Bringing Back a Queen Anne
The MacKenzie House
Slowly stripped of much of its Queen Anne ornament over time, the MacKenzie House is still a neighborhood landmark. The house was built in 1889 by William K. Chapman for $5000. A that time a 16′ x 28′ barn was also built at the southeast corner of the property. Cost of the barn was $350. [...]
An Unusual Porch Roof
Having a historic photo and physical evidence to guide the work of the upper porch was incredibly good fortune. However this good fortune didn’t extend to the porch roof bracket. One of the unusual design features of the MacKenzie House is a porch roof that extends beyond the end of the lower porch to the [...]
Installing Hidden Support
The installation of the new porch foundation ensured that there was solid support for the existing porch posts all of the way down below the frost line. However, since the new upper posts would not align with the existing posts below, structure was necessary inside the porch roof to support the new posts and transfer [...]
A Foundation Fix
It would be logical to think that if you were recreating something that once was supported on a porch roof, the porch roof would be the place to start. In this case things are not what they seem. While the existing porch roof did at one time support the upper gable roof the support was [...]
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