Carpenter's Hall. The historic guild building that still teaches us how to build.
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Brent visits Carpenter's Hall in Philly and discovers inspiring building techniques that we should still be practicing today. This building still teaches us how to build better.
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What an amazing building. And to think of all the craftsman who went there. Wow super cool!
Agreed! Thanks.
Think about the “craftsmen” that dreamed up how to start this country that actually gathered and worked there. I would be awestruck.
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Very cool details on that building! Thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.
Beautiful building. Would definitely enjoy a longer video of the hall and its library.
I found some interior photos. There is an awesome staircase in the foyer. There is also a chair rail in the foyer. I’d love to know the dimensions and proportions.
Noted! And I agree, unfortunately the day I was there they had already closed.
I'll look into it. Thanks.
Gorgeous building. 👍🏻
It really is!
Really great information. Keep bringing it Brent
You got it! Thanks!
Thanks!
Fantastic Georgian detail. Love the shutters, window/door surrounds and the brick. So much to learn from this. Please do more.
Thanks, will do!
Very interesting style of building. Very typical of true Georgian buildings here in the UK except for the glazed Flemish bond above the English bond.
The use of headers came about to tie the 2 parts of a 9” wall together. So, it became a solid brick wall - no void between skin and inner. That style was still used in the UK right through until the second half of the 20th century when the neccessity of insulation came to the fore. Much better, insulation wise, to have 2 separate skins of brick with a void or insulation in between. The skins still had to be tied together for stability and so wire ties were used every few feet or so. Of course, new houses built are just not built this way now. Very few houses are built with 2 skins ob brick and, almost as rare, a hpuse where the brick is structural rather than a design aesthetic. If you are lucky, you might get a house with a brick outer skin and breize block (old term and not really accurate) inner face. If, like so many, your house was built by an accountant, you would be right to be worried about the quality of the construction. Just as many of the internal doors now are no better than compressed cardboard, there is a bean counter somewhere working out how much money could be saved if he could substitute cardboard for bricks.
One of the very best programmes in the UK Grand Designs series was maybe 10 years ago. A guy worked in the woods making stuff to sell like interwoven fencing, trugs etc. and his “house” was a simple hammock between 2 trees and a wood fire. Eventually, he got permission to build a small house providing that the house was tied to the coppicing of the wood (in other words, it could only be used or sold to the next woodworker). This guy made his house out of bales of straw with a natural render of mud, animal dung etc. it was a great episode to watch and the resulting house was basic but incredibly well insulated and cheap to build. As the old saying about cob houses goes - keep its feet amd it’s head dry and it will last forever. There are many cob houses surviving 3, 4 hundred years. If they had had accountants in charge then, the cob houses might have lasted 10 years but no more.
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
The eve/cornice returns and the pent roofs on the gable ends are perfect. They deserve their own video. (hint, hint). As are the shutters and their hardware, but I think you already did a shutter video.
Good idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
0:52-1:07 what is that thing the downspout is going into??? Never seen that before!!
A boot! Used to tie the downspouts to the under ground clay pipes. Thanks.
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Wood? Plaster?
Perhaps a video on downspout boots?
I love to compare everything to FL Wright. Being a contrarian, he would have marginalized this building. Look at the "desert masonry " he used in Arizona. It's way more gaudy than this flemish bond, and yet he always implied that he preferred "repose" over "showyness". I think the truth is, he liked eye candy as much as anyone. He just demanded that it be a new iteration.
Interesting. Thanks.
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ok.