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An Introduction to Dating and Drawing Historic Buildings

Instructor Nevan Carling

Date: September 6, 2025

Price: $ 175 ($165 for Kilts Farm members)

Maximum class size: 5 - 7

Participants in this class will learn how to identify and date salient

features of historic structures such as whether the structure is scribed or

square rule, the methods of conversion for the timber in the structure, and

different tool marks found in timber framed structures. The course will also

seek to give a preliminary overview of how to set out and measure historic

structures and what key details should be included in drawings. The hope

is to create a new generation of people actively engaged in surveying and

recording historic buildings in their local area, like what the WPA and

HABS were doing at the turn of the 20th century.

Nevan Carling is a conservation timber framer based in Connecticut. He is a graduate of the University of York, England, where he earned a First Class undergraduate degree in Archaeology and Heritage Management. He is currently pursuing an MSc in Timber Building Conservation at the Weald and Downland Living Museum in Chichester, England. Nevan works as a conservation timber framer and teaches/demonstrates hewing at the Eric Sloane Museum in Kent, CT.









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