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Salvagewrights Ltd.
Architectural Antiquities
| James Madison's Montpelier South Yard |
| To help visitors visualize the areas where domestic and skilled slaves lived and worked during the Madisons’ time, Montpelier appointed Salvagewrights to build timber outlines of a detached kitchen, 2 smokehouses, and slave quarters in the South Yard. |
Watch videos and read more on Montpelier's South Yard. The detached kitchen video http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=IE7CQVHwPU0&feature=related South Yard www.montpelier.org/mansion-and-grounds/landscape/south-yard |
Salvagewrights also built a period gate and hurdles to represent the entrance as it was in James Madison's time. gate - cypress and heart pine, mortise and tenon hurdles - hand riven oak rails, mortised styles, wooden pins fasten all parts together h |
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540-672-4456
PO Box 1132
Orange, Virginia 22960
info@salvagewrights.com
PO Box 1132
Orange, Virginia 22960
info@salvagewrights.com
