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March 16, 2022

Hi David, I meant to email you a while back, but the idea just slipped away several times! I mentioned this to your installers in the field, probably a dozen times, but the walls that you all did at MFC are truly exquisite. I guess you have seen them by now, but if not , be sure to run see them…they are remarkable. The work you all did on our MS Library Commission, almost 20 years ago, was wonderful, but this is better -- it is more subtle, and the craft is really quite remarkable -- the shop craft, and the field craft. Everyone involved in shop, in office, in field should all be very proud of this effort. I know -- firsthand -- that efforts such as this one, where architectural constructions cross over into art -- this is like a huge, fine painting -- can really be frustrating…trying to find materials (such as during covid!), get them to Mississippi, the back-and-forth with shop drawings, shop drawing revisions-- all that stuff—can really be nerve wracking, and I really appreciate your patience in all of the details involved in this particular project. I don’t know about you all, but it is pretty rare, for us, to have an opportunity like these walls to come along in Mississippi—the last one we had was MLC, which started in 2001, finishing in late 2005. Other architects may have more opportunities such as this one, but we have not, and that is why the results are particularly thrilling to us. Your walls are really wonderful—they are a wooden mosaic—or maybe a wooden quilt?! Whatever the best analogy may be, you guys did a fantastic job on this project!

Best,

Stan Wagnon, AIA, LEED AP

Principal

BURRIS/WAGNON ARCHITECTS, P.A.

March 14, 2006

Mr. Joel Price

Southeastern Architectural Woodworks

P.O. Box 1747

Brandon, MS 39043

RE:

SHUTTER REPAIR

Dear Joel:

Hurricane Katrina was most unkind to the French Quarter, including the destruction of two

louvered shutters on my Creole Cottage. These items were hand crafted in about 1810 from

virgin Cypress materials. They were badly mangled and some of their parts were lost in the

clean- up of debris. Repair was well beyond my capability and I was not willing to sacrifice these

mortise and tenoned beauties for Home Depot parts or even custom crafted new ones.

My solution was to approach the millwork house that has performed the most quality work for

me in the past, with hope that they had caring craftsmen in the shop. That firm was Southeastern,

and the craftsmen did more than care, They performed miracles, Your instruction to them to

salvage as much of the original wood materials as possible was followed in great detail. Where a

small end was splintered, the bulk of the piece was salvaged and a carefully forged Dutchman

was let into the work, complete with mortises of its own. Where two hundred years of rot had

penetrated an edge, you used careful epoxy filling and sanding to leave a continuous surface that

excludes water and finishes like an original surface.

Joel, this is a beautiful piece of work. I hesitate to cover it with paint to match the original, as it

will obscure the wonderful craftsmanship. I hope that in another hundred years someone will

have occasion to investigate these shutters and appreciate this work. Maybe they will also

say..

."You know they just don't build them like they did back in 2006."

Thanks to you and your staff for a very pleasurable experience.

Sincerely Yours,

Robert P. Adams

Architect

ROBERT PARKER ADAMS