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  • 0.00 - 1.50 Credits

    This course is a hands-on workshop for the traditional building skill of Stonework Construction. The course includes the philosophy of historic preservation and traditional practices for repairing, repointing, cutting and carving stone.
  • 2.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Preservation and restoration work in England/ Wales/ Scotland and other places will give students actual experience working on centuries-old buildings while experiencing the culture of that country. Each year TBSI will schedule trips with a duration of one or two or three weeks with an emphasis in stone/masonry or stain glass/ faux/ tile painting or woodworking/ millwork/ carving/ building techniques or etc. related to preservation and restoration. The participants will learn history, experience the culture and do hands-on work in the particular area of travel.
  • 0.00 - 1.50 Credits

    This course is a hands-on workshop for the traditional building skill of adobe restoration. This course covers the history, philosophy, and traditional practices for the repair, manufacture, construction of historic adobe projects.
  • 0.00 - 1.50 Credits

    This is a hands on course for the traditional building skill of timber framing. The course covers the history, philosophy and traditional practices for the design, manufacture and construction of timber frame projects.
  • 0.00 - 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an introduction to and overview of current historic preservation practices including the Secretary of Interior's standards for preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of historic buildings. Methods used to fabricate building materials using traditional building skills and craft will be investigated.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides an introduction to and overview of building assessment procedures used in current historic preservation practice. Methods used to assess and rehabilitate building materials using traditional building skills and craft will be investigated.
  • 0.00 - 1.50 Credits

    The course includes the philosophy of historic preservation and hands-on traditional practices for repairing and maintaining antique furniture, including original finishes as an integral part of antique furniture history. Participants are encouraged to bring a small or medium piece of furniture to repair and refinish.
  • 0.00 - 2.00 Credits

    The Windsor chair style has endured for three centuries and is considered a high fashion chair today. The merit of the Windsor Chair is its beauty, simple lines, dignified, attractiver and decorative appearance. The participants in the 5 day workshop will build a Windsor chair from log, splitting, to shaping, to lathe turning and to assembling the finish product.
  • 0.00 - 1.50 Credits

    This course is a hands-on workshop for the traditional skills of millwork/ wood work and wood window fabrication, repair and restoration. The course includes the philosophy of historic preservation and traditional practices for the repair and replication of historic moldings, millwork, and wood windows. This course covers many aspects of millwork such as replicating and producing moldings, coping and mitering base and crown moldings, using historic wooden molding planes, fabricating windows sash and muntins. The course covers the use of liquid wood and epoxies to restore and preserve decayed moldings and window parts.
  • 0.00 - 1.50 Credits

    This course is a hands-on introduction to the theory and practice of historic landscape preservation. Instruction includes visits to historic properties in Sanpete County to de-construct historic landscapes by examining and documenting landscape features to scale. Participants will attempt to determine the origin of the matherials and building methods based on their experience and knowledge. Participants will apply what they learn by helping to construct a landscape feature.