This series shows what our local rusticians can do when the client opens the checkbook.
The bark-on log work is pretty common, on the high-end weekend houses being built. The waney edge siding, called “brainstorm,” looks good with cedar shingled gables up high.
I am working with the yard that cuts and produces most all the log, board, and twig stuff for the local trade. He’s making me some columns I need from peeled cedar. In his storage building, last week, I walked by probably two full semi-trailer loads of palletized birchbark. Big 3′ x 3′ sheets of it, stacked up waist high, banded tight to the pallets.
Of course, the twig rail shown passes local inspection. No four-inch balls used in this town.
This little lakeside “cottage,” all 6900 sf of it, including basement and all porches, is stick framed, but it has a timber-framed structure inside, all heavy squared doug fir, and the timberframe package alone cost almost $70K
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At the lake's opposite end, the end with the good view of the high peaks, here's a bit of steel going into the gable wall that will have the good lookout.
This one is going up on a lot on which they tore down the house, circa 1955, that was on it, as soon as the new owners closed on the property. About $1.8 mil for about half an acre, sidewalk and street immediately adjacent.
The same fab shop that made this, will get the order for some steel I need for my project. I saw all the steel on the ground here before it started going up, and I figure we've got about the same size order. Mine computes out at 4,350 pounds.
This one is going up on a lot on which they tore down the house, circa 1955, that was on it, as soon as the new owners closed on the property. About $1.8 mil for about half an acre, sidewalk and street immediately adjacent.
Its nice to see the rich folks having a good time. Nothing can ruin a neighborhood faster than rich folks ;)
jt8
Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers. -- American Proverb
This little cottage, part of the Mirror Lake Inn complex, got a new cedar roof last week.
They slapped it on right atop the old cedar shingles. Now, what do you think about that?
Is that the Lake Placid Mirror Lake??? Sure looks familiar.....I'm from Gpuverneur originally....Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast, SHOW NO MERCY!!!
Looking up while walking along the south side of Main Street, I am admiring the trim work on the remodeled building that houses our Ben & Jerry's, and a new high end clothing store.
Windowsills are stone, the woodwork is mahogany. I don't know the carver.
I like the sign. I have three different sizes of scoop gouges, and have done a little bit of the kind of stuff you see in the field around the lettering.
This building originally was our local Catholic church, built in 1886. You would never know it now.
They let you into town??
Yer killin me.
Jess and I never made it up this winter, I wish I could say it's because we were too busy. Maybe this summer though, and we'll be sure to look you up when we do.
How long do you think that window trim will last?
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Some very interesting architectural details. Thanks for posting the pics...
One Q about the "The bark-on log work". How long does the bark actually stay on? Indefinitely? Is some kind of clear finish applied?
Thanks,Matt
The bark-on stuff you see is all local white cedar. Cut in the winter, the bark stays on indefinitely, and no coatings are used.
I didn't show a pic of it, but the cedar logs are often used as siding, in a vertical-stave pattern. The "great camp" style homes have their gable ends done in this fashion. I have seen it laid up padded out with maybe 3/4" of furring, then the bottom end of each stave is cut sharp to a point, and the top edge of the brainstorm claps are tucked up under.
Looks like someone cut along the bottom of the gable end with a king-sized pair of pinking shears.
Gene...Is that Lake Placid?? I was wondering if it was that Mirror Lake...If you aren't one of the one's I'm talking about,you shouldn't have any complaints....
The lake in the pic, the one of the new cedar roof on the lakeside cottage, is Mirror Lake. The village of Lake Placid has its Main Street running along one side of Mirror Lake.
The shores of Lake Placid are all either private property or state land, and at its closest point, the big lake is about 150 yards away from Mirror Lake.
Thanks Gene for the input...I moved here from Gouverneur a couple years ago,,,,sure do miss the north country......If you aren't one of the one's I'm talking about,you shouldn't have any complaints....
Gene...was meaning to ask how the winter was up there, I saw a couple pictures of the St Lawrence yesterday and it's open already....did some ice fishing a couple years ago on Tupper Lake and also some little lake in between T.L. and L.P. Not much luck on that small lake but some beautiful scenery. Used to spend quite a bit of time in LP, is that steak and ale house still along main street on the right side as you're heading toward downtown???If you aren't one of the one's I'm talking about,you shouldn't have any complaints....