If you’re heading toward Carlisle headquarters this summer, “shake’” it up a bit

Carlisle has been working for 35 years on projects to restore and reproduce antique wood floors. Several of these exciting projects have been in buildings that are on the list of National Historic Landmarks. Whenever we take on such a project, we work with the client to make sure we understand the building’s history, its location, the era in which it was built, the style of the floor and the original craftspeople involved. One such Historic Landmark project we worked on is virtually in our own backyard here at Carlisle headquarters in Stoddard, New Hampshire. Canterbury Shaker Village shown here in our e-newsletter. Canterbury Shaker Village is just about an hour’s drive from us and, now that summer has arrived, we recommend to folks passing through New Hampshire. The restaurant on this site is topnotch, and the history of the Shaker clan that founded this community is endlessly fascinating. Established here in 1792 and operating as a viable community for 200 years, the last member of the Shaker sect (they were celebate, so the sect has died out) died in 1992. The property has been a museum ever since. For this one, we used Heart Pine, 4 to 8” widths and we think it does justice to 200-plus years of history!

Posted on July 13, 2009 at 01:37 PM in (0) Comments

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