A Brief History

The project entails repairing the building at 335 Maplewood Ave in a manner that meets both preservation and sustainability goals. The building is the new location for Petersen Engineering, a firm that has been located in Portsmouth since 1992, and specializes in sustainable building engineering. We intend for this project to showcase techniques & materials that promote both preservation and sustainability and intend to share all aspects of the project locally and regionally through open houses, presentations, industry tradeshows, case studies and publications. We foresee this project being a valuable educational tool to demonstrate that preservation goals need not be compromised by sustainability goals. We have teamed with Bruss Construction who we know from past collaborations has exceptional experience and expertise on projects with the dual goal of preservation and sustainability.

The project received approval by the Historic District Commission on January 6, 2010 with construction scheduled to begin early February 2010.

The projected peak heat loss reduction is 85%.


Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Interior finish work begins

Ron Dixon (Dixon Building LLC, South Berwick, ME (603)591-3710) began working this morning on the interior of the second floor office in the addition. He has started patching up the floor where the bathroom once stood. He was able to use a pile of old floor boards we salvaged from a renovation across town for making the patches.




Ron sorting though pile of salvaged floor boards taken from a home being renovated accross town.

While pulling up damaged floor boards, Ron found pages from some type of a jounal or log book from 1804 stashed beteween the floor joists! We can't quite make out what it says.


This is the joist bay that the papers were found.




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  1. Interior Glass DoorsMarch 18, 2013 at 4:08 PM

    Its astonishing that this journal page survived such great length of time. Maybe archaeologists or relic experts can figure out its meaning. Some of the page's text are visible and I can see the word "Monday" from there.

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