This Old House

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The Nantucket House - 1
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Air date

Sep 28, 1996

This Old House sets out for Nantucket the classic way, aboard a Streamship Authority vessel. On island, they tour one of our master carpenter's first jobs, a clothing store. Linking up .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 2
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Oct 05, 1996

The crew starts the work day surf casting with local expert David Goodman (and full-time tile contractor) - and even catch a striped bass and a bluefish. At the house, Jock Gifford and .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 3
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Oct 12, 1996

The show starts with a visit to Nantucket's Unitarian Universalist church, a beautiful showcase of restrained New England architecture and trompe l'oeil painting built in 1809. At 3 Milk .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 4
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Oct 19, 1996

Our master carpenter goes lobstering with contractor/lobsterman Pierre Garneau, who has a family license to put out 10 traps. At the house, mason Dan Kissell takes down the unneeded (and .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 5
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Oct 26, 1996

The show starts with a visit to Sankaty Head Light, a Coast Guard property of the exposed Eastern edge of the island. Built in 1850, it like the rest of the houses along the the bluff .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 6
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Nov 02, 1996

The show opens with a little clamming, looking for quahogs at a secret location. At the site, we meet designer Jock Gifford, who uses the model of the house to explain the work going on: .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 7
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Nov 09, 1996

The show begins at Nantucket's Old North Wharf, much of which dates from the early 18th century and site of several small cottages available for rent. At the site, homeowner Kathy McGrew .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 8
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Nov 16, 1996

The show opens at Nantucket's Whaling Museum with curator Mike Jehle. At the site, we see the first of two wells being drilled for the Bentley's ground-source heat pump; they meet an .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 9
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Nov 23, 1996

Before heading over to the job site, we visit the 1827 African Meeting House, a former school, church, and meeting house used by Nantucket's black population until the 1920's and now the .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 10
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Nov 30, 1996

A visit to Nantucket's Life-Saving Museum teaches viewers about a key part of the island's maritime past. Meanwhile, the site is a flurry of subcontractor activity. Mason Dan Kissell .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 11
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Dec 07, 1996

The show begins with a visit to the Wharf Rat Club, a collection of old-timers who gather to chat each morning in a former quahog-sorting shack on Old North Wharf. Then we check out the .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 12
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Dec 14, 1996

Dr. Tim Lepore, the island's leading specialist in tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and babeosis, tells us more about their prevalence here and what can be done to avoid them. At .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 13
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Dec 21, 1996

Realtor Hammie Heard shows us around the Dreamland Theatre, a downtown Nantucket landmark. First a Quaker meeting house, then a straw hat factory, then a roller rink, then part of a .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 14
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Dec 28, 1996

After a ride out to the beach reservation known as Coatue with with Nantucket Conservation Foundation director Jim Lentowski to see both the natural beauty of the preserve and a 1920's .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 15
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Jan 04, 1997

We visit the Nantucket Marine Lab and its director, Rob Garrison, to see efforts of augment the islande's scallop population. At the house, Bruce Killen tells us that the Historic .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 16
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Jan 11, 1997

Our master carpenter boards the fishing boat of Capt. Tom Mleczko in search of the mighty striped bass and hooks one on his first cast. Fresh from his triumph, he arrives on the job to .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 17
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Jan 18, 1997

After a visit to the Milestone Cranberry Bog in time for the October harvest, viewers meet up with Bruce Killen who discusses the punch list - it looks like the project will not quite be .. show full overview

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The Nantucket House - 18
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Jan 25, 1997

The crew starts off the last Nantucket show up to their chest in water, harvesting the succulent bay scallop. At the house, the final rush is on. Our master carpenter sees a wallbed unit .. show full overview

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The Tucson House - 1
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Feb 01, 1997

This Old House hits Tucson, Arizona, for an eight-part winter project: the renovation and and expansion of Jim and Colleen Meigs' 1930 Pueblo Revival home. After an overview of Tucson's .. show full overview

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The Tucson House - 2
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Feb 08, 1997

The show opens at Casa Cordova, one of the last remaining pieces of early Tucson. Built in 1848 within the original presido (""walled fort"") walls, the Casa is now preserved as part of .. show full overview

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The Tucson House - 3
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Feb 15, 1997

The show opens with a hike in the natural splendor of Sabino Canyon, in the northern foothills of Tucson. At the house, a crew prepares and pours a colored and scored concrete floor, a .. show full overview

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The Tucson House - 4
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Feb 22, 1997

An early moring breakfast at a tradtional Mexican restaurant prepares the crew for a job site abuzz with traditional handwork and products, as well as state-of-the-art technology. .. show full overview

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The Tucson House - 5
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Mar 01, 1997

The show opens with a visit to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where the natural-looking environments are the result of painstaking human artistry, including the casting and .. show full overview

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The Tucson House - 6
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Air date

Mar 08, 1997

Before heading to the job site, we pay a visit to the Air Force's AMARC, a vast collection of mothballed aircraft preserved in the Tucson desert for use as parts, for storage, or for .. show full overview

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The Tucson House - 7
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Air date

Mar 15, 1997

After a trip downtown to Tucson's Hotel Congress, built in 1919 and the site of John Dillinger's hideout back in 1934, we return to the Meigs' house, concrete pavers are laying the .. show full overview

18x26 Season finale
The Tucson House - 8
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Air date

Mar 22, 1997

As the Tucson project enters its final days, our host takes viewers to Biosphere 2 in nearby Oracle. Site of two experiments in self-sustained living, Biosphere 2 is now part of Columbia .. show full overview

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Characters

Self - Host (1979-1989)

Self - Host (1989-2003)

Self - Host (2003–present)

Self - Master Carpenter (1979–present)

Self - Carpenter

Self - General Contractor (1986–present)

Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert (1979–present)

Self - Landscape Contractor (1988–2019)

Self - Landscape Contractor (2020-present)

Self - Mason (2011-present)

Self - Builder

Self - Builder (2018-present)

Self - Painting Contractor (2010-present)

Self - Home Technology Expert

Herself

Self - Electrical Contractor

Self - Electrician

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