SONRISE2/3/99 As a contractor I have built thirty-some houses. Some have
been huge, sprawling affairs, one was forty-five feet to the eves.
I enjoyed the challenges each one presented. Few were as formidable
as this one little shop project.A friend came to Olde World Woodworks with a yellowed
photograph of his house,taken when it was built fifty-odd years
before and asked us to build a mailbox to resemble it.The framing is half-inch plywood, the siding ripped from pine
boards. The windows have photographs of respective room furnishings
behind plexiglass. The center of the wraparound porch is hinged
for the door to the mailbox. The chimney is cut from a solid
piece of hardwood and woodburned to resemble brick. The owner keeps
it in his garage during the winter months but says all summer
long people stop to admire and take pictures of it.
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