Entries by Tony

A Few Parting Words

After first teaching for twenty years and then timber framing for thirty-six years, the last twenty-six of which have been as president of LCTF, I will be retiring at the end of December. This move isn’t sudden; it has been in the plans for more than a dozen years. To those clients, builders, and architects […]

The Beginnings of a Passion

I’ve designed and built four homes for myself.  Each one of them holds a special place in my heart–for the journey each took me on and for the joy of living in something I created. The first one was completed over fifty years ago. I was in my early twenties. I had saved the princely sum […]

The Abbey – Stone Mill Inn

When Ken and Karen Painter, owners of the award-winning and highly-rated Stone Mill Inn approached us about building the “Abbey” on their wedding venue and event estate, we knew we had to do it. It was both simple and graceful, plus it was barely two miles from our shop and office. This proximity made it […]