The Story of

We have been working on The House since 1973. In those 8 years, we've discovered that by recycling old building material we can not only preserve them, but we can keep our building costs down as well. Since many of these materials were gotten at minimal cost, or for barter, or even free, it means we can create the most interesting environment for the least amount of money.

The first thing we did 8 years ago was to take the building (originally a 2-family house much like its neighbor) and gut it out to create the huge open space above the main dining room. The red beams you see overhead are the original floor joists of the house. The dining room floor is a good example of how we recycle parts of older buildings. It was originally the basketball court and auditorium floor of the Russell School in Cambridge built around the turn of the century. The red and black designs are the original court lines.

Knowing how much people enjoy eating outdoors, we built the front deck. The deck is constructed of timbers from the B.F. Goodrich Watertown Arsenal Complex. The timbers weigh 480 pounds apiece, and each one had to be set in place by hand. The deck was so popular that a year later we decided to close it in. We used 1/4" standard sheets of plexiglass for the job. Plexiglass is a much better insulator than glass and the sheets could be bent by hand and set into grooves in the roof beams to form the arched panels that you see. The final touch was the Danish fireplace which we hung by chains so the entire dining room could view and enjoy the fire.

As business increased our tiny kitchen soon became inadequate for us. A new kitchen was built around the old structure, then the old walls were removed from the inside. Working like this we never had to close a single day for construction.

The next big project was building the bar downstairs. Before we could even begin, the entire floor level had to be lowered a foot. This took 5 months of hand digging through hard clay. The bar walls were built from coblestones rescued from the old City Square in Charlestown, and the floor was made of tiles from the roof of Police Station 8 in the North End. A local mason laid the floor and constructed the wonderful cobblestone arches. To make the bar as comfortable and relaxing as the dining room, we added a fireplace just like the one upstairs.

After the bar opened we turned to the outside of the building. We removed the siding the exposed tghe rough horizontal boarding underneath. This rough "barnboard" was matched and re-aligned vertically to become the "new" siding. At this time we also built the side porch. The narrow lathing we found under the original walls provided the perfect material for the trellis-work on the side porch and in the dining room. The huge church windows were salvaged from St. Mary's in the North End. The large ones weigh one and a half tons. They were built of pine about 170 years ago by craftsmen imported from Italy for the job. We had had the windows for nearly a year before using them; this shows how we often collect interesting materials knowing that something can t designed around them later.

Just when it seemed that building might slow down, we heard that the Kitchenette Diner was closing after 43 years of business on the same spot in Cambridge. We knew right away that the diner would be a great addition to the restaurant. On a sweltering Saturday in July of 1978 we brought the diner over from Cambridge pulled part of the way by horses and loaded on a flatbed truck the rest of the way. No sooner did we get. the diner here when we got a call from the people who were filming the movie about the Brink's Robbery. They needed an old diner for a scene in the film, so we hauled the diner over to Reading so it could become a movie star. After a lot work restoring the oak cabinets and window frmaes and re-siding the exterior, we opened the diner to sell Emack and Bolio's ice cream last summer.

Our newest projects are the new music room behind the bar, and the lot on the corner of Wilton and Cambridge Streets. Up until now the lot bas been an ugly abandoned gas station. We've built a fence of cargo slings and milk boxes and begun planting. Eventually we hope to create a park and outdoor dining area. Added to the landscaping we've already done on Wilton Street (trees and flowering shrubs), we hope to create a new and dramatic focal point for the Allston Square area.

THE HOUSE

Tony Bosco

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