Webcam watchers and those within visiting-distance will want to mark their calendars for the upcoming Market House frame- raising! Activity begins at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5th with the raising of the walls, followed by ceiling pieces and trusses. Master Carpenter Garland Wood predicts that this will all be in a day’s work, but if he and the crew run out of day, raising will continue on the 6th. Hope to see you there!
Mary Howard says
@Meredith thank you. I hope to soon be back there as well. Hopefully I will get something soon.
Mary~
Thanks for writing, and for sharing your many Virginia connections. Good luck in the application process. Hope that we get to know you as a fellow employee!
It is good to see the progress of the Market House via the webcam and the blogs. My wife and I will be in Williamsburg in June and cannot wait to see the work in person. Thanks for the up-dates.
Ron
Ron~
We look forward to welcoming you back in June! You should be especially interested in seeing the Scale House, which you worked so hard to help find!
Mary Howard says
I am loving following the rebuild of the market house. My love for Colonial Williamsburg started when I was about 9 years old and my parents took me for the very first time. My moms family goes all the way back to Jamestown, so I feel like Virginia is home. I was lucky enough to get to work at the Kings Arms Tavern from 2007-2010 and live in one of the colonial kitchens. I am now applying for positions at Colonial Williamsburg again and hope that I can make my way back and be able to watch first hand as this is constructed and not just watch it through the webcam. Williamsburg is such a beautiful and wonderful place.
Hi Jackie~
So glad you’ll be visiting soon, and that you are enjoying the webcam! Between April 13 and May 5th the “featured activities” on the Market House site will include site grading and the installation of paths, as well as the installation of base plates, on which the Market House posts will sit. Typically, you might expect to see the brick foundations being laid at this point. Given the unusual configuration of a Market House, however, the foundation will be bricked in after the posts are installed and adjustments made….so after the frame-raising.
If the on-site activities are not active enough during your visit, please visit Great Hopes Plantation where you will be able to see the carpenters pre-fabricating the Market House roof!
jackie says
What will be going on between tomorrow and the 5th of May, 2014? We will be visiting Colonial Williamsburg during the week of April 20th and hope to see some activity at the site that week . We watch the web cam each day and the progress that takes place. Thanks.