Historic Preservation and Restoration in the Old Ski Town
We live in a 100 year old house in Carbondale, Colorado. The famed WildSnow workshop is in the detached garage, and my office is in the north wing of the home. By some standards, when we bought the house we did a historic restoration — mainly because we chose to keep nearly the original footprint and using a historic traditional look with our siding and windows. During our renovation we renewed and replaced nearly 100% of the house, including removing and rebuilding all the walls, having the house lifted for a new foundation, and doing all new mechanicals, wiring and plumbing. Basically, we built a new home by taking almost every chunk of the old home out in sequence and replacing with new.
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| WildSnow World HQ in 1989. |
While I did most of the work myself, during the 12 months the renovation took I hired a number of helpers. It would have been nice if these individuals would have had more training in building restoration.
Another interesting thing about being involved in renovation is that politics and government may intrude. This has happened up in Aspen, and we suspect historic preservation may become an issue down here in Carbondale — or it already is. Check out my diatribe about historic preservation here.
