Tyler Stapleton

I'd follow that up with a couple of granite steps that were freebies, but I had to split the long one in half in order to move it!

28.11.2024 06:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My most unique find was a 881 pound anchor that was brought up from the bottom of the ocean off Cape St. Mary's NL by a fishing boat in the 1980's and put on Marketplace last year. Most likely from a 100+ year old shipwreck.

28.11.2024 05:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If it is the last thing I do, we will get one of these for the Colony of Avalon in Ferryland, NL 😍

27.11.2024 02:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I have the slightly less realistic desire to see them everywhere 😅

The site of the old Anglican Parish Hall on Queen's Road would be a good start.

27.11.2024 05:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Over the next little while, I'll be posting some of the #restoration content that I was proudly building over on Twitter for the last 7 years.

Let's start with April 2024.

Out with plastic, in with wood!

20.11.2024 18:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Heritage NL published a field note about some of the stone work that was an integral part of this project.

t.co/8kmXqStxGh

20.11.2024 18:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision tondemand that which is good?" Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

While reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this quote leapt off the page at me. Though she is speaking about the use of DDT and pesticides, I can't help but see how this applies to architecture, built heritage, and place making.

19.11.2024 05:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'd love to be added :)

18.11.2024 23:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Competiton with a public vote?

18.11.2024 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cutting (my first ever) mortise and tenon joint in this 6x6 post for the cooperage rebuild. Now that it's in place, you can't even see it (🥲). But I'll know it's there, and that pleases me immensely.

Just one more way that I'm adding a splash of old soul into this new build.

18.11.2024 07:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Heritage home restoration project uncovers a piece of lost St. John's history | CBC News When a St. John's heritage home owner found out that a part of history might be lying beneath the ground in his backyard, he called Era Nova Archaeological Services to rediscover a lost piece of local history.

This project started put with an archeological dig which was very exciting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

17.11.2024 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can just catch a glimpse of my latest project: rebuilding the old cooperage! I can't wait to get some new wood windows and spruce clapboard installed!

17.11.2024 18:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hello world! Starting off on this new platform seems quite daunting, but here's hoping to recreating a new little circle of those who appreciate old houses.

📸 Simms House Heritage Structure c.1882

17.11.2024 18:11 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0