This was published in the newspaper. In case you can't read the article-it reads as follows: "The junior and senior carpenters are currently in the process of building a 2200 square foot house in Gloucester. The house is located at 9 Ashland Place. It is a two story Colonial style, featuring three bedrooms (cathedral ceiling in the master bedroom) two and one half bathrooms, and a walk-out basement. This project began in late August (1999)with the foundation in place. The North Shore Tech carpenters have completed the rough framing, roofing, and interior petitions and have begun exterior trim and siding." The reason it took so long to build is A) Mr. Bernards sheer stupidity. B) We're students C) All the seniors except for Gideon arent bright enough to pass arithmetic, let alone tie their shoes. D)Ricky Hart, Tim Marquis, Brian Newman and Paul Gorman-Need I say more? E) We have a 6 day rotation-so we're only working at the jobsite half the year, and the rest, we're in class.

This is the front left side of the house. All the siding on the first floor Tom and I put up, and Tom, Mat, Ryan, and I put in all the windows on the first floor. Tom and I put up all the cornerboards on the entire house, the trim on the gable ends were put on during rough framing by pretty much everybody. The trim on the porch was done mostly by Holli and Mat or Tom and I. As you see the difference in coloration of the clapboards-its just primer, it'll be painted over anyways.

Here is a view of the scaffolding on the back, the only side of the house Tom and I didnt put up any siding. This is the infamous chimney that was such a pain. First the owner wanted it on the back. Then before construction he decides, he wanted it on the side you see here. We frame for a chimney-and he decides he doesnt want a chimney at all! So we build in the areas we had cut out, and built a double wall in the basement. Then when schools about to end he decides yeah he wants a chimney-but he doesnt want it to go all the way down to the ground, so Duffy has to cut out chunks of the wall and the floor joists and stand on basically nothing to build this chimney that wasnt worth the trouble. Duffy is standing up in the black sweatshirt. The blue blob on his knees next to Duffy is Bernard. Sitting on the Chimney slops in a black sweatshirt and beige pants is Lingren. Ryan is in a T-shirt leaning over them. BTW, this is the dumpster Ryan was standing in (Battle Page)

This is the Kitchen, I really should have taken pictures BEFORE the drywall was up-but no, I didnt bother. SIGH. To the left of the picture, theres a sliding door, an interior petition with a doorway into the living room, and another sliding door. Due to the lateness of all these photos, I didnt get a picture of any framing. I appologize.

This is the living room from that doorway with the sliding doors at my back. The double window you see is the one in the front-the one in the newspaper article (firstfloor) The guy who did all the hardwood flooring was wicked quiet and wicked old and wicked fast.

Heres a shot of the grooved knotty pine Tom and I put up. You can see from the dark triangle corner that it's not finished yet. We ran out of wood, and we had to measure and cut around the light fixtures-PAIN IN THE ARSE! The trim along the porch deck and porch roof Tom and I put up, the trim along the poles mostly Holli and Mat did, although two were done my Tom, Mat and I.

Heres the unfinished section of knotty pine. The picture is actually on its right side, but I thought you might figure the 'L' shape of the porch out better with the picture this way. See the door and wondow? Try to figure it all out-I dare ya!

The stairs down to the front door (directly in front of the stairway. The corner of window you see is the main front window in the news article-if that helps any.

The basement. Now this stair points towards the front end of the house, and is directly under the other staircase, so this wall is the inside view of the left side of the house (with all the scaffolding) This is the double basement wall that Holli and I put up.

This is the right side of the house-directly under the porch overhang is the area of siding that gave us the most trouble-because Mike Firmani did it, and didnt bother looking at the story pole, and it messed EVERYTHING up. It looks okay in this shot, but the reveal goes somethng like this 3 1/4" then 4 1/2", 4 1/4", 3 1/4", 3 7/8", 4"-no order at all! As politely as I can say this-MIKE IS A MORON

This is the main section of the master bedroom, it extends farther back into a large bathroom with a jacuzzi and walk-in closet. This is the catherdral ceiling-oooo ahhhh, whoopty do and all that jazz.

This is the back left corner of the house. The side with the scaffolding-that is the only side that Tom and I didnt put up any clapboards. The sliding door you see here, Tom and I put up. Incase I didnt mention it earlier-We're partners, throughout the year we've been assigned to work as a team. Some of the guys switched around, others always worked together, like Mat and Holli always worked together. Lingren and Duffy always worked together, Tim, Eric, Gorman, Brian, Ricky, and Ryan floated around. Lingrens walking on the ground, Tyans leaning forward, and I cant see who's in the middle.

Mat's the big guy with the orange sleeves. Tom is the one whose face you can't see, the one swinging a hammer. Notive the knotty pine boards under the eves, Tom and I had been working on those, only to run out of wood, and Monihan didnt deliver until a few days later. Holli was absent. The clapboarding you see Tom and I put up-they've only been primed, not finish painted. That window-again Tom, Mat, Ryan and I put in.

Another shot of the scaffolding, the black shirt on the left-thats Newman. The white shirt is Ryan. THe black sweatshirt and blue jeans is Scott Duffy, Bernards in the light blue shirt, the legs next to him is probably Eric, Lingrens to the left of Eric-again sitting on the chimney slope.