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Stone House Restoration Project Update — Hybrid Drawings of Newly Exposed Rear Walls

March 5, 2015 By Admin

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Mr. Peter Aaslestad photographing the rear wall of the log side of the Stone House on the 13th of February 2015.

On Friday the 13th of February Mr. Peter Aaslestad used photogrammetry and point cloud scanning technologies to create reliable documentation of the surfaces we had exposed last year when we removed the rear additions. Mr. Aaslestad had generated the “before restoration” hybrid drawings of the exterior of the structure back in 2013. (See our page on this subject at http://newtownhistorycenter.org/stone-house-restoration-project/hybrid-drawings/.) The work Mr. Aaslestad accomplished on the 13th of February has been incorporated into the earlier hybrid drawings of the rear of the structure. The results speak for themselves. (See image below.) The new hybrid drawings of these formerly covered surfaces will be used by our team of consultants and architectural historians to generate more drawings that will explain the way the Stone House was altered over the course of its long history.

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Mr. Aaslestad checking an image he had just taken on that cold day.
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The hybrid drawings of the newly exposed surfaces on the rear of the Stone House incorporated into the earlier hybrid drawings (generated in 2013) of the exterior of the structure.

 

 

Filed Under: Stone House Restoration Project Progress Updates

Stone House Restoration Project Progress Updates

  • Completion of the Gutters and Other Progress
  • Painting of the Soffit and Crown
  • Painting Preparations for the Crown Molding

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