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Season 19

(1997)

Overview

The Milton House; The San Francisco House

Cast

Richard Trethewey as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert
Richard Trethewey

as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert

Norm Abram as Self - Master Carpenter
Norm Abram

as Self - Master Carpenter

Tom Silva as Self - General Contractor
Tom Silva

as Self - General Contractor

Roger Cook as Self - Landscape Contractor
Roger Cook

as Self - Landscape Contractor

Episodes

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September 27, 1997

The show opens in the historic town of Milton, Massachusetts, founded in 1662 and the site of the c. 1725 Colonial home…

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October 4, 1997

Our host arrives to find excavator Herb Brockert preparing to knock down the rotting ell off the barn. The crew salvage…

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October 11, 1997

The show opens with a visit to the top of Great Blue Hill and its historic weather observatory (built in 1885) to view …

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October 18, 1997

Our master carpenter lays out lines for subslab ductwork in his workshop, and the crew strips off the barn's old shingl…

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October 25, 1997

Our master carpenter's workshop continues to take shape, as Richard Trethewey lays out radiant floor heating tubes over…

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November 1, 1997

A big day on the site: the structural insulated panels for the new workshop are hoisted into place - they, along with a…

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November 8, 1997

The house's new spaces are framed and sheated, giving us a chance to tour the new kitchen and media room. The front fac…

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November 15, 1997

Victory Garden chef Marian Morash and kitchen designer Phil Mossgraber work to refine a plan for the new kitchen, with …

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November 22, 1997

Our host arrives to find our master carpenter unpacking the new stationary woodworking tools for the workshop; they adm…

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November 29, 1997

Richard Trethewey is on site to see the new gas line being laid and the old oil tanks removed, courtesy of a gas compan…

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December 6, 1997

Our master carpenter inspects the new garage doors, made of redwood to look like old-fashioned outswing carriage doors …

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December 13, 1997

A busy day at the site, as several weather-sensitive jobs are brought to completion. The crew puts in the final touches…

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December 20, 1997

Our host arrives to find the site thick with trucks delivering drywall, cement board, and interior wooden doors. In a r…

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December 27, 1997

The show opens at the Milton gravesite of Captain John Crehore (born 1694), the builder of the Milton house. At the hou…

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January 3, 1998

The finishes have begun at the Milton project. We see the shellac and wax work painter John Dee is applying to the stri…

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January 10, 1998

The show opens to find landscaper Roger Cook and crew putting in a granite block curb around the driveway island to pro…

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January 17, 1998

Interior designers begin their work as the construction crew scurries to finish up the job. Painter John Dee uses a woo…

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January 24, 1998

The show opens to find Roger Cook and crew laying down a sod lawn and we recieve a one-button key-fob controller demo f…

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January 31, 1998

The grand finale in Milton, with the house completed furnished with the work of 10 separate decorating teams. We tour t…

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February 7, 1998

This Old House's team goes to San Francisco to take on a unique project: the conversion of a 1906 church (lately a syna…

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February 14, 1998

The crew start the workday at the Powell Street cable car turntable, where cars are spun around by hand for the return …

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February 21, 1998

The show opens at a spectacular spot: the top of the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, 48 stories above the Bay. A…

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February 28, 1998

The show opens with a walk through the magnificent Muir Woods, home of the coast redwood, the world's tallest tree. At …

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March 7, 1998

The crew visits Coloma, California, where the Gold Rush began in 1848, to see Sutter's Mill and try their hands at pann…

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March 14, 1998

Our host visits Alcatraz before heading off to the jobsite, where our master carpenter is hard at work installing the n…

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March 21, 1998

The final episode on the San Francisco project begins with a visit to the Marin County Civic Center, Frank Lloyd Wright…