Built To Last: The History and Practice of Timber Frame Construction Buildings in the Mohawk Valley
Sat, May 07
|Esperance
Lecture about Dendrochronology as a Tool for Understanding Our Built Culture


Time & Location
May 07, 2022, 2:00 PM
Esperance, 2025 Burtonville Rd, Esperance, NY 12066, USA
About the Event
Presenter: Walter Richard Wheeler
Dedrochronological sampling—a process in which cores of structural elements are taken and dated by correlating them to known patterns of tree growth—is a powerful tool that can be used to help understand the evolution of construction techniques, as well as providing a scientifically-based approach to the dating of particular buildings. This talk will present the results of a group of sampling projects undertaken in the region during the past 16 years, which have served to affirm traditional dates of some of the state’s most famous buildings—and have overturned conventional interpretations for others.
Walter Richard Wheeler is Senior Architectural Historian at Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc., and is President of Hudson-Mohawk Vernacular Architecture (www.hmvarch.org). He has written extensively on the subject of vernacular architecture in New York State.