The Whitelaw Reid House is a historic residence near the village of Cedarville in Greene County , Ohio , United States . Built in the early nineteenth century, it was home to a prominent American journalist, and it has been named a historic site .
12-513: The Reid House is a weatherboarded structure with a tiled roof. The present form of the house makes it an example of the Queen Anne style , although it has been substantially remodeled since its original construction in 1823. More ornate than the exterior is the interior of the house: the main stairway and some of the rooms feature decorative panelling and numerous other handcrafted wooden elements, and various types of wood can be found throughout
24-630: A set of complementary, interlocking profiles in two pieces of wood , which are then glued . The cross-section of the joint resembles the interlocking of fingers between two hands, hence the name "finger joint". The sides of each profile increases the surface area for gluing, resulting in a strong bond, stronger than a butt joint but not very visually appealing. Finger joints are regularly confused with box joints , which are used for corners of boxes or box-like constructions. Finger joints are generally created by using identical profiles for both pieces. They are made complementary by rotation or translation of
36-742: Is a word for long, thin boards used to cover walls and (formerly) roofs of buildings. Historically, it has also been called clawboard and cloboard . In the United Kingdom , Australia and New Zealand , the term weatherboard is always used. An older meaning of "clapboard" is small split pieces of oak imported from Germany for use as barrel staves, and the name is a partial translation (from klappen , "to fit") of Middle Dutch klapholt and related to German Klappholz . Clapboards were originally riven radially by hand producing triangular or "feather-edged" sections, attached thin side up and overlapped thick over thin to shed water. Later,
48-465: Is always referred to as weatherboard in New Zealand. Newer, cheaper designs often imitate the form of clapboard construction as siding made of vinyl ( uPVC ), aluminum , fiber cement , or other man-made materials. These materials can provide a lightweight alternative to wooden cladding. Finger joint A finger joint , also known as a comb joint , is a woodworking joint made by cutting
60-734: Is rotated 5 ⁄ 8 inch (16 mm) until it has turned 360°. This gives the radially sawn clapboard its taper and true vertical grain. Flat-grain clapboards are cut tangent to the annual growth rings of the tree. As this technique was common in most parts of the British Isles , it was carried by immigrants to their colonies in the Americas and in Australia and New Zealand . Flat-sawn wood cups more and does not hold paint as well as radially sawn wood. Chamferboards are an Australian form of weatherboarding using tongue-and-groove joints to link
72-618: The 1892 presidential election . During his years of living in the house, Reid greatly modified the house, and as a result it has been deemed a fine example of changing tastes in architectural styles. In 1973, the Reid House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . While it qualified for the Register simply because of its architecture, its importance was largely derived from its close association with Whitelaw Reid. Since 1974,
84-492: The British Isles, and the style may be part of all types of traditional building, from cottages to windmills, shops to workshops, as well as many others. In New Zealand, clapboard housing dominates buildings before 1960. Clapboard, with a corrugated iron roof, was found to be a cost-effective building style. After the big earthquakes of 1855 and 1931, wooden buildings were perceived as being less vulnerable to damage. Clapboard
96-527: The Reid House is the home of Mike DeWine , who is currently the Ohio Governor , as well as a former Ohio Attorney General and former US Senator. Weatherboarding Clapboard ( / ˈ k l æ b ə r d / ), also called bevel siding , lap siding , and weatherboard , with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping. Clapboard , in modern American usage,
108-441: The boards together to give a flatter external appearance than regular angled weatherboards. Some modern clapboards are made up of shorter pieces of wood finger jointed together with an adhesive. In North America clapboards were historically made of split oak, pine and spruce. Modern clapboards are available in red cedar and pine. In some areas, clapboards were traditionally left as raw wood, relying upon good air circulation and
120-462: The boards were radially sawn in a type of sawmill called a clapboard mill , producing vertical-grain clapboards. The more commonly used boards in New England are vertical-grain boards. Depending on the diameter of the log, cuts are made from 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (110 to 170 mm) deep along the full length of the log. Each time the log turns for the next cut, it
132-603: The house. Due to their location on a small country road, southwest of Cedarville, the house and surrounding farm appear to be little changed from their appearance in the nineteenth century. The house was the birthplace and longtime home of Whitelaw Reid , a nationally known journalist, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom , and Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States under Benjamin Harrison in
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#1732869011038144-431: The use of 'semi-hardwoods' to keep the boards from rotting. These boards eventually go grey as the tannins are washed out from the wood. More recently clapboard has been tarred or painted—traditionally black or white due to locally occurring minerals or pigments. In modern clapboard these colors remain popular, but with a hugely wider variety due to chemical pigments and stains. Clapboard houses may be found in most parts of
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