Earlier this week, the construction workers put up a sample piece of the new copper that will become the dome. They wanted to make sure they had the measurements correct and that the copper would fit properly over the curvature and battens before they cut enough for the whole building […]
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Walk in the footsteps of a literary giant with The Town that Lew Knew, a free architecture walking tour of Crawfordsville. We’ll see buildings in the neighborhood and business district that were here when Wallace walked the leaf-lined avenues. The tour starts at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 9, at the […]
Ratio Architects from Indianapolis began the paint analysis by revealing what lies underneath the current paint layer. This preliminary test uncovered small pieces of the walls in different places in the Study: the entryway, under the benches by the fireplace, along the flowered frieze, and more. Surprise! The entryway of […]
The bad news about the Study Restoration Project is that two days after they removed an entire side of the roof, it poured rain for hours! We haven’t had rain in weeks – maybe the best way to make sure it’s wet out is to start major construction. The good […]
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: workers removed an entire side of the Study roof! Workers went up more than 30 feet in a lift truck to cut the copper roof into manageable pieces. Then they pried the pieces from the underlayment… and put them in the basket […]
We’re looking to add volunteers to Lew’s Crew! Following in Lew’s footsteps (as Adjutant General he recruited 13 companies of soldiers for the Civil War in 10 days), we’re calling everyone interested. Our biggest need is for tour guides, so if you are a people person willing to be an […]
To reset the front steps of the Study, workers removed caulking and sealant from around the cracks and gaps (we posted pictures last week), and then looped a harness around each step to remove them with the lift truck. Pulling the stop step away from the building. Completely removed! One […]
Some of the artifacts found in the screens include pieces of bottles (round pieces in the middle), fragments of plates (bottom left corner), nails (upper right corner), and a squirrel vertebrae (top). Anne Moore of Weintraut and Associates excavates a feature. An archaeological feature is like an artifact, but it […]
The archaeologists devoted one unit to finding the bottom of the reflecting pool. A probe indicated that the bottom of the pool is about 55 cm below the bottom of the unit when this picture was taken. That’s going to take a lot of digging! Because this is not an […]
Where is the grave of Old John? Local lore has it that Lew Wallace buried his favorite horse, named John, somewhere on the grounds. Last fall, surveyer Jim Swift brought out ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to investigate the southwestern corner of the grounds, where many people remember there being a marker […]