March Magazine Madness!
March was a big month for reclaimed wood flooring and the newsstand! Four of our floors made it to the glossy pages of two home and design magazines, Maine Home + Design, and Old House Journal’s New Old House.
Crocker Manufacturing
HOLYOKE, MA ~ 1871 Sited between Holyoke’s third level canal and the Connecticut River, Crocker Manufacturing’s historic mill was a paper manufacturing behemoth capable of producing 50,000 pounds of paper in a single day. A family-operated paper company for much of its manufacturing tenure, the Crocker Manufacturing Company was organized in 1871 by Daniel P. … Read More
Mt. Tom Paper
Holyoke, MA ~ 1878 At one point capable of producing 24,000 pounds of product each day, the Mt. Tom Paper Company’s mill churned out paper along the Connecticut River for decades, meeting its final demise at the hands of massive fire in 2013.
New Recycling Equipment
We installed a new (recycled) grinding system at our Berwick, Maine mill this week, enabling us to recycle more of our waste than ever before.
Amoskeag Mill No. 12 Annex
Manchester, NH ~ 1891 Built in 1889, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company’s Mill No. 11 was, at one point, the largest cotton manufacturing plant in the world. The 1891 Mill No. 12 Annex, attached via second-story bridge to Mill No. 11, runs along I-293 in Manchester, New Hampshire. The massive structure was impressively overbuilt with huge … Read More
About Hand-Hewn Beams
Before the proliferation of the sawmill, hand-hewing was the long, hard road to a square structural timber. As American settlers pushed westward into previously unoccupied forested territory, they cleared land for homes and early agricultural buildings. The process, although time-consuming and labor-intensive, was necessary, as sawmills were often too far from their settled plots of … Read More
DIY: Reclaimed Walnut Headboard
Longleaf Lumber employee Broc Harzinski built this one-of-a-kind headboard using reclaimed walnut. Broc hand-selected his reclaimed wood from our Motley Walnut special, using it for the darker tones and the contrast delivered by slight sapwood content. The special skip-planed walnut boards were milled by Longleaf as flooring, so the boards were surfaced and cut with … Read More
Slow Growth & Fast Food
This East Harlem fast food restaurant re-thinks sustainability by building with recycled woods and becoming the first LEED gold certified restaurant in New York City.
Salvaged Redwood Slab Table
It’s been amazing to watch customers turn our salvaged redwood slabs into tables, bars, counters, and other incredible pieces of furniture. Michael Landberg from Landberg Designs is one such customer. Working on a commission referred to him by local Cambridge furniture store Reside, Michael left our warehouse with a raw redwood slab, which he … Read More
Quincy Masonic Temple
Quincy, MA ~ 1926 Designed by well-known Boston architects J. Williams Beal & Sons, construction of this Masonic temple was completed in 1926.