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Friday, February 20, 2026

The Practical Geometry of Boston's Old North Church

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3/26/2026: Revised.   The Old North Church, in Boston's North End, was built in 1723.* The church fathers responsible for its constructi...
Monday, February 2, 2026

The layout of an Italianate window pediment, Part 2

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Last September I wrote about duplicating this ogee molding   - the continuous double curved casing above the triple windows in the center  o...
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Asher Benjamin's pattern book in Bennington, Vermont

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  In 1838 ,  Judge Luman Norton, his daughter Louise and her husband Christopher Fenton built this 2 family house in Bennington, Vermont. Th...
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Saturday, September 13, 2025

The layout of an Italiante window pediment

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  The curvy Italianate molding above that window in the center?  How did they do that?  How did carpenters in south eastern Massachusetts in...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Asher Benjamin explains how to make stucco

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  First, a brief introduction to stucco.  Are stucco and plaster the same thing? Not now.Today stucco is used outside. Its recipe will be di...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

The geometry of 18th C. furniture design explored by Steve Brown and Will Neptune

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  Steve Brown and Will Neptune, are cabinet markers who also teach.  They wrote   Classic Proportion in Eighteenth Century Furniture Design....
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The Carpenter Square and the Compass - The Evolution of Practical Geometry

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  On May 31, 2025, I will present Practical Geometry and Carpenter Squares at the Early American Trades Association (EAIA)* conference in ...