stone Bench Markers
The DGP has recently installed the first of a series of bench markers at the home site of Brister and Fenda Freeman in the Concord Town Forest. In addition to marking the locations of these home sites, which were so well known to Thoreau, the bench honors the memory of Concord’s slaves and former slaves.
Robbins House new windows and door
Construction progress the Robbins House: contractors complete installation of 6 over 9 windows and a new door.
We’re having fun now!
The contractors are layering 3 courses of shingles on the lower edge and will continue up the roof with a single overlapping layer. The first row is the critical and hardest row to set given the fact that the house doesn’t have a perfect perpendicular or parallel line in it’s structure. The remainder of the [...]
Robbins House is getting a new roof
Construction progress on the Robbins House: The contractors are layering 3 courses of shingles on the lower edge and will continue up the roof with a single overlapping layer. The first row is the critical and hardest row to set given the fact that the house doesn’t have a perfect perpendicular or parallel line in [...]