Looking for Antique Heart Pine Beams? Antique Heart Pine Beams are one of Albany Woodworks’ specialties. Reclaimed beams from brick and timber buildings of our country’s recent history. Every beam tells a story. It is not unusual to find lumber marks and age-old slogans under the dust of 100 years. Hand checked beams? Beams with
Albany Woodworks on Preserving our Past, 1978
In 1978, Richard and Judith Woods, founders of Albany Woodworks, reclaim lumber from an 1800’s era barn being demolished in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Looking for quality antique lumber to build his own home from, Richard was inspired by these This was the first of many turn-of-the-century and older buildings being demolished to be salvaged by Albany
Louisiana Antique Cypress: Big Industry, 1911
Antique Cypress and Where it Got It’s Start! The antique cypress we used today got its start from companies like F.B. Williams Cypress Company. Billed as the largest Cypress Mill in the world at the time, this artist’s view of The F.B. Williams Cypress Company at Patterson, Louisiana appeared in AMERICAN LUMBERMAN in 1911. Opened