Hi Karl Mulac:
Thanks for your comments, and glad to be able to add some additional info to your tool box, on top of Roger's great entry.
The description of your historical reconstruction project brings back many fond memories of reconstruction projects that I planned and executed up here at Upper Canada village. Our planning of each project included researching and locating a surviving example if at all possible, we then documented it, and had a set of plans produced and put in our archives to back up our every move from that point on. We would obtain the proper type of wood that corresponded with the original framing, hewed it on site, and then framed it, using only the old tools of the period, in this way we could nearly match the finish look of the historic building being used.
What a wonderful feeling it is to see the building slowly take shape exhibiting its new cladding which no doubt it had in the beginning. We could also say that we were preserving part of our heritage especially the particular building style used at that time.
You say that it will be a print shop, and in that regard it probably will be a fairly large structure, with many windows, verandah, and a retail front area, a work area, and also needed will be an area to dry the freshly printed papers--(how far out am I?)---
We have a early 18th century print shop up here
that is two storied, the wall framing being filled with split cedar logs and lime mortar, covered with split lath and roughly plastered, the bottom level is in two sections, and the top is used exclusively for drying and storage
GREAT PROJECT!!!
NH