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Floor plan of Carpenters
Photographer: Beverly Pfingsten
Taken: July 5, 2008
Caption: Floor plan of Carpenters' Hall, 1786
Additional Description: Drawing Designs, making out bills of scantling, collecting materials, and flicking up stuff, are to be charged by the Carpenters in proportion to the trouble.
To take the demensions of floor of joists in brick buildings and nine inches, and in flone tweleve inches, more than the clear of the walls on the side the joists bear on.
An excerpt from the Rules of the Carpenters' Company
An arched dormer window
A fan sash over a door
A wooden gate
Examples of architectural details from the 1786 Rule Book of the Carpenters' Company which gave prices for house-carpenters' work.
Submitted: July 28, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p29747
File Size: 0.727 Megabytes

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