cupolas and weather vanes

here is one i built using a vintage sky light that came out of an old factory. and couple i liked.

 

nautical themed weather vanes......

 

The ones I have.

 

Many of the homes I built over the years had cupolas that were designed by architects and I used to really enjoy building them.
Almost of them had full size either single hung or double hung windows and a few had fixed windows and all have either wood shake shingles or a copper roof with weather vanes and all were pre-wired for whatever hanging light fixture the owners wanted installed. Some were even wired to be used with a remote control for opening the windows.

The cost to build one with four windows and a copper roof would run somewhere between $6,000 and $25,000
dollars depending on the roof being a hip roof or a gable roof.
Some were finished inside with either redwood or a paint able grade of wood.

Building them in my shop was always faster then building them on site but because of the weight involved most had to be built onsite.

The roof framing is the fun part with all the angles.
I think one year I built about 12 for homes just in the Westport, Ct. area.

Jim Hill

 

some I have, ......all will be installed somewhere here this year I hope. All of this rescued by a scrapyard owner over time.

 

this copper sheathed cupola was mounted on an old reform school administration building near Canonsburg Pa. Morganza. supposed to have been restored but it disappeared.

 

my neighbor's barn

 

Looks like something from down South!

 

What are you trying to say Mark? HRP

 

Danny, he probably thinks it was in the south because if it were in the North, it would have been banned as soon as it was erected.

 

he means southern ct [bridgeport]. those bridgwater guys are snobs.

 

one I did for my father

 

one I did for my wife

 

and one just horsing around..

 

This Reproduction will be in the HAMB Classified section in about 3 minutes. If the jockey turns up he goes with it. Bob

 

I meant that in a good way! If you did that in Connecticut someone would steal it.

 

Good point! There is probably a regulation somewhere.

 

And proud of it!

 

I know you well enough to know you were joking,but us Southern guys are know for or eclectic taste in yard art,I suppose the Bridgeport snobs Ted was referring too would classify it as Lawn Sculpture. HRP

 

Not Bridgeport! Bridgewater, and yes we would.

 

here is a cupola my dad restored and a weather vane i built for him.

 

You could have at least put red rims on this for him.

 

Bad pic but 1940's dancing pigs.

 

Old airplane

 

base

 

South if you're in New Hampshire!
Andy lives in Florida 8 months out of the year now that he's retired, but home is Northern Mass.,
It does have kind of a tobacco shed look to it I guess.

 

from the Henry Ford museum.....