PROJECT HIGHLIGHT: Historic Smokehouse Restoration

Written By Lindsey Cline

Old-Fashioned Techniques Bring New Life

Our team rebuilt an early 19th-century smokehouse on a National Register of Historic Places former plantation in Appomattox. We promptly used our restoration skills, scouting the property and collecting boulders and stones from the fields and former buildings to repurpose for the new wall. 

The team used two Old World stonework techniques to rework this building: feathers and wedges, and chiseling. These centuries-old masonry techniques create a natural look, a perfect match to original stonework.

ICYMI: See our team restore the smokehouse on Instagram.

Lindsey Cline
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