The two-year course is designed to combine traditional and contemporary residential carpentry skills with an overall understanding of historical building techniques and materials. Students are taught the tasks and techniques involved in stabilizing endangered buildings, preserving and uncovering architectural details, and recreating documented design elements appropriate to the project. Facilities Preservation Carpentry facilities are well suited for lectures and small building projects.
Students have their own bench and work spaces.
The machine and model-building shop is shared with the Carpentry program. From the rich historical legacy of pre-20th century buildings found, in New England instructors carefully select field projects. Often, they are at non-profit museum and other historical sites. Click to enlarge Faculty Robert Adam joined the faculty of NBSS in 1982 as an accomplished cabinetmaker and carpenter with a background in secondary vocational school teaching. He implemented Massachusetts' first historic restoration curriculum at the secondary level.