Great Unveiling at 27 Rugby

Rock Island has a program they call the Great Unveiling, where volunteers take off substitute siding.  We asked if we could borrow the name and they agreed.  We have done over 30 Great Unveilings since then.  In the old-fashioned spirit of a barn raising, volunteers take off the siding and then have a big lunch.  The Gifford Park Association gives a grant of $5000 as an incentive to anyone that is willing to take their siding off.

Here is 27 Rugby with the siding on:

We recently did an unveiling at 27 Rugby.  At the painter’s request, we only did half the house.  The unveiling uncovered major marks for fancy elements that had been removed and will be replaced.  The fancy elements were not removed below the porch roof, so they have some excellent patterns to go by to replace the missing ones.

Here are volunteers removing siding

Here is an old picture showing the bracket in the eves

Here is another old picture

 

I made a full scale mockup of the bracket to see how it looked.  Getting the design right was a major problem. Several tentative sketches were made.  The one I finally made has the approval of the owners. Mockups have to be made full scale so people can see what they look like.

Here is the owner holding it up on the house go see if the scale is correct.

Here is what the owners envision the house to look like when finished