What's Going on at the old Town House? September 2017

September 5, 2017 - Scaffolding is in place for the Town House chimney repair.

The chimney (with its metal flue liner and stone cap) is in fairly good condition, despite a couple of loose bricks that will be reinstalled.

Is that a fiddler on the roof of our Town House? No, it's our mason, Dave Cutter, a lifelong resident of Center Harbor!

Only a few areas of the chimney need to be repointed. Some over-filled but intact masonry joints from a previous repair will remain.

September 7, 2017 - The chimney repairs have been completed, from its cap...

...And down its walls.

Did you know that this chimney replaced the original one in the center of the Town House? When and why this happened is lost in the distant past.