The Little Brick
The Little Brick has stood at a dirt road crossroads in a tiny Vermont village (pop. 200) for nearly 200 years. When we found it in 2017 it had been uninhabited for almost 2 years. Its former owners, the Wesbrooks, lived there since 1939, so our neighbors have lots of stories about them. We also have some of their home movies. Before we moved in there were eleven months of demolition, carpentry, sanding, scraping, envisioning, and deep cleaning. Here is the visual journey.
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The Little Brick
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Architectural parts await their turn for repurposing
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Wallpaper fragment on a demo wall
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A monarch visits September asters
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West bedroom after water damaged wall board removed
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Floorboards found under filthy linoleum: The Buttery
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The barn foundation across the road holds a lost garden
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Demo and wallpaper removal in the west bedroom
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Civil war era stenciling on upstairs walls: it was a former dance hall
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Backyard crab apple
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East Barnard Literary Society in the early 1900s
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My brother reused drawer and door fronts from the original sink cupboard
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Household finds left by the former owners

