Season 19
(1997)
Overview
The Milton House; The San Francisco House
Cast
as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert
as Self - Master Carpenter
as Self - General Contractor
as Host
as Self - Landscape Contractor
Episodes
The Milton House - 1 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 2 0.0
October 4, 1997
Our host arrives to find excavator Herb Brockert preparing to knock down the rotting ell off the barn. The crew salvage…
The Milton House - 3 0.0
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 …
The Milton House - 4 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 5 0.0
October 25, 1997
Our master carpenter's workshop continues to take shape, as Richard Trethewey lays out radiant floor heating tubes over…
The Milton House - 6 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 7 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 8 0.0
November 15, 1997
Victory Garden chef Marian Morash and kitchen designer Phil Mossgraber work to refine a plan for the new kitchen, with …
The Milton House - 9 0.0
November 22, 1997
Our host arrives to find our master carpenter unpacking the new stationary woodworking tools for the workshop; they adm…
The Milton House - 10 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 11 0.0
December 6, 1997
Our master carpenter inspects the new garage doors, made of redwood to look like old-fashioned outswing carriage doors …
The Milton House - 12 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 13 0.0
December 20, 1997
Our host arrives to find the site thick with trucks delivering drywall, cement board, and interior wooden doors. In a r…
The Milton House - 14 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 15 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 16 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 17 0.0
January 17, 1998
Interior designers begin their work as the construction crew scurries to finish up the job. Painter John Dee uses a woo…
The Milton House - 18 0.0
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…
The Milton House - 19 0.0
January 31, 1998
The grand finale in Milton, with the house completed furnished with the work of 10 separate decorating teams. We tour t…
The San Francisco House - 1 0.0
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…
The San Francisco House - 2 0.0
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 …
The San Francisco House - 3 0.0
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…
The San Francisco House - 4 0.0
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 …
The San Francisco House - 5 0.0
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…
The San Francisco House - 6 0.0
March 14, 1998
Our host visits Alcatraz before heading off to the jobsite, where our master carpenter is hard at work installing the n…
The San Francisco House - 7 0.0
March 21, 1998
The final episode on the San Francisco project begins with a visit to the Marin County Civic Center, Frank Lloyd Wright…