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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 23, 2017
Caption: Custom House Reconstruction Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) Adair's 1852 U.S. Customs House, shortly before its demolition.; (bottom, 2nd from left) Tools used in notching hand-hewn logs are a mallet, auger, and corner chisels where logs fit together.; (top center) The sill is hand hewn from fir logs, resting upon foundation stones.; (bottom center) A mortise is a rectangular cavity prepared to receive a tenon to form a joint. This mortise was created by hand, using a mallet and straight chisel, then smoothed by hand planning.; (top, 2nd from right) Corner of building showing "skip sheathing" or boards laid with space between them. Sheathing provides the base for the cedar shingle roof.; (bottom, 2nd from right) A tenon, a projection of the end of a piece of wood is shaped for insertion into a mortise, a rectangular cavity to make a joint. Here, tenons are ready to slip into mortises on the lower sill of the building.; (top right) A view of the southwest corner showing hand-planed moldings, window sills, and cedar shingles.; (bottom right) Rocks for the foundations were selected from a nearby rock quarry.
Submitted: February 7, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p415984
File Size: 3.434 Megabytes

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