Summer Solstice Open House: 6/21/2013
The Robbins House will be open on the evening of Friday, June 21, as part of the Summer Solstice celebration (and Riverfest)
Read MoreThe 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 down in front left, excavation for accessible walk begun, material for...
Read MoreDGP 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
Read MoreStone 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.
Read MoreRobbins House new windows and door
Construction progress the Robbins House: contractors complete installation of 6 over 9 windows and a new door.
Read MoreWe’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 front shingles should progress quickly. Traditional framers on site. To Do...
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