I’ll start posting some pics of S. King’s restoration of an 1860’s Mansard on West Broadway in Bangor,me.
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This compact detatched accessory dwelling has an efficient layout with a vaulted ceiling that enhances the sense of space.
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Neat sg window. Looks like the neighbor has a nice house too.
jt8
"The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded."
-- Dr. Dale Turner
Thats Stephen King's house as viewed thru the window on the third floor of the Mansard that will soon be his personal Library-they are adjacent houses.
I'll post a bunch more in the coming days showing the slate work and the incredible mahogany and Spanish cedar exterior rebuild.
That's the house I want when I come back in my next lifetime as Bill Gates' favourite grandchild.
"There is lots of 'nowhere' on Rannoch Moor!"
should we assume that you werked on it?
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Piffin,
We complete re worked the Mansard section of the roof.Removed all the patterned slates and replaced it all.
I'll post more soon of the elaborate woodwork on the exterior.
Zimba is just finishing up all the interior plastering-including remaking all the plaster cornice.
The interior is about to begin in earnest.
I'm looking foreward to more picts. When those Victorians got it right, they really got it right. I would love to own one, but only after the boys are totally through college and on their own. Better yet, I would love to be wealthy enough to have one restored and pay for the upkeep.
My FIL befriended and knows Mr. King from a flick of his he acted in, and I'm a big fan of his work especially the nonfiction book on writing.
Isn't there an interesting wrought iron gate around the place?
Man, I'd be constantly looking over my shoulder for CUJO !
Greg
Cujo, Smujo. I could handle him with a shot gun. "It" scared the living crap out of me.Birth, school, work, death.....................
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I read that whole book, wasn't it 1300 pages or something?
Yeah, it was pretty thick.Birth, school, work, death.....................
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I thought The Stand was kinda interesting. At least the first part.
jt8
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer
You know, I've read almost everything King has written. He's one of my guilty pleasures. Maybe he'll write one called "The Slateman". Whooo, I just got a cold chill up my spine.Birth, school, work, death.....................
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Good one. I too am a devoted fan but not of late. I kind of burned out on him, so it's been a few years. I loved Hearts in Atlantis...not scary but very sad.
The Bachman Books were fun.
I've missed a few of his latest - doesn't mean I won't get to them - I just haven't, yet. The guy's incredible if for nothing other than being prolific. Mentioning the Bachman stuff exemplifies that. He was writing too much to be published under one name. If I have one original thought a week, I'm pretty proud of myself.Birth, school, work, death.....................
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Ya, it was worth the read.
be and the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert
'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
Edited 1/13/2006 7:41 pm ET by razzman
Yes there is-I'll post a pic of that for you next week.
IIRC the fence was featured in one of the earliest issues of FH, probably in the second or third year. The article featured the blacksmith who did the iron work.
Slateman,
Beautiful windows, where did you get them? Nice barrel vault, nice work.
Looking forward to more pics.
The CM
Paramount Residential Construction Management
Connecticut
The windows were in the house prior to restoration.
The S.G. was refreshened,cleaned,etc. and installed in new mahogany sash.
Plastering crew plastered the complete interior-all three levels-painting is almost done.
Did he create the secret underground passage between houses. He expressed his desire, in an essay or interview--I don't remember, years ago to buy the house next door and use it solely as a place to keep books, with an underground passage connecting them. The whimsical sort of thing you get to consider doing when you unexpectedly find yourself having way more money than you ever imagined you could.
Early on there was a lot of speculation that a tunnel would be built-but none was ever put in.
The driveways between the houses are paved with binder so I doubt that it will be done now.
The other part is basically true.Lots and lots of bookcases to be built and installed-with some third floor bedrooms and a kitchen on level one.
Not to High-Jack, but seeing as your a Bangor Man, do you know a Dr. Wise or his son Robert jr. ?
They say its a Small World After All!
PS: thats some nice work!
I don't think I do know him.What type of practice does he have?
I might recognize the name of the group that he is in.