Name: This Old House
Genre: Documentary

This Old House Episode 29.05 Newton: Retaining Wall, Historic Wallcovering

This Old House Episode 29.05 Newton: Retaining Wall, Historic Wallcovering

Episode Premiere

November 1, 2007

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

This Old House Productions

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/show/old-house/

Information

Episode Premiere

November 1, 2007

Genre

Documentary

Period

1979 -

Production Co

This Old House Productions

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/show/old-house/

Synopsis

Landscape contractor Roger Cook installs 200 running feet of pre-cast concrete to create a retaining wall that will define the perimeter of the new backyard. Inside the house, wallpaper historian Richard Nylander helps host Kevin O'Connor date and evaluate the historic wallpaper throughout the house, while general contractor Tom Silva frames for a new window in an old wall. Kevin makes a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see how three 19th century buildings are being moved as part of a construction project at Harvard Law School. The million-dollar move, which has been planned for five years, requires the buildings to be lifted and rolled down Massachusetts Avenue on hydraulic dollies steered by remote control.