Jane Griswold Radocchia

     What a quatrefoil!  What amazing craftsmanship! What exuberant geometry! The interrelated series  of curves are such fun to follow.  Th...

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

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

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

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

  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...