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As the
town celebrates its founding in 1634, the design and building community of Ipswich is working together to create two side-by-side exhibits. The pair of buildings spans 375 years of architectural, cultural and environmental history.
In
part, we're building up the construction community itself: creating
professional awareness and connections among llocal architects,
builders, carpenters, contractors, designers, vendors and other
industry businesses and tradesmen. Meanwhile, the exhibits are
educating and engaging the wider community. Lay people--unskilled
volunteers who just walk onto the site and offer to help--are lending a
hand on this project. Everyone's learning as they go, both the pros and
the amateurs!
Along the way, we can see that it once took a
'village' just to raise a single structure. Imagine building a whole
new community! As builder Jay Esty observes in one of his weekly updates, "As you set yourselves to the work, feel yourself as one of
many, a multitude stretching across town, Cape Ann, and centuries."
To follow along with the weekly musings and insights of the project team leaders, visit the Weekly Journal.
The two buildings, as they go up
side-by-side, show how much has changed across the centuries. And how
much has remained the same.
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